Departamento de Filologas Inglesa y Alemana LICENCIATURA EN FILOLOGA INGLESA ESTUDIO SELECTIVO DE LA LITERATURA DE LOS EEUU I Breve descripcin/ Short course description Estudio de una seleccin de autores y textos de la literatura estadounidense del s. XX. Profesorado/ Lecturer(s)Nombre/Name: Mauricio D. Aguilera Linde Email: aguilera@ugr.es Tfn./Tel.: 958241000 ext. 20240 Web/web page:Despacho/Office: 20 Tutoras/Office hours: Monds. Weds. 16.30-28.30 Tuesd.- Thursd. 17.00-18.30 Datos del curso/ Course details Curso acadmico / Year of study: 20102011 Tipo de asignatura / Course type: Troncal/Core Obligatoria/Core Optativa/Elective Libre configuracin/Elective Calendario / Calendar: Anual / Year Cuatrimestral / Semester 1 2Requisitos y recomendaciones/Prerequisites Buen nivel oral y escrito de ingls. Crditos ECTS/ECTS credits Total ECTS tericos / theory: 4 Total ECTS prcticos / practice: 2 Desglose de crditos ECTS / ECTS breakdown: Actividades presenciales: 60 horas 40: Teora/Clases magistrales 10: Actividades en grupo 10; Exposiciones Actividades no presenciales:90 horas 30: lectura y escritura de ensayos 20: tutoras 10: bsqueda de bibliografa 30: sesiones prcticas Descriptores/ Course keywords Estudio de una seleccin de autores y textos de la literatura estadounidense del S. XX. Objetivos / Objectives of the course The major aim of ESTUDIO SELECTIVO DE LA LITERATURA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS I is to explore the evolution of the short story from 1900 to the late forties, and to provide an overview of the major authors, thematic forces and ideological problems concerning the historical development of the genre. Students will also be introduced to some of the most useful strategies for interpreting each of the texts assigned Contenidos/ Syllabus 1. A revision of the critical history of the short fiction. 1.1. Tennessee Williams Something about him.Language and power. 2. O. Henry and the short story. The demise of the South. Narrative techniques and ideological conundrums. 2.1. The ideological vision of the city: from horse-dragged wagons to el trains. "Thimble, Thimble", Furnished Room, "The Gift of the Magi", "October and June", "The Coming-out of Maggie,Witches' Loaves, etc. 3. "Language as disruption": Gertrude Stein and the avant-garde literary journals. Extracts from Tender Buttons and transition. 3.1. "The Gentle Lena": the basic strategies to create character and mood. 4. The beginning of language minimalism: Sherwood Anderson and tone. 4.1. "Hands" and "Death in the woods". 5. Ernest Hemingway: an introduction to his stories. 5.1. The "zero ending" and the "iceberg" principle.5.2. "Cat in the rain", "Hills like white elephants", "Fathers and Sons" and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place", etc. 6. William Saroyan: from the stream-of-consciousness technique of "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" to the pebble writing stories. 6.1. A selection of his best known stories. 7. Truman Capote: Master Misery and Miriam. Freudian symbols.Sexuality and loneliness in American society. 8. Carson McCullers: Loneliness and freaks in American conformist society. 8.1. A selection of her fiction 9. An introduction to the fiction of Raymond Carver: Theyre not your husband and View-finding. Mtodos docentes/ Teaching methods Teachers presentation of the new topics and critical terms In-class discussions Oral presentations Evaluacin/ Assessment Criterios de evaluacin / Assessment criteria: Class attendance and compliance with the essay writing tasks Reading comprehension and ability to write critical essays Ability to express arguments and defend them in class Ability to use hermeneutical/Interpretive tools to the decoding of texts Historical knowledge of the ideological/historical contexts Procedimientos de evaluacin / Assessment procedures: Evaluation will be based on : Short Essays (30%) Informal writings in class (10%). Oral presentations and class discussion on debatable topics (10%);and a final exam (50%). Idioma usado en clase y exmenes/ Language of instruction

English Bibliografa y recursos/ Recommended reading Bibliografa Obligatoria / Compulsory Reading Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Pengun Classics, 2000. Texts distributed in class and a reading list to be xeroked by the student. Bibliografa Bsica / Recommended Reading AguileraLinde,MauricioD.HemingwayandGender:BiographyRevisited. Atlantis27.2(2005):15-26.www.atlantisjournal.org/Papers/27_2/015-026%20Aguilera.pdf Aguilera Linde, Mauricio D. O. Henry y la cultura de la gran ciudad. Cuento en Red. Revista electrnica de ficcin breve. Nmero 10, Otoo 2004. www.cuentoenred.org/cer/numeros/no_10/no10_index.html AguileraLinde,MauricioD.Truthisheldindisrepute:O.Henryandthe DismantlingofParadigmsinMiscelnea.JournalofAnglo-AmericanStudies. (38) 2008.11-27. AguileraLinde,M.D.SaroyansLonelyFruitcakes andotherGoofs:Strategies of Resistance to the Culture of Abundance. Journal of the Short Story in English. Spring 2009. Forthcoming. AguileraLinde,M.D.Thewildernessisinterior:Williamsandstrategiesof resistanceinTwoonaParty.TheTennesseeWilliamsReview.Universityof Middle Tennessee. Forthcoming. Smith, Paul. New Essays on Hemingway's Short Fiction. Cambridge: C.U.P., 1998. Stevick,Philip(Ed.)TheAmericanShortStory1900-1945.ACriticalHistory. Boston: Twayne, 1984. Voss,Arthur.TheAmericanShortStory.Norman:UniversityofOklahomaPress, 1973. West,RayB.TheShortStoryinAmerica1900-1950.Chicago:HenryRegnery Company, 1952. Wagner-Martin,Linda(Ed.).AHistoricalGuidetoErnestHemingway.Oxford: O.U.P., 2000. Bibliografa Adicional / Further reading Otros recursos / Other resources