ANGLO AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE 1

The students will achieve a good knowledge of Anglo-American Literature from Puritanism to Transcendentalism (XIV Century to mid-XIX Century), through the analysis of the various literary movements and their main protagonists.

Discussion and interpretation of fundamental works of literature in context

The literary movements and main protagonists of US Literature and Culture from Puritanism to Transcendentalism. A detailed list of authors and texts that the students are required to know will be provided during the course.

Guido Fink et al. Storia della letteratura americana: dai canti dei pellerossa a Philip Roth, Rizzoli, Milano 1994 pp. 1-108

Gray, Richard, A History of American Literature, Blackwell Publishing, Malden (MA), Oxford and Carlton (VIC) 2004, pp 1-129.

AA. VV., The Norton Anthology of American Literature (6^th Edition), voll. A e B.