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Présentation
CM (1 h, G. Preher): Survey of American Literature
This course is a survey of American literature from its beginnings to the 1920s. Focusing on the cultural background of the Puritan heritage, with the experience of wilderness and the democratic experiment in mind, we will study the awakening of a self-consciously American literary sensibility and follow some of its transformations in several works by major writers.
TD (1h, G. Preher): After a brief introduction to various methodological approaches, the course will focus intensively on the practical aspects of reading literary texts: recognizing images and symbols, interpreting figures of speech, identifying narrative functions, etc., and move on as the semester progresses to writing textual commentaries in English.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925. Ed. Penguin Popular Classics.
-- Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” (1819-1820).
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” (1835).
-- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Oval Portrait” (1842).
-- Kate Chopin, “Désirée’s Baby” (1893).
-- Henry James “The Figure in the Carpet” (1896).
-- Willa Cather, “A Wagner Matinee” (1904).
-- Sherwood Anderson, “Godliness,” taken from Winesburg, Ohio (1919).
Modalités
24 heures
Ressources
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