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
 
 

- Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern American Novel. New York: Viking, 1992.
- Breslin, James E. B. From Modern to Contemporary American Poetry 1945-1965. Chicago: The U of Chicago P, 1984.
- Brito, Manuel. "The Making of Contemporary American Fiction." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 39 (Noviembre 1999).
- Brito, Manuel. Means Matter. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011.
- Elliott, Emory. The Columbia History of the American Novel. New York: Columbia UP, 1991.
- Ford, Boris. The Pelican Guide to English Literature: American Literature. [vol. 9] Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989.,
- Nelson, Cary. Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945. Madison: The U of Wisconsin P, 1989.
 
 

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