53 La novela, el cuento y la poesía en Estados Unidos: H. Melville, E.A. Poe y W. Whitman

TEMA 53. La novela, el cuento y la poesía en Estados Unidos: H. Melville, E.A. Poe y W. Whitman

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION TO DEVELOP:



1. INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL AND LITERARY BACKGROUND

2. THE NOVEL: Herman Melville, life, Works (Moby Dick as masterpiece), topics and style.

3. THE SHORT STORY:  Edgar Allan Poe,, life, works (comic and horror tales, detective stories), topics and style.

4. POETRY:  Walt Whitman, life, works (Leaves of Grass as masterpiece), topics and style.

5. CONCLUSION

KEY CONCEPTS / TERMS / NAMES TO INCLUDE: 

• First period of Great American Literature (1820-1865)
• Civil war (1861-1865)
• Individualists and Trascendentalism
• Dark romanticism (Melville and Poe)
• Hawthorne, King James' Bible and Shakespeare's influence on Melville
• Poe's "unity of effect"
• Whitman's "body electric"

 
ESSENTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY: 

• The literature of the United States. Cunnlife, 1976.
• Contemporary authors. Cengage, Gale, 2015
• The Cambridge history of American Literature. Ward and Trent, 2002.
• The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 2000

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