SYLLABUS

Course Information
Code: Course: AMERICAN LITERATURE
Coordination Area / Program: DIRECCION DE DOBLE GRADO SIC Mode: A distancia
Credits: 03 Teaching hours: 48 Autonomous Learning Hours: 96
Period: 2023-02 Start date and end of period: del 14/08/2023 al 03/12/2023

Course Coordinators
Surname and First Name Email Contact Hour Contact Site
SANCHEZ CHAVEZ DE SILVA, NORMA Lunes a viernes de 9:00 a.m. a 5:00 p.m. Campus 1, pabellón B, primer piso

Instructors
You can check the timetables for each teacher in their INFOSIL in the Classes Development Teachers option Teachers.

Course Overview
This course covers major writers, genres and themes in American Literature from 1860 to the present. This includes fiction, poetry and drama. In addition,
students will analyze the social, political and cultural context in which each writing work takes place.

At the end of this course student will be able to:

• Demonstrate the ability to think critically about notable works of American literature
• Show the ability to read the assigned texts closely, develop interpretational analyses of such texts, and clearly articulate the findings of these critical
interpretational analyses
• Recognize the major movements and periods of American literature
• Examine the basic and more abstract elements of different genres of literature and using appropriate literary terminology
• Recognize recurring cultural and literary themes as they appear in selected works of American literature

Development of activities
Week (hrs) Type Contents Learning Activities Resources
Unit N° 1: Week 1
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION 1865-
1914
Realism and Naturalism as main
movements of the time. Historical - Get familiar with the course structure and requirements
1 3 AV background: - Seleccionar Write a short biography about yourself to
Introduction to the semester's work introduce each other. Include a picture of yourself. Needs
Introduction and Time Line (1-19) Samuel to be a meaningful entry and at least 20 sentences long
Clemens (Mark Twain) (111) "The
Notorious Jumping Frog . . ." (115)

Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1

Unit N° 2: Week 2
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Complete Reading assignment and write out
definitions for Humor, Irony, Satire, Local Color, Realism,
Regionalism as one of the characteristics Naturalism, and Literary Criticism
of realism: - Visit Library and review resources
Bret Harte (342) - Library Research. Develop Tentative Bibliography
2 3 AV "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (343) - • Review site:
Ambrose Bierce (394) http://www.norton.com/college/english/naal8/writing/C1a-
"Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (395) scrutinizing-assignment.aspx
"Chickamauga" (401) - • Watch videos/presentations and participate in online
discussions "The War Prayer" (340) Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1
Unit N° 3: Week 3
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Place and Voice of women in the
American Literature of the time:
• Henry James (388)
"Daisy Miller: A Study" (410) Homework: Read Emily Dickinson
3 3 AV • Edith Wharton (857) - Due: Project Topic "Poems of Emily Dickinson"pp.80-88
"Roman Fever" (872) - Due: Tentative Bibliography -Onl ine discussions on the material
• Kate Chopin (537)
"The Storm" (544)
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (639)
"A New England Nun" (640)
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1
Unit N° 4: Week 4
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
 Slavery through former slaves’ eyes:
• Booker T. Washington (699)
"Up from Slavery" (Chap 1) (701)
• Charles W. Chestnutt (724)
"The Goophered Grapevine" (726) - Online discussions/participation
4 3 AV • W.E.B. Dubois (918) - Finish Assigned Reading Assigned Reading
"The Souls of Black Folk" (920)
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (842)
"The Yellow Wall-paper" (844)
• Stephen Crane (1002)
"The Open Boat" (1048)
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1
Unit N° 5: Week 5
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Realism and Naturalism in representation
of American dream:
• Theodore Dreiser (985)
• From "Sister Carrie" (987) - Finish Assigned Reading
5 3 AV • Jack London (1107) - Online discussions/participation Assigned Reading
• "The Law of Life" (1108)
• Theodore Roosevelt (1169)
• From American Ideals (1169)
• From The Strenuous Life (1172)
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1
Unit N° 6: Week 6
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Poetry as a way to convey depression
through naturalistic movement:
• Edgar Lee Masters (24)
• Poems (25)
• Edwin Arlington Robinson (27)
• Poems (28)
6 3 AV • Robert Frost (218) - Finish Assigned Reading Assigned Reading
• "The Figure a Poem Makes" (238) - Online discussions/participation
• "The Pasture" (219)
• "Mowing" (219)
• "Mending Wall" (220)
• "Home Burial" (225)
• "The Road Not Taken" (230)
• "Fire and Ice" (233)
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1
Unit N° 7: Week 7
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Apathy and country side as another
representation of naturalism
• Sherwood Anderson (251)
• From Winesburg, Ohio (253) - Continue research and work on final project
• Carl Sandburg (266) - Finish Assigned Reading
7 3 AV • Poems (267) - Online discussions/participation Critical Essay II Due
• Wallace Stevens (269) - Study for the Midterm Exam
• "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman"
(272)
• "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" (272)
• "Of Modern Poetry" (280)
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1
Unit N° 8: Week 8
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Modernism and naturalism in the poetry of
the time
• William Carlos Williams (281)
• "The Young Housewife" (283)
• "Queen-Anne’s Lace" (284)
• "The Dead Baby" (289)
• Ezra Pound (293)
• "To Whistler, American" (295)
• "A Pact" (297) - Continue research and work on final project
8 3 AV • "In a Station of the Metro" (297) - Participate in online discussion on Williams, Pound, Midterm EXAM
• T.S. Eliot (352) and Eliot
• From Tradition and the Individual Talent
(359)
• "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
(355)
• "Gerontion" (363)
• The Wasteland (365)
• "The Hollow Men" (378)
• "Journey of the Magi" (381)
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1
Unit N° 9: Week 9
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
 Modernism and naturalism in the poetry of
the time
• Zora Neale Hurston (515)
• "How it Feels to be Colored Me" (533) - Continue research and work on final project
9 3 AV • Edna St. Vincent Millay (604) - Prepare for and participate in online discussion on
• Poems (604) Hurston, Millay, and Cummings
• E.E. Cummings (607)
• "the Cambridge ladies who live in
furnished souls" (611)
• "pity this busy monster " (617)
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1
Unit N° 10: Week 10
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Anti-utopia and a destroying nature of
American dream:
• Langston Hughes (833)
• "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (835)
• "Mother to Son" (835) - Prepare for first draft of final writing proyect
10 3 AV • "I, too" (836) - Do background study for Hemingway, Wolfe, and
• "The Weary Blues" (836) Steinbeck and participate in online discussion
• "Mulatto" (837)
• "Song for a Dark Girl" (838)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (629)
• "Winter Dreams" (630)
• William Faulkner (666)
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1
Unit N° 11: Week 11
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Lost Generation and WWII influence in the
literature of the time:
• Ernest Hemingway (795)
11 3 AV • "The Sun Also Rises" (797) - Participate in online discussion Due: First Draft of Final Writing Project
• Thomas Wolfe (807)
• "The Lost Boy" (808)
• John Steinbeck (845)
• "The Chrysanthemums" (846)
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1
Unit N° 12: Week 12
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
A role of human and individual in the
American Literature:
• From Vol E: AML Since 1945:
• Eudora Welty (43)
• "Petrified Man" (45) - Continue your readings -Tarea 6: Ensayo comparativo de la
12 3 AV • Ralph Ellison (189) - Prepare worksheet on Welty, Ellison, King, and Baldwin retórica de la violencia (Trabajo 3)
• From Invisible Man (190)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (handout)
• "I Have a Dream" (handout)
• James Baldwin (391)
• "Going to Meet the Man" (392)
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1
Unit N° 13: Week 13
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Nature representing unavoidable destiny
in naturalistic literature
• Flannery O’Connor (426)
• "Good Country People" (435)
• John Updike (632)
• "Separating" (634)
• N. Scott Momaday (673)
• From The Way to Rainy Mountain (674)
13 3 AV Feminism in the American Literature: - Editing & Revision of Final Project
• Alice Walker (912) - Online discussions
• "Everyday Use" (913)
• Sandra Cisneros (1100)
• "Woman Hollering Creek" (1101)
• Amy Tan (1090)
• From The Joy Luck Club (1091)
• "Two Kinds" (1091)
• Edwidge Danticat (1149)
• From Brother, I’m Dying (1150)
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1
Unit N° 14: Week 14
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
14 3 AV • FINAL PROJECT AND PRESENTATION - Submit FINAL PROJECT AND PRESENTATION FINAL PROJECT AND PRESENTATION
DUE
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1
Unit N° 15: Week 15
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
15 3 AV FINAL PROJECT AND PRESENTATION - Submit FINAL PROJECT AND PRESENTATION PROJECT AND PRESENTATION DUE
DUE
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1
Unit N° 16: Week16
Specific Outcome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
16 3 AV Final Exam - Final Exam Final Exam
Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading: 1

