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Syllabus

1. Modern American Literature: An Appreciation.
2.  Southern Social History in William Faulkner’s Fiction.
3. Ernest Hemingway’s Textuality and Social Issues.
4. Reality in Wallace Stevens. 
5. Afro-American Appeals: Langston Hughes.
6. Cultural Hedonism: E.E. Cummings.
7. The 1950s Consciousness: Flannery O'Connor.
8.. Jewishness in the 1950s: Bernard Malamud.
9. Black  Mountain Poetry.
10. The Beat Generation: An Approach.
11. Confessionalism: Anne Sexton.
12.  New Social American Drama: Edward Albee.
13.Postmodernism in America: Donald Barthelme.
14. Recent American Poetry: Charles Bernstein.

- 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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