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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9. Confessionalism. Anne Sexton.
- Texts: “All My Pretty Ones.”
Subjects of discussion to be presented in class:
- Confessional Poetry: Cultural
Forces.
- Psychoanalysis and Poetic
Synthesis in Anne Sexton’s Work.
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All these bibliographical references can found at the
ULL Central Library, Guajara Campus):
On Confessional Poetry:
- Middlebrook, Diane Wood. “What Was Confessional Poetry?”
The Columbia History
of American Poetry. Ed. Jay
Parini. New York: Columbia UP, 1993. 632-649.
- Phillips, Robert. The Confessional Poets.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1973.
On Anne Sexton:
- Bixler, Francis. Original Essays on the Poetry
of Anne Sexton. U of Central Arkansas, 1988.
- Hall, Caroline King Barnard. Anne Sexton.
New York: Twayne, 1989.
- Miller, Nancy. K. "Remembering Anne Sexton: Maxine
Kumin in Conversation
with Diane Middlebrook." PMLA
127.2 (March 2012): 292-300.
- Moramarco, Fred, and William Sullivan. ““A Whole
New Poetry Beginning Here”:
The Assertion of Gender.”
Containing Multitudes: Poetry in the United States
since 1950. New York:
Twayne, 1998. 165-174.
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- Recomended website for Confessional Poetry:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5650
- Recomended Anne Sexton web sites:
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/sexton/sexton.htm
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/14
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