Historia Literaria VII: Reading List* 2012-1
Basic text: Norton Anthology of American Literature
Background: Reading as a Colonial: The Tempest (Shakespeare); The Book of Common Prayer
Core Text: Herman Melville. Moby Dick (Active discussion throughout the semester)
Beginnings, Quest for Sense of Self: Writer/Text/Reader
1. Myths of Creation and Invention:
‘Stories of the Beginning of the World’: Creation Myths. [Choose 3 from required text]
John Smith. From ‘The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles’
2. Colonial Encounters (Early Puritans, Autobiography and Travel Writing):
William Bradford. Extracts from Of Plymouth Plantation: ‘The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation in England, 1550-1607’, ‘Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal’ and ‘Of Their Departure from Leydon [Mr. Robinson=s Letter]’
John Winthrop. ‘A Model of Christian Charity’; selections: The Journal of John Winthrop
Anne Bradstreet. ‘The Author to Her Book’/ ‘The Prologue’ + one more of our choice; ‘Meditations Divine and Moral to My Dear Children’
Mary Rowlandson. ‘A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson’
Sarah Kemble Knight. ‘The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York’ (extracts)
3. The Middle Passage: Slave Narratives
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney: ‘To the First Slave Ship’ (an introductory poem)
Olaudah Equiano. ‘The Interesting Narrative of the Live of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself’ (extracts)
Harriet Jacobs. ‘Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl’ (extracts)
4. Rights/Independence: Outsiders and Insiders
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. ‘Letter III. What Is an American.’ ‘Letter IX. Description of Charles-Town’
Thomas Paine: From ‘Common Sense’
Thomas Jefferson. ‘The Declaration of Independence’ + ‘Autobiography’ (extracts)
Judith Sargent Murray. ‘On the Equality of the Sexes’ (one poem)
Phillis Wheatley. ‘On Being Brought from Africa to America’, ‘To S. M.., A Young African Painter ...’, ‘To His Excellency George Washington’, or others
The Cherokee Memorials [of 3 dates running from 1829-1830]
Sojourner Truth: ‘I Am a Woman’s Rights’
Literary Renaissance: Postcolonial Aesthetics?
D. H. Lawrence. ‘The Spirit of Place’
Washington Irving. ‘The Author=s Account of Himself’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle’
James Fenimore Cooper. ‘[The Literature and the Arts of the United States]’
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. ‘A Sage Conversation’
Nathaniel Hawthorne. ‘Preface’, The House of Seven Gables
_________________. The Scarlet Letter and ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’
Hermann Melville. ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street’.
E. A. Poe. ‘The Philosophy of Composition’/ ‘The Poetic Principle’ and one story
R. W. Emerson. ‘Self-Reliance’ and Letters
H .D. Thoreau. ‘Resistance to Civil Government’
M. Fuller. Extracts from The Great Lawsuit
Walt Whitman. ‘Preface to Leaves of Grass’/ ‘Song of Myself’/ ‘When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom’d’/ ‘To a Locomotive in Winter’
Rebecca Harding Davis. ‘Life in the Iron Mills’
Emily Dickinson. A selection of her poetry (3 poems)
*This list may change depending on the students’ interests. Please try to read Moby Dick before the semester begins.
Grading system. This is based equally on individual presentations, active and critical class participation and written coursework (essays and/or exam): a pass mark is required in each area.
Please remember: a) Plagiarism or failure to recognise sources in all areas is
prohibited and will be severely punished.
b) Anyone who has not passed English VI should NOT take this class
without permission.
