Title
Discovering America: Literature and Culture in the New World
Description
1. This course will trace the origins and development of American literature and culture from its beginnings to the mid-nineteenth century through a close reading of a number of texts ranging from transcriptions of oral sources to poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
2. Special attention will be paid to the search for a distinctively American voice and for cultural independence from Europe.
3. The reading list will include such authors as Mary Rowlandson, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Herman Melville.
Discovering America: Literature and Culture in the New World
Description
1. This course will trace the origins and development of American literature and culture from its beginnings to the mid-nineteenth century through a close reading of a number of texts ranging from transcriptions of oral sources to poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
2. Special attention will be paid to the search for a distinctively American voice and for cultural independence from Europe.
3. The reading list will include such authors as Mary Rowlandson, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Herman Melville.
- Teacher: LEONARDO BUONOMO