PROGRAMA 2012. EXAMEN

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PROSA Y FICCIÓN DE LOS EEUU II (1850-1950)
Dra. Isabel Durán
PROGRAM 2012-13
1. REGIONALISM AND LOCAL-COLOR WRITING:
o NEW ENGLAND: Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930),
o THE SOUTH: Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
o THE MIDWEST: Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
2. AMERICAN HUMOR AND THE RISE OF THE WEST:
o Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens, 1835-1910).
3. AMERICAN REALISM:
o Henry James (1843-1916)
o Edith Wharton (1862-1937).
4. NATURALISM:
o Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
5. "THE AMERICAN CENTURY" (1900-1945)
Modernisms:
o Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961),
o Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940).
Realist Novelists:
o John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
The Southern Renaissance
o William Faulkner (1897-1962)
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LIST OF COMPULSORY READINGS
1. Regionalism and Local-Color Writing:
- Mary Wilkins Freeman:
A New England Nun (short story)
The Revolt of Mother (short story).
- Kate Chopin, The Awakening
2. American Humor and the rise of the West:
- Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3. Realism:
- Henry James: Daisy Miller (Novelette)
- Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome (novelette)
4. Naturalism:
- Stephen Crane: Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
5. "The American Century" (1900-1945)
- John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath.
- Ernest Hemingway: Fiesta: The Sun also Rises
- Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. REFERENCE WORKS AND ANTHOLOGIES
Baym, Franklin et al. (eds).The Norton Anthology of American Literature (vol 7.). New
York; Norton.
Brooks, C., Lewis, R.W. and Warren, R.P (eds.) American Literature: The Makers and the Makings (vol 2.)
New York: St. Martin's Press.
Lauter, Paul (ed.) The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 5 vols.
Hart, James. The Oxford Companion to American Literature. London: OUP.
Leinninger, Hart, The Oxford Companion to American Literature. OUP.
II. LITERARY HISTORIES
Bercovitch, Sacvan. (ed). The Cambridge History of American Literature. CUP, 1994, etc.
Conn, Peter. Literatura Norteamericana. Madrid: Cambridge UP, 1998
Cunliffe, Marcus. The Literature of the United States. London: Penguin (1954)
Elliott, Emory (ed.) The Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia U. P., 1988
Ford, Boris (ed.) American Literature: a Guide for Readers. The New Pelikan Guide to English Literature,
Vol. 9. London: Pelican Books.
Gurpegui, José Antonio (ed.); vv.aa., Historia Crítica de la Novela Norteamericana. Salamanca: Almar,
2001.
Lee, Brian. American Fiction 1865-1940. Longman, 1987.
Perez Gállego, Cándido. Historia de la Literatura Norteamericana. Madrid: Taurus, 1988.
Ruland, R. and Bradbury, M. From Puritanism to Postmodernism. London: Penguin, 1991.
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Spiller, Robert. Literary History of the United States (3 vols). New York: MacMillan, 1967.
Stauffer, D. Short History of American Poetry. New York: Dutton, 1974.
Walker, Marshall. The Lit. of the United States of America.London: Macmilan, 1983.
III. ESTUDIOS CRÍTICOS (GENERAL)
Baym, Nina. Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820- 1870. Ithaca,
Cornell UP, 1978.
Beaty, Jerome. New Worlds of Literature. New York: Norton, 1994.
Berthoff, Warner. The Ferment of Realism. American Literature, 1884-1919. New York: Free Press, 1965.
Bewley, Marius. Eccentric Design: Form in the Classis American Novel. New York: Columbia UP, 1959.
Bradbury, M. The Modern American Novel. OUP, 1952.
----- Dangerous Pilgrimages: Transatlantic Mythologies and the Novel. New York: Viking, 1995.
Cady, Edwin. Light of Common Day: Realism in American Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1971.
Chase, R. The American Novel and its Tradition. New York: Garden City, 1957.
Coy, Javier y Juan José. La anarquía y el orden. Madrid: Ed. Porrúa, 1976.
Cunliffe, Marcus. The Literature of the United States. Penguin, 1970.
Cowley, Malcolm. A Second Flowering. New York: Viking, 1973.
Delbanco, Andrew, Required Reading: Why our American Classics matter Now. New York: Farrar, 1997.
Feidelson, Charles. Symbolism and American Literature. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1953.
Fiedler, L. Love and death in the American Novel. New York: Stein and Day, 1966.