viernes, 12 de agosto de 2011
viernes, 10 de junio de 2011
Silence or Utterance?: The Program
LUNES 13 DE JUNIO:
16:00-16:45
“Technical Issues First” (modera Alfonso Fernández)
“The Art of Fiction Controversy between Henry James and Walter Besant” - Jorge López
"Art and Fiction in S. Sontag and H. James" - Ulises Ramírez
"Modernist before Modernism" - Diego Prado
16:45-17:30
"A Writer Belongs Somewhere, Doesn't She?" (modera Gabriela Domínguez)
"Social Crossways" - Pablo González
"Social Roles of Women in the Short Story 'A Jury of Her Peers' and in The Awakening" - Brenda Rivera
"Refusing to Take Seriously the Social Form: Looking for Freedom" - Alfonso Fernández
RECESO
17:30-18:15
"Foreign Ethnicities Inside the Same Society" - Rebeca Ruiz
"The Consequences of the Standarization Process in Two Short Stories" - Martha Reguera
"The Harlem Renaissance: Opposing Views on the Subject of Race" - Dennis Peña
18:15-19:00
“The Non-American ‘American Dream’” (modera Brenda Rivera)
“Different Perspectives of the ‘American Dream’” - Paola Rivas
"Otherness and the Fulfilment of the American Dream" - Carlos Ramírez
"The Fragile Fantasy of the American Dream: The Deconstruction of an Ideology throughout the Deconstruction of the Identity" - Jorge Sánchez
MARTES 14 DE JUNIO:
16:00-16:45
"Language and Ideas: Deconstruction Time Again" (modera Claudia Montes de Oca)
"Two Ways of Looking at the Modernist Blackbird: Images from Stevens and Williams" - Michael García
"Homosexual Desire and the Impossibility of Speech in ‘Queer’ and ‘The Good Anna’" - Hipatia Argüero
"The Road of the Dead: A Comparative Essay between the Novels As I Lay Dying and The Road" - Liliana Martínez
16:45-17:45
"Inside a Woman's Mind (and What Alice Found There)" (modera Nora García)
"The Fallen Angel" - Sofía Prado
“Woomanhood and the Absent Woman” - Alejandra Ruiz
"A Feminist Analysis: The Struggle of Living in a Male Dominated Society in The Yellow Wallpaper and 'A Jury of Her Peers'" - Rubén Rodríguez
"Suicide? Madness?" - Brenda Cortés
RECESO
17:45-19:00
"The Making of Oneself (in Relation to...)" (modera Alejandra Ruiz)
"The Struggle for Power in The Aspern Papers and ‘Ethan Frome’” - Gabriela Domínguez
"The Importance of the Past and Memories" - Claudia Montes de Oca
"The Good Neighbor in ‘Neighbor Rosicky’ and ‘Ethan Frome’” - Sara Silva
"Different Kinds of Awakening in Two Texts" - Nora García
Título pendiente - Sebastián Ocampo
16:00-16:45
“Technical Issues First” (modera Alfonso Fernández)
“The Art of Fiction Controversy between Henry James and Walter Besant” - Jorge López
"Art and Fiction in S. Sontag and H. James" - Ulises Ramírez
"Modernist before Modernism" - Diego Prado
16:45-17:30
"A Writer Belongs Somewhere, Doesn't She?" (modera Gabriela Domínguez)
"Social Crossways" - Pablo González
"Social Roles of Women in the Short Story 'A Jury of Her Peers' and in The Awakening" - Brenda Rivera
"Refusing to Take Seriously the Social Form: Looking for Freedom" - Alfonso Fernández
RECESO
17:30-18:15
"Foreign Ethnicities Inside the Same Society" - Rebeca Ruiz
"The Consequences of the Standarization Process in Two Short Stories" - Martha Reguera
"The Harlem Renaissance: Opposing Views on the Subject of Race" - Dennis Peña
18:15-19:00
“The Non-American ‘American Dream’” (modera Brenda Rivera)
“Different Perspectives of the ‘American Dream’” - Paola Rivas
"Otherness and the Fulfilment of the American Dream" - Carlos Ramírez
"The Fragile Fantasy of the American Dream: The Deconstruction of an Ideology throughout the Deconstruction of the Identity" - Jorge Sánchez
MARTES 14 DE JUNIO:
16:00-16:45
"Language and Ideas: Deconstruction Time Again" (modera Claudia Montes de Oca)
"Two Ways of Looking at the Modernist Blackbird: Images from Stevens and Williams" - Michael García
"Homosexual Desire and the Impossibility of Speech in ‘Queer’ and ‘The Good Anna’" - Hipatia Argüero
"The Road of the Dead: A Comparative Essay between the Novels As I Lay Dying and The Road" - Liliana Martínez
16:45-17:45
"Inside a Woman's Mind (and What Alice Found There)" (modera Nora García)
"The Fallen Angel" - Sofía Prado
“Woomanhood and the Absent Woman” - Alejandra Ruiz
"A Feminist Analysis: The Struggle of Living in a Male Dominated Society in The Yellow Wallpaper and 'A Jury of Her Peers'" - Rubén Rodríguez
"Suicide? Madness?" - Brenda Cortés
RECESO
17:45-19:00
"The Making of Oneself (in Relation to...)" (modera Alejandra Ruiz)
"The Struggle for Power in The Aspern Papers and ‘Ethan Frome’” - Gabriela Domínguez
"The Importance of the Past and Memories" - Claudia Montes de Oca
"The Good Neighbor in ‘Neighbor Rosicky’ and ‘Ethan Frome’” - Sara Silva
"Different Kinds of Awakening in Two Texts" - Nora García
Título pendiente - Sebastián Ocampo
martes, 7 de junio de 2011
Colloquium
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras - Colegio de Letras Modernas
La clase vespertina de Historia Literaria VII de Letras Inglesas presenta:
Silence or Utterance?
