DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOLOGÍA INGLESA Y ALEMANA
Literatura Norteamericana: Realismo Social y Generación Beat
Session 2024-2025

 

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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 Mountain Poetry
9. The Beat Generation
10. Realism: American Drama
11. Late Twentieth-Century Fiction
12. Late Twentieth-Century Poetry
General Bibliography
 
 


 

8. Black Mountain Poetry: Composition and Humanistic Concerns.
              -  Charles Olson.Text: “Projective Verse,” and some excerpts
                  from The Maximus Poems

Subjects of discussion to be presented in class:
   - Poetics in the Blackmountaineer Poets. 
   - - Charles Olson's View of Topos and History..
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All these bibliographical references can be found at the ULL Central Library, Guajara Campus): 

On Black Mountain Poetry:
- Dawson, Fielding. The Black Mountain Book. Rocky Mount: Wesleyan College P, 1991.
- Foster, Edward Halsey. Understanding the Black Mountain Poets. Columbia:
            U of South Carolina P, 1995.

On Charles Olson:
- Clark, Tom. Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.
- Halden-Sullivan, Judith. The Topology of Being:The Poetics of Charles Olson. New York: Peter Lang, 1991.
- Rifkin, Libbie. Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde.
            Madison: The U of Wisconsin P, 2000. 
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- Recomended websites for Charles Olson: 
 - https://poets.org/poet/charles-olson
 - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charles-olson

 
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