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Syllabus
1. Modern American Literature
2.Twentieth-Century
Realism
3. Progressive Criticism
4. The Depression
Years
5. Chicago
Renaissance
6. Cultural
Hedonism in the 1950s
7. Psychology
and Realism in the 1950s
8. Black
American Poetry
9. The Beat
Generation
10. Realism:
American Drama
11.
Late Twentieth-Century Fiction
12.
Late Twentieth-Century Poetry
General Bibliography
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2. Twentieth-Century Realism in
Content and Purpose.
- Foreshadowing Social Attitudes
of 20th-century American Poetry: Edwin Markham.
- Text: “The Man with a Hoe.”:
- Technique of Characterization:
Edwin Arlington Robinson.
- Text: “Mr Flood’s Party.”
Subjects of discussion to be presented in class:
- Edwin Markham: Labor, Social Oppression.
- Edwin Arlington Robinson: Characterization,
Attitude toward Religion, and Language.
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All these bibliographical references can be found
at the Universidad de La Laguna Central
Library, Guajara Campus:
- Gregory, Horace and Marya Zaturenska. "Joaquin
Miller, Edwin Marham, George Sterling."
A History of American Poetry, 1900-1940. New York: Gordian, 1969. 44-58.
- Rosenthal, M.L. "Robinson and Frost." The
Modern Poets: A Critical Introduction. New York:
Oxford UP, 1960. 104-112.
- Shucard, Alan, Fred Moramarco, and William
Sullivan. "On the Twentieth Century: Edwin Arlington Robinson,
Robert Frost, and the Harlem Renaissance." Modern American Poetry 1865-1950.
Amherst: U of Massachussetts P, 1989. 32-64.
- Trachtenberg, Alan. "Democracy and the Poet:
Walt Whitman and E.A. Robinson."
The Massachussetts Review 39.2 (Summer 1998): 267-280.
Recommended Edwin Markham web site:
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edwin-markham
Recommended Edwin Arlington Robinson web site:
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edwin-arlington-robinson
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