Syllabus
1. Modern American Literature:
An Appreciation.
2. Social Perception
and Human Nature: William Faulkner.
3. Allusive Methods and Dramatic
Monologues in Realism: Ernest Hemingway:
4. Social
History in American Fiction: Langston Hughes.
5. Textuality and
Reality: Wallace Stevens.
6.
The 1950s Realist Consciousness: Bernard Malamud.
7. Realism, Objectivism,
and Visualization: E.E. Cummings.
8. Social Urges
in Mid-century America: Flannery O'Connor.
9. Black Mountain
Poetry: Charles Olson.
10. Confessionalism
in America: Anne Sexton.
11. Beat Poetry:
Allen Ginsberg.
12. New Social American
Drama: Edward Albee.
13. Post-Realism: Donald
Barthelme.
14. New
Social Issues and in Recent American Poetry: Charles Bernstein.
Bibliography
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SYLLABUS
1. Modern American Literature: An Appreciation.
2. Social Perception and Human Nature: William
Faulkner:
- Text: “That Evening Sun.”
3. Allusive Methods and Dramatic Monologues in Realism:
Ernest Hemingway:
- Text: The Old Man and the Sea.
4. Social History in American Fiction: Langston Hughes:
- Text: “Ways &
Means.”
5. Textuality and Reality: Wallace Stevens.
“Loneliness
in New Jersey” and “Sunday Evening.”
6. The 1950s Realist Consciousness: Bernard Malamud:
- Text:
The Assistant.
7. Realism, Objectivism, and Visualization: E.E.
Cummings:
-Text: “Old Age Sticks.”
8. Social Urges in Mid-century America: Flannery
O'Connor:
- Text: “A Good
Man Is Hard to Find.”
9. Black Mountain Poetry: Charles Olson:
-Text: “Projective Verse” and Some Excerpts from
The Maximus Poems.
10. Confessionalism in America: Anne Sexton:
- Text: “All My Pretty Ones.”
11. Beat Poetry: Allen Ginsberg:
- Text: 's “Howl.”
12. New Social American Drama: Edward Albee:
- Text: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
13. Post-Realism: Donald Barthelme.
- Text: “The Explanation.”
14. New Social Issues and in Recent American Poetry:
Charles Bernstein:
- Text: “Artifice of
Absorption.”
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