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Littérature américaine CM
Description
Code scolarité: LG20CM20
This unit seeks to place literary works in their historical and cultural context, while exploring their aesthetic dimension. The tools, methods and practices of textual analysis will be further investigated through close reading and argumentative writing.
The lecture course, “Nineteenth-Century American literature”, is a survey of the Romantic and the Realistic periods in American literature. Students will learn about major authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman, as well as lesser-known writers.
TDs will be devoted to the close study of 19th-century texts (novels, short stories or poems).
Students will gain an opportunity to develop their skills in textual analysis, which are transferable to other fields of learning. They will practice writing well-structured and convincing literary commentaries.
Set texts 2021-2022 (TDs) :
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings (Penguin Classics, David Galloway ed., 2004)
- Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson, Everyman's Poetry, ed. Helen Mcneil (Phoenix, 1997)
Compétences visées
Contextualiser les objets culturels ; analyser textes et documents ; prendre position et construire un argument abouti ; s’exprimer et dialoguer ; synthétiser, décloisonner, transférer ; chercher de l’information.
Bibliographie
Ouvrage de référence pour tous les cours de littérature:
Chris Baldick, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Oxford University Press, 2004.