Departamentos
Atualizado em 08/01/2026
O Departamento é a menor subdivisão da estrutura universitária, para os efeitos de organização administrativa, didático-científica e de lotação de pessoal docente, integrando docentes e disciplinas com objetivos comuns de ensino, pesquisa e extensão. O corpo docente da Faculdade de Letras está dividido em dois departamentos:
Disciplina: LEM054 - LITERATURA NORTE AMERICANA II
Carga horária: 60
Departamento: DEPTO DE LETRAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS
Plano de Ensino
Ementa
OBJETIVOS GERAIS
- To provide the students with a survey of literature of the United States starting with the poetry of Walt Whitman during the ¿Gilded Age¿ (1860s) to the works of the pre-modernists (up to the 1920s);
- To explore several key American themes/preoccupations;
- To sharpen the students¿ skills in close reading, analysis, writing and oral fluency by means of seminars, discussions and a paper;
- To allow a comparative view of literature with other artistic expressions.
EMENTA
A Literary survey of North-American literature covering the important literary forms (poetry, drama, novels) from the poetry of Walt Whitman during the ¿Gilded Age¿ (1860s) to the works of the pre-modernists (up to the 1920s).
Conteúdo
PROGRAMA DISCRIMINADO EM UNIDADES E SUB-UNIDADES
1. The Civil War and the ¿Gilded Age¿: context and conditions
2. The poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
3. The Rise of Realism: context and conditions
4. Local Colorists
4.1 Sarah Orne Jewett, Bret Harte, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman ( three authors to be selected)
5. Midwestern Realism
5.1 William Dean Howells
6. Cosmopolitan Novelists
6.1 Henry James, Edith Wharton
7. Naturalism and Muckraking: Context and conditions
7.1 Hamlin Garland, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair (two authors to be selected)
8. Innovations Brought into Fiction: Ambrose Bierce
9. Poetry at the Turn of the Century
9.1 Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Arlington Robinson (one author to be selected)
10. Women Regional Novelists
10.1 Ellen Glasgow, Willa Cather
11. The Popular Short Stories of O.Henry
12. Developments in fiction: Sherwood Anderson
13. Poetry: Experiments in Form
13.1 Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Hilda Doolittle, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Archibaldi Macleish . (two authors to be selected)
Bibliografia
BROOKS, Cleanth, LEWIS, R.W.B., WARREN, Robert Penn. American Literature ¿ The Makers and the Making ¿ Book C: 1861 to 1914. New York: St. Martin¿s Press, 1974.
GUTH, Hans P., RICO, Gabriele L. Discovering Literature: Stories, Poems, Plays. 2nd Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997
HIGH, Peter B. An Outline of American Literature. London and New York: Longman, 1986.
HOLMAN, C. Hugh. A Handbook to Literature. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1996.
JACOBUS, Lee A. The Bedford Introduction to Drama. 3rd Edition. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997.
McMICHAEL, George. (Ed.) Concice Anthology of American Literature. 2nd Edition. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1985.
MEYER, Michael. The Bedford Introduction to Literature ¿ 4th Edition. Boston: Bedford Books, 1996.
----------. Poetry, an Introduction. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin¿s Press, 1995
Bibliografia complementar
BAYM, Nina. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 4th Edition, Vol.2. New York and London: WW Norton e Company, 1994.
Departamento de Letras (DLET)
O Departamento de Letras é formado pelos docentes que atuam nas áreas de Linguística, Língua Portuguesa, Línguas e Literaturas Clássicas (Grego e Latim), Estudos Literários e Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa (Portuguesa, Brasileira e Africana).
Chefe: Prof.ª Dr.ª Carol Martins da Rocha
Vice-chefe: Prof .ª Dr.ª Mercedes Marcilese
Contato: depto.letras@ufjf.br
Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas (DLEM)
O Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas é formado pelos docentes que atuam nas áreas de Inglês, Espanhol, Francês, Italiano, Libras e respectivas literaturas, além de oferecer disciplinas de Metodologia e Estágio Supervisionado em Língua Estrangeira.
Chefe: Prof. Dr. Thiago Mattos de Oliveira
Vice-chefe: Prof.ª Dr.ª Elena Santi
Contato: depto.dlem@ufjf.br