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Teacher
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ANTONELLI SARA
(syllabus)
This course will deepen your understanding of 19th-century American Literature and prepare you to approach American Realism and Modernism. In the classroom, I will explore the cultural complexities of a rapidly expanding nation as revealed by representative authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and others. I will also emphasize the ways in which classic American literary texts have provided themes, styles, and narrative techniques to a distinctively American film culture. Through this course, students will strengthen their close reading and analytical writing skills. Attendance is highly recommended for prospective American Literature majors.
(reference books)
La dichiarazione di indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d’America (1776)
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=2&page=transcript
Costituzione degli Stati Uniti d'America (1787)
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=9&page=transcript
Bill of Rights (1791)
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/bill-of-rights/
Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1682)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/851/851-h/851-h.htm
Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America” e “To The Right Honorable, William, Earl of Dartmouth” (1773)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45465/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/right-honourable-william-earl-dartmouth
June Jordan, "Il difficile miracolo dellaa poesia nera in America: una sorta di sonetto per Phillis Weathley", ACOMA 3, Inverno 1993, pp. 4-13
http://www.acoma.it/sites/default/files/pdf-articoli/3jordan.pdf
President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789)
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=false&page=milestone
Washington Irving, The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819), New York, OUP, 2009, ISBN: 978-0199555819
"Rip Van Winkle"
"Traits of Indian Character"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Washington Irving, The History of New York (1809), Book I, Chapter V only
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13042/13042-h/13042-h.htm#I_CHAPTER_V
Alessandro Portelli, "The buried king and the memory of the future: From Washington Irving to Bruce Springsteen", Memory Studies, Vol. 13, n. 3, 2020, pp. 267-76.
(l'articolo è disponibile in formato elettronico accedendo online e con le proprie credenziali al Sistema bibliotecario d'ateneo)
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Murders of the Rue Morgue” (1841) e The Masque of the Red Death" (1842)
https://www.poemuseum.org/the-murders-in-the-rue-morgue
http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2020/10/Masque-of-the-Red-Death.html
Tommaso Giartosio, "Imitative Propensieties. Mimesi e schiavitù negli scritti di Poe", ACOMA 8, Estate-Autunno 1996, pp. 81-94.
http://www.acoma.it/sites/default/files/pdf-articoli/8giartosio.pdf
Frederick Douglass, Narrazione della vita di Frederick Douglass, uno schiavo americano, scritta da lui stesso (1845), a cura di Maria Giulia Fabi, con testo a fronte, Venezia, Marsilio, 2015.
— “Letter to His Master”, Sept. 1848
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/02/i-am-your-fellow-man-but-not-your-slave.html
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850), edited by Leland S. Person, New York, Norton, 2017.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass/Foglie d'erba (1855), a cura di Mario Corona, con testo a fronte, Venezia, Marsilio, 2002.
OR: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass/Foglie d'Erba (1855), a cura di Alessandro Ceni, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2015.
— Langston Hughes, “I, too” (free online).
— Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in America” (free online).
Herman Melville, The Piazza Tales, Broadview Press, Broadview 2018, 9781554813100 / 1554813107 (Be sure to order this book well in advance, either in paper or ebook)
-- "Bartleby" (1853)
-- "Benito Cereno" (1855)
Abraham Lincoln, "The Emancipation Proclamation" (1863)
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=34
Abraham Lincoln, "The Gettysburg Address" (1863)
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=36
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address" (1865)
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=38
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2017, ISBN: 9781554812691 (Be sure to order this title well in advance, in paper or ebook).
-- Robert D. Habich, "Introduction", pp. 11-40.
-- The American Scholar
-- The Divinity School Adress
-- Experience
-- pp. 341-63 (Reed, Channing, Fuller, Bowen, Channing, LM Alcott, Healey Dall, 377-79 (Poe, Fuller), 381-82 (Whitman), 389-94 (James, LM Alcott).
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, edited by Ann Hiebert Alton, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2001, ISBN: ISBN: 9781551111919 / 1551111918 (Be sure to order this title well in advance, in paper or ebook).
-- "Introduction", pp. 9-32.
-- "The Composition and Publication of Little Women", pp. 497-99, 503.
-- "The Sources for Little Women", pp. 518-29.
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady, edited by Michael Gorra, New York, Norton, 2017, ISBN: 978-0393938531
-- "Preface to the 1908 Edition", pp. 3-13.
-- Notes of a Son and Brother, pp.419-421
-- "Letter to Mary James", pp.425-27.
-- Notebooks, pp. 428-430.
-- Hawthorne (1879), by Henry James, pp. 40-45
https://archive.org/details/hawthorne02jamegoog/page/n5/mode/2up
Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Other Writings (1899), Petersborough, Broadview Press, 2011, ISBN 9781551113494 / 155111349X (Attenzione: va ordinato con largo anticipo, in cartaceo o ebook).
-- Introduzione, pp. 9-33.
-- The Awakening (1899)
-- "At Chenière Caminada" (1893)
-- "Madame Célestin's Divorce" (1894)
-- "A Respectable Woman" (1894)
-- Will H. Coleman, Historical Sketch and Guide to New Orleans and Environs (1885)
-- Alice Dunbar-Nelson, "People of Color in Louisiana: Part I" (1916)
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "The Solitude of the Self" (1892)
-- "Désirée's Baby" (1893) https://www.katechopin.org/pdfs/desirees-baby.pdf
-- "The Story of An Hour" (1894) https://www.katechopin.org/story-hour/
Three Negro Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folks, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, New York, Avon Books, 1999 ISBN: 978-0380015818.
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (1901)
-- Capitoli I, III, VI, VII, XIV.
W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
-- The Forethought
-- Our Spiritual Strivings (Cap. I)
-- On Mr. Booker T. Washington And Others (Cap. III)
-- On the Meaning of Progress (Cap. IV)
-- Of the Wings of Atlanta (Cap. V).
-- Of the Passing of the First-Born (Cap. XI)
-- Of the Coming of John (Cap. XIII)
-- Of the Sorrow Songs (Cap. XIV).
Stuart Hall, "Tearing Down the Veil", The Guardian, Feb 22, 2003.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/feb/22/featuresreviews.guardianreview30
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), edited by Tony Tanner, New York, Oxford UP, 2000, ISBN: 978-0141182636
-- "Introduction", pp. vii-lv.--
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Winter Dreams", 1922
http://www.gutenberg.net.au/fsf/WINTER-DREAMS.html
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Echoes of the Jazz Age", 1931
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/fitzgeraldfs-echoesofthejazzage/fitzgeraldfs-echoesofthejazzage-00-h.html,
Sara Antonelli, "Landscape with a Tragic Hero: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Trimalchio", F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 13 (2015), pp. 55-75 (Catalogo elettronico di Roma Tre).
Sara Antonelli, "Gatsby nostro contemporaneo", Acoma 15 (Autunno-Inverno), 2018, 121-133.
http://www.acoma.it/sites/default/files/pdf-articoli/11%20Antonelli.pdf
Hans Bertens & Theo D’haen, American Literature: A History, London, Routledge, 2013 (also in ebook).
-- "Beginnings to 1810"
-- "Towards cultural independence: 1810 to the Civil War"
-- "Civil War to World War I: 1865-1918"
N.B. Students who are not able to attend classes will study the same syllabus/books above.
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