Twenty Six Talks About Modernism in the USA
13 y 14 de junio
Salón ALAIDE Foppa
16 a 19 hrs.
La clase vespertina de Historia Literaria VII de Letras Inglesas presenta:
Silence or Utterance?
Twenty Six Talks About Modernism in the USA
13 y 14 de junio
Salón ALAIDE Foppa
16 a 19 hrs.
viernes, 10 de diciembre de 2010
Reading List 2011-2
READING LIST: HISTORIA LITERARIA VII* 2011-2
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
The Exploded Form
Essays
H. James (1843-1916): ‘The Art of Fiction’
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946): ‘Composition as Explanation’
Toni Morrison (1931-): ‘Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature’
Susan Sontag (1933-2004): ‘Against Interpretation’ (1966)
Alice Walker (1944-): ‘In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens’
Narrative Fiction
H. James: The Aspern Papers/ The Turn of the Screw
Kate Chopin (1851-1904): The Awakening
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935): ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948), ‘A Jury of Her Peers’
Edith Wharton (1862-1937): ‘Ethan Frome’
Willa Cather (1873-1947): ‘Neighbor Rosicky’
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946): ‘The Good Anna’
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941): ‘Queer’
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980): ‘Old Mortality’
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960): ‘The Gilded Six-Bits’ and an essay
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940): ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’
William Faulkner (1897-1962): As I Lay Dying
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): Extracts from In Our Times
Carson McCullers (1917-1967): The Ballad of the Sad Café
Toni Morrison (1931-): Sula
Charles Johnson (1948-): Middle Passage
The Necessary Angel: Modern American Poetry (selection from the Norton Anthology)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955): ‘The Snow Man’/ ‘The Emperor of Ice-Cream’/ ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’/ ‘The Idea of Order at Key West’
W.C. Williams (1883-1963): ‘Queen-Ann’s-Lace’/ ‘The Term’/ ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’/ extracts from ‘Paterson’
E. Pound (1885-1972): ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Life and Contacts’/The Cantos (I)
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) (1886-1961): ‘Oread’/ ‘The Walls Do Not Fall’
M. Moore (1887-1972): ‘The Past is the Present’/ ‘The Fish’/ ‘To a Snail’/ ‘Poetry’/ ‘The Student’/ ‘Bird-Witted
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
e.e. cummings (1894-1962): ‘Buffalo Bill’ and others
Langston Hughes (1902-1967): ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’/ ‘Mother to Son’/ ‘Mulatto’/ ‘Young Gal’s Blues’
Charles Olson (1910-1970): Selections from The Maximus Poems
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), Robert Lowell (1917-1977), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), Denise Levertov (1923-1997), Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), John Ashbery (1927-), Adrienne Rich (1929-), Gary Snyder (1930-), Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), Audre Lorde (1934-1992), Rita Dove (1952-).
Please make sure to have The Norton Anthology for this course. See Biblio. on blog.
* This list may be changed depending on the students’ participation and input, but these texts should be read before the semester begins.
