BIBLIOGRAPHY
o A Companion to the American Short Story, eds. A. Bendixen and J. Nagel, Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010:
A. Bendixen, “The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story,” pp. 3-19
J. Nagel, “The Twentieth Century: A Period of Innovation and Continuity”, pp. 217-223

SYLLABUS
 General introduction to the course; The American Short Story in the Nineteenth Century: A. Bendixen, “The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story” [8/6 CFU]
 The Gilded Age: Realism, Naturalism, Regionalism: American Literature 1865-1914 (Introduction and Timeline) [8/6 CFU]
 Realism and Society in the Gilded Age (Part 1): Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills (1861) [8/6 CFU]
Francis Bret Harte
 Realism and Society in the Gilded Age (Part 3): Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Wife of His Youth” (1898) [8/6 CFU]
 Geographies of Regionalism (Part 1): Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (1865) [8/6 CFU]
 Geographies of Regionalism (Part 2): Kate Chopin, “Désirée’s Baby” (1893) – “The Story of an Hour” (1894) [8/6 CFU]
 The Frontiers of American Naturalism (Part 1): Stephen Crane, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets (1898) [8/6 CFU]
 The Frontiers of American Naturalism (Part 2): Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890) [8/6 CFU]
 The Frontiers of American Naturalism (Part 3): Jack London, “To Build a Fire” (1902) [8 CFU]
 The Twentieth Century: Modernism in the United States: American Literature 1914-1945 (Introduction and Timeline) [8/6 CFU]
 American Modernism and Poetry: Robert Frost (“Mending Wall” – “The Road not Taken”), William Carlos Williams (“The Red Wheelbarrow” – “The Great Figure”) [8/6 CFU]
 American Modernism and Poetry (The Harlem Renaissance): Langston Hughes (“Negro” – “I, also, Sing America”) [8/6 CFU]
 The American Short Story in the Twentieth Century: J. Nagel, “The Twentieth Century: A Period of Innovation and Continuity” [8/6 CFU]
 American Modernism and Fiction (Part 1): William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (1930) [8 CFU]
 American Modernism and Fiction (Part 2): Francis Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited” (1931) [8/6 CFU]
 American Modernism and Fiction (Part 4): Ernest Hemingway, “Soldier’s Home”, "Cat in the Rain", “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1936) [8/6 CFU]
 American Modernism and Fiction (Part 5): John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937) [8 CFU]
 Contemporary Literature: Multiculturalism (Part 1): John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938) [8/6 CFU]
 The Contemporary Age and Postmodernism: American Literature since 1945 (Introduction and Timeline) [8/6 CFU]
 Contemporary Literature: Multiculturalism (Part 2): Toni Morrison, “Recitatif” (1983) [8/6 CFU]
 Contemporary Literature: Minimalism: Raymond Carver, “What We Talk about when We Talk about Love” (1983) [8 CFU]
 Contemporary Literature: Multiculturalism (Part 3): Jhumpa Lahiri, “Sexy” (1999) [8/6 CFU]

I testi in programma dovranno essere letti in lingua originale!

Below the program, divided for those who take 6 and 8 credits:
Seguono i testi in programma divisi a seconda del numero di crediti:

8 credits:
Rebecca Harding Davis, “Life in the Iron Mills” (1861)
Francis Bret Harte, “The Luck of Roaring Camp” (1968)
Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Wife of His Youth” (1898)
Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (1865)
Kate Chopin, “Désirée’s Baby” (1893) – “The Story of an Hour” (1894)
Stephen Crane, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets (1898)
Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890)
Jack London, “To Build a Fire” (1902)
Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” – “The Road not Taken”
William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” – “The Great Figure”
Langston Hughes, “I, also, Sing America”
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (1930)
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited” (1931)
Ernest Hemingway, “Soldier’s Home”, “Cat in the Rain”, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1936)
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937)
John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938)
Toni Morrison, “Recitatif” (1983)
Raymond Carver, “What We Talk about when We Talk about Love” (1983)
Jhumpa Lahiri, “Sexy” (1999)

6 credits:
Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills (1861)
Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (1865)
Kate Chopin, “Désirée’s Baby” (1893) – “The Story of an Hour” (1894)
Stephen Crane, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets (1898)
Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890)
Robert Frost (“Mending Wall” – “The Road not Taken”), William Carlos Williams (“The Red Wheelbarrow”)
Langston Hughes, “I, also, Sing America”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited” (1931)
Hemingway, “Soldier’s Home”, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1936)
John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938)
Toni Morrison, “Recitatif” (1983)
Carver, “What We Talk about when We Talk about Love” (1983)
Jhumpa Lahiri, “Sexy” (1999)