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: LEM055 - LITERATURA NORTE AMERICANA III
Carga horária: 60
Departamento: DEPTO DE LETRAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS
Plano de Ensino
Ementa
A literary survey of North-American literature covering the important literary forms (poetry, drama, novels) from the flourishing of American modernism in the 1920s to Contemporary voices and trends. Analysis of the literary works in terms of content, style and structure. A panoramic view of modern theories of literature and criticism.
PROGRAMA DISCRIMINADO EM UNIDADES E SUB-UNIDADES
1. Modernism in North-American Literature: context and conditions
2. Great Writers of the ¿Lost Generation¿:a) Fiction
2.1 Gertrude Stein, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner.
3. Great Writers of the ¿Lost Generation¿ b) Poetry
3.1 e.e. cummings
4. The Twentieth-Century Afro-American Writer: W.E.B.Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Right, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin. (one author to be selected)
5. Fiction in the Thirties
5.1 John Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Henry Miller, Nathaniel West, Katherine Anne Porter, Dashiell Hammett, Erskine Caldwell, John dos Passos. (one or two authors to be selected)
6. Poetry in the Thirties
6.1 John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren
7. Fiction in the Forties and Fifties
7.1 Eudora Welty, Flannery O¿Connor, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Bowles, Raymond Chandler, James Jones, Carson McCullers, John O¿Hara. (two or three authors to be selected)
7.2 The Beat Generation: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs
8. Poetry in the Forties and Fifties
8.1 Theodore Roethke, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell. (one author to be selected)
9. Poetry, Fiction (Postmodern) in the Sixties and Seventies
9.1 Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Joyce Carol Oates, Truman Capote, William Styron, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, Robert Coover, E.L. Doctorow, William Gaddis, John Gardner, William Gass, John Hawkes, Joseph Heller, John Irving, Ken Kesey, Jersy Kosinski, Thomas Pynchon, Ishamel Reed, Ronald Sukenick, John Updike, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Harper Lee, Walter Abish. (three authors to be selected)
10. Drama in the 20th Century
10.1 Eugene O¿Neill, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Millher, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, David Mamet (one or two authors to be selected)
11. Fiction in the Eighties and Nineties:
11.1 Toni Morrison, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo,Tom Wolfe, Alice Walker, Tim O¿Brien, Kathy Acker, William Gibson, Art Spiegelman. (one or two authors to be selected)
12. Electronic Textual Forms : Michael Joyce: Hypertext: afternoon, a story. An electronic selection from afternoon is available at the Norton Website: http://www.wwnorton.com ; J.Yellowlees Douglas: Hypertext: I have Said Nothing. Available at the Norton Website: http://www.wwnorton.com
13. Overview of modern theories of literature and criticism, especially:
a) Feminist Criticism
b) Psychological and Psychoanalytic Criticism
c) Postcolonial Theory
d) Narratology
Conteúdo
- To provide the students with a survey of literature of the United States from the flourishing of American modernism in the 1920s to contemporary voices and trends;
- 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;
- To introduce some innovative literary theories and methods of critical analysis of the last half century
Bibliografia
BROOKS, Cleanth, LEWIS, R.W.B., WARREN, Robert Penn. American Literature ¿ The Makers and the Making ¿ Book D: 1914 to the Present. New York: St. Martin¿s Press, 1974.
GEYH, Paula, LEEBRON, Fred, LEVY, Andrew. Postmodern American Fiction ¿ A Norton Anthology. New York and London: WW Norton e Company, 1998.
GRODEN, Michael, KREISWIRTH, Martin. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory e Criticism. Baltimore e London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
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.
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