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
The Exploded Form
Essays
H. James (1843-1916): ‘The Art of Fiction’
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946): ‘Composition as Explanation’
Toni Morrison (1931-): ‘Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature’
Susan Sontag (1933-2004): ‘Against Interpretation’ (1966)
Alice Walker (1944-): ‘In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens’
Narrative Fiction
H. James: The Aspern Papers/ The Turn of the Screw
Kate Chopin (1851-1904): The Awakening
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935): ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948), ‘A Jury of Her Peers’
Edith Wharton (1862-1937): ‘Ethan Frome’
Willa Cather (1873-1947): ‘Neighbor Rosicky’
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946): ‘The Good Anna’
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941): ‘Queer’
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980): ‘Old Mortality’
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960): ‘The Gilded Six-Bits’ and an essay
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940): ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’
William Faulkner (1897-1962): As I Lay Dying
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): Extracts from In Our Times
Carson McCullers (1917-1967): The Ballad of the Sad Café
Toni Morrison (1931-): Sula
Charles Johnson (1948-): Middle Passage
The Necessary Angel: Modern American Poetry (selection from the Norton Anthology)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955): ‘The Snow Man’/ ‘The Emperor of Ice-Cream’/ ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’/ ‘The Idea of Order at Key West’
W.C. Williams (1883-1963): ‘Queen-Ann’s-Lace’/ ‘The Term’/ ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’/ extracts from ‘Paterson’
E. Pound (1885-1972): ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Life and Contacts’/The Cantos (I)
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) (1886-1961): ‘Oread’/ ‘The Walls Do Not Fall’
M. Moore (1887-1972): ‘The Past is the Present’/ ‘The Fish’/ ‘To a Snail’/ ‘Poetry’/ ‘The Student’/ ‘Bird-Witted
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
e.e. cummings (1894-1962): ‘Buffalo Bill’ and others
Langston Hughes (1902-1967): ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’/ ‘Mother to Son’/ ‘Mulatto’/ ‘Young Gal’s Blues’
Charles Olson (1910-1970): Selections from The Maximus Poems
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), Robert Lowell (1917-1977), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), Denise Levertov (1923-1997), Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), John Ashbery (1927-), Adrienne Rich (1929-), Gary Snyder (1930-), Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), Audre Lorde (1934-1992), Rita Dove (1952-).
Please make sure to have The Norton Anthology for this course. See Biblio. on blog.
* This list may be changed depending on the students’ participation and input, but these texts should be read before the semester begins.
lunes, 8 de noviembre de 2010
Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s autobiography is on BBCRadio 4 Book of the Week. He directed that it should not be published until 100 years after his death. So now we can hear it. Do listen to it. We should enjoy it, having waited so long!
lunes, 13 de septiembre de 2010
Thomas Gray
A link to his famous poem: www.poetry-online.org/gray_thomas_elegy_in_a_country_churchyard.htm -
domingo, 12 de septiembre de 2010
Homework to be handed in on September 20, 2010
Historia Literaria VII 2011-1
Homework to be handed in on September 20, 2010
Possible essay/term paper on Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
!. Write a COMPLETE sentence that states the argument you might wish to develop. Remember that the word “how” does not express an argument. You might wish to start with such words as “I contend/argue/sustain that...” or “My proposal is ...” or “I pose that ...”. You should also remember that form and content are indivisible; they are, as Henry James would say, the needle and the thread of any text.
2. Then write four complete sentences that introduce the different aspects you might wish to develop to sustain your argument.
3. An alternative for those who want to enter the field of giving talks at conferences is an abstract. This should state your argument and the ways in which you will develop it in 500 words maximum. Remember that you are one of many who are dying to participate in this conference and will be judged by a board of organisers.
4. Please do not forget that you must have a title for your possible essay/term paper/abstract.
Homework to be handed in on September 20, 2010
Possible essay/term paper on Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
!. Write a COMPLETE sentence that states the argument you might wish to develop. Remember that the word “how” does not express an argument. You might wish to start with such words as “I contend/argue/sustain that...” or “My proposal is ...” or “I pose that ...”. You should also remember that form and content are indivisible; they are, as Henry James would say, the needle and the thread of any text.
2. Then write four complete sentences that introduce the different aspects you might wish to develop to sustain your argument.
3. An alternative for those who want to enter the field of giving talks at conferences is an abstract. This should state your argument and the ways in which you will develop it in 500 words maximum. Remember that you are one of many who are dying to participate in this conference and will be judged by a board of organisers.
4. Please do not forget that you must have a title for your possible essay/term paper/abstract.