Fisher, Philip. Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel. New York and Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1985.
Fussell, Edwin. Frontier: American Literature and the American West. Princeton UP, 1961.
Gilmore, Michael. American Romanticism and the Marketplace. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1985.
Girgus, Sam. Law of the Heart: Individualism and the Modern self in Am. Lit. U. of Texas P., 1979
Hoffman, D. Form and Fable in American Fiction. New York: OUP, 1961.
Howard, Leon. Literature and the American Tradition. New York: Doubleday, 1960.
Johnson, Nan. Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America. Carbondale, IL: South Illinois UP, 1991.
Jones, Howard. The Theory of American Literature. Cornell U. Press, 1965.
Kazin, Alfred. On Native Grounds: an Interpretation of American Prose Literature. New York: Harcourt,
1942.
Kaul, A.N. American Vision: Actual and Ideal Society in Nineteenth Century Fiction. Yale UP, 1963.
Kolb, Harold. Illusion of Life: American Realism as a Literary Form. UP of Virginia, 1970.
Lauter, Paul, From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park: Activism, Culture and American Studies. Duke UP,
2001.
Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. London: Penguin, 1923.
Lewis, R. American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy and Tradition in the 19th century. Chicago UP, 1959.
Martin, Jay. Harvest of Change: American Literature 1865-1914. N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1967.
Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral ideal. OUP, 1964.
Michaels, Walter Benn. Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: AmericanLit at the Turn of the
Century. Berkeley: U of california P, 1987.
Pérez-Gállego, Cándido. Literatura Norteamericana: una visión crítica. Palas Atenea, 1992.
-----, El Héroe solitario en la novela norteamericana. Madrid: Prensa española, 1966.
Pizer, D. Realism and Naturalism in 19th century American Literature. Illinois UP, 1984.
Poirier, R. World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature. OUP, 1966.
Sundquist, Eric. Home as Found: Authority and Genealogy in 19th-C American Literature. John Hopkins
UP, 1979.
---- AmericanRealism: New Essays. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 1982.
Todorov, Tzvetan. Conquest of America: the Question of the Other. New York: harper, 1984.
Wagenknecht, edward. Cavalcade of the AmericanNovel: From the Birth of the Nation to the Middle of the
Twentieth Century. New York: Holt, 1952.
Walcutt, C. American Literary Naturalism: a Divided Stream. Minneapolis UP, 1956.
Wellek, René, A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950: 8 vols.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
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1981 [1955]
Wilson, Edmund. Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War. OUP, 1962
RECURSOS ELECTRÓNICOS
Internet ofrece valiosas fuentes de información para el estudio de esta asignatura. Utilizando cualquier
buscador, se puede encontrar abundante información acerca de las corrientes literarias y los autores
analizados. Se recomiendan especialmente las siguientes direcciones:
-- http://www.liceus.com (BIBLIOTECA VIRTUAL E-EXCELLENCE)
Es un Portal de humanidades, en continuo crecimiento. Hay un portal específico sobre Literaturas
extranjeras (Literatura Inglesa, Norteamericana, Francesa y Alemana). Hay ya colgados varios temas
críticos sobre Literatura Norteamericana. Muy útil, porque participan los grandes especialistas españoles
en la literatura norteamericana, algunos de ellos profesores vuestros de la UCM. Coordinadores: Isabel
Durán (UCM) y J. A. Gurpegui (U. Alcalá)
-- http://www.wwnorton.com/naal
Norton Websource to American Literature. An Online Companion to the Norton
Anthology of American Literature (Updated with every new edition)
http://www.america.gov/publications/books/outline-of-american-literature.html
VAN SPANCKEREN, Kathryn, Outline of American Literature
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2739
Voice of the Shuttle: American Literature. Directs you to all sorts of valuable links
-- http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html
American Authors on the Web
-- http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
Schomburgh Center for Research in Black Culture
--- http://books.wwnorton.com/studyspace/disciplines/literature.aspx?DiscId=7
Norton Study Spaces. Offers valuable links to all sorts of literary ideas, exercises, research and study
guides, etc.
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/litweb10/welcome.aspx
(The Norton Introduction to Literature: Writing About Literature
--- http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/
The University of North Carolina Writing Center: Writing About Literature
-- http://www.literarydictionary.com
CLARK, ROBERT. Es un diccionario literario con todo tipo de entradas sobre literatura en lengua
inglesa. Muy útil. Requiere subscripción de pago