DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOLOGÍA INGLESA
Y ALEMANA
Literatura Norteamericana: Realismo Social y Generación Beat
Session 2022-2023
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Syllabus

 Social Perception and Human Nature.

2.  Allusive Methods and Dramatic Realism.

3.  Southern Social History.

4.  Textuality and Social Issues. 

5.  The 1950s Consciousness in American Fiction.

6.  Realism, Objectivism, and Visualization.

7.  Social Urges and Spiritual World.

8.  New Social Approach in the 1950s American Poetry.

9.  Confessionalism and Society in America.

10. Beat Poetry.

11. New Social American Drama.

12. After the Beat Poetry: Some Social Concerns.

General Bibliography
 
 

 

9.  Confessionalism and Society in America: Sylvia Plath. 
 Texts: “Witch Burning” and “Daddy.” 

Subjects of discussion to be presented in class:
     - Confessional Poetry: Anguishness and Social Forces.
      - Aspects and Features in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry.
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All these bibliographical references can be found at the Universidad de La Laguna
Central Library (Guajara Campus):

- Bryant, Marsha. “Plath, Domesticity, and the Art of Advertising.” College Literature
     29.3 (Summer 2002): 17-34.
- Kukil, Karen V. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962. New York:
Anchor, 2000.
- Mulvania, Andrew.