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Teacher
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VELLUCCI SABRINA
(syllabus)
History and Memory in U.S. 20th-Century Literature
Different forms of memory will be examined through representative texts of the twentieth-century American literary canon in which official history is problematized, recontextualized, and rewritten. In addition to the analysis of the texts’ thematic and formal features, we will explore issues related to the processes of construction of ethnic/racial identity, as a result of diasporas and migrations, and gender identity. We will focus, then, on the specificities of literary genre (fiction, poetry, non-fiction) and on phenomena such as intertextuality and intermediality.
(reference books)
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, ed. Peter G. Beidler (Boston-New York: Bedford/St. Martin, 2010, available at the Petrocchi Library) (James's text is also available online on Discovery: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uniroma3-ebooks/reader.action?docID=3008598&ppg=2 )
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome (New York: Norton Critical Edition, 1994, available at the Petrocchi Library)
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (New York: Norton Critical Edition, 2001).
Nella Larsen, Passing, in Quicksand and Passing, ed. Deborah E. McDowell (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers UP, 1986, available at the Petrocchi Library).
Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”, Howl & Other Poems, intro. William Carlos Williams (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1956, 1959) (PDF available online).
Toni Morrison, Beloved (New York: Vintage International, 2004, ebook, available online).
David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”, Review of Contemporary Fiction, 13:2 (Summer 1993) http://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf
Don DeLillo, "Midnight in Dostoevsky." The New Yorker, Nov. 22, 2009 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/11/30/midnight-in-dostoevsky
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