Modern and Contemporary American Literature

Modern and Contemporary American Literature is a course book especially designed for students of UNED’s “Literatura Norteamericana II: Moderna y Contemporánea” of the “Grado en Estudios Ingleses: Lengua, Literatura y Cultura.” It offers a survey of the main authors, texts and concerns of twentieth-century American literature, and pays particular attention to Modernism and Postmodernism as major cultural moments. This book also comprises analytical strategies for the course’s set readings, as well as self-assessing and discussion exercises for the students to test their own progress.