Información del curso

through a journey in the literary tradition and history of the United States of America, from the Native American literary work to Modern literary works such as novels and poetry. Studying, reading, and analyzing the oral tradition to the most important and influential writers and their work after the conquest of the United States (William Bradford, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson), Post independence (Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown), New England Raise, (Ralph W. Emerson, Henry D. Thoreau, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson) Post-War period (William Dean Howells, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and Emily Dickinson) Realism (Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, William, Edith Wharton) Modern Period (F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway and Willa Cather) Beat Generation (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Henry Miller), and the contemporary writers such as Ralph Ellison among others.