American Literature 2

The course is a second formative step in the curriculum specializing in American Literature, which is organized by literary genres, and it is addressed to second-year students. The second year will complete the historical and literary background from the origins to Modernism and is a survey of prose writing, both autobiographical and fiction, and it will offer the tools necessary for a critical analysis of the prose text, both in its contents and aesthetic forms. The course is divided into three didactic units, which will treat three specific literary periods: "The Colonial Period," "The Nineteenth Century," and "The Modernism."

Required knowledge: at the end of the course, students should be able to situate the primary texts included in the reading list in their historical, cultural and literary context. They should also be able to contextualize each author within the or literary period to which they belong. They should demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of all the literary works included in the reading list. Required linguistic skills: at the end of the course, students should demonstrate the ability to read and translate the original versions of the literary works included in the reading list, (or to paraphrase them in English, in the case of international students), to discuss in English what they learned during the course. Required literary skills: at the end of the course, students should be able to perform a critical and formal text analysis of the literary works included in the reading list, and an ability to make connections between the various authors and works they have been studying.