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
 
 

 


6. Cultural Hedonism in the 1950s: E.E. Cummings. 
   - Texts: “Old Age Sticks,” “Buffalo Bill’s,” and “When You Are Silent, Shining Host by Guest.”

Subjects of discussion to be presented in class:
    - Real World and Ideal World.
    - Growth in E.E. Cummings' Poetry.
    - The Other: Integration and the Uses of Becoming.
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 All these  bibliographical references can be  found at the Universidad de 
La Laguna Central Library (Guajara Campus):
- Cohen, Milton A. Poet and Painter: The Aesthetics of E.E. Cummings's Early Work.
                Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1987.
- Kidder, Rushworth M. E.E. Cummings: An Introduction to the Poetry.
                New York: Columbia UP, 1979.
- Triem, Eve. E.E. Cummings. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1969.

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Please, visit these sites for further information on E.E. Cummings: 
         - http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/156
         - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/e-e-cummings 

 
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