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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5. Afro-American Appeals: Langston Hughes.
- Text: “Ways & Means.”
Subjects of discussion to be presented in class:
- Langston Hughes’s Creation of Characters
- Racial Militancy and Disdain
- Black Soul and Humorous Style in Hughes’s
“WaYs & Means.”
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All these bibliographical references can found at the
Universidad de La Laguna Central Library
(Guajara Campus):
- Ford, Karen J. “Do Right to Write Right: Langston
Hughes’s Aesthetics of Simplicity.”
Twentieth-Century Literature
38.4 (Winter 1992): 436-456.
- Harper, Donna Akiba Sullivan. “On A. Rampersad’s
The Life of Langston Hughes.”
Obsidian II 5.2 (Summer 1990):
148-152.
- Holcomb, Gary Edward. "Langston Unshamed: Radical
Mythmaking in Hughes's
1930s Short Fiction." Modern Fiction
Studies 61.3 (Fall 2015): 423-445.
- Jarraway, David R. “Montage of an Otherness Deferred:
Dreaming Subjectivity
in Langston Hughes.” American
Literature 68.4 (December 1996): 819-847.
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Please, visit these sites for further information on
Langston Hughes:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83
http://www.howard.edu/library/reference/guides/hughes/default.htm
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