Methodology
The course will be developed based on the following methodologies: The methods of instruction will be influenced by institutional constraints, class size, class
meeting length, course length, and individual instructor style. Usually, student interest and learning is enhanced by the use of multiple instructional methods.
Aside from the traditional assignment of textbook readings and presentation of lectures based on these readings, methods of instruction might include the
following:
1. A review of the literature.
2. Check of the reading.
3. Analysis of assigned readings.
4. Group discussions.

Assessment System
Cada uno de los rubros del esquema de evaluación y la nota final del curso son redondeados a números enteros. La nota final del curso es el promedio
ponderado de los rubros correspondientes: evaluación permanente, examen parcial y examen final.
Los promedios calculados componentes del rubro 'Evaluación Permanente' mantendrán su cálculo con 2 decimales.
Type Evaluation %Weighing Observation Week Rezag.
Assessment
Evaluación Permanente 100%
Trabajo 1 30% The note is not removed from any assessment 7ma No
activity for Assignment 1
Trabajo 2 30% The note is not removed from any assessment 13va No
activity for Assignment 2
Trabajo 3 40% The note is not removed from any assessment 15va No
activity for Assignment 3

(*) Dates for each evaluation are available on INFOSIL, menu Información Académica, option Evaluaciones.
Midterm and final exam cannot be made-up.

Basic and Supplemental References Required Reading

Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola requires the use of Basic and Supplemental References as a resource for consultation within and outside the classroom.
The USIL Library promotes the use of library materials and / or electronic sources and at the beginning of each academic period conducts sessions and
provides guidance for their use.

Referencias Básicas:
[1] Bragg, B. (2014). Reading Contemporary African American Literature : Black Women’s Popular Fiction, Post-Civil Rights Experience, and the African American
Canon. Lexington Books/Fortress Academic: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bibliosil-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1865483
[2] Marguch, J. (2007). En la estirpe de la mejor literatura norteamericana. . La voz del interior:
https://www.proquest.com/docview/378080538/BB719BB1D5044051PQ/1?accountid=43847

References Supplementary Reading non-binding

[1] Rivera-Lassén, C. (2007). La expresión en la literatura . El nuevo día: https://www.proquest.com/docview/378579801/51F29014B1894F56PQ/5?
accountid=43847
[2] Miquel-Baldellou, M. (2018). «I WANTED TO BE OLD»: GENDER AND AGING IN DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S REBECCA AND SUSAN HILL'S MRS DE
WINTER. 1616: Anuario de Literatura Comparada: https://www.proquest.com/docview/2295346122/7D777D983F8845C2PQ/1?accountid=43847

Approved by: Validated by:

SANCHEZ CHAVEZ DE SILVA, NORMA Office of Curriculum Development
Date: 29/08/2023 10:56:21 Date: 29/08/2023 12:12:24