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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7. Jewishness in the 1950s. Bernard
Malamud
- Text: The Assistant.
Subjects of discussion to be presented in
class:
- The Literature of the Jews in the United
States.
- Humanistic Values in Bernard Malamud's
Fiction.
- Structural Simplicity and Psychological
Sophistication in The Assistant.
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All these bibliographical references can
found at the Universidad de La Laguna
Central Library (Guajara Campus):
- Aarons, Victoria. "Compassion and Redemption
in Malamud's Short
Fiction." Studies in American
Fiction 20.1 (Spring 1992): 57-74.
- Da Silva Pires, Ramira M.S. "O Universo femenino
en The Assistant
de Bernard Malamud." Estudos
Anglo-Americanos 17-18 (1993/94): 105-113.
- Field, Leslie A. ed. Bernard Malamud and the Critics.
New York:
New York UP, 1970.
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Please, visit these sites for further information on
Bernard Malamud:
http://www2.dokkyo.ac.jp/~esemi006/malamud/index2.htm
http://www.enotes.com/bernard-malamud-salem/bernard-malamud-0120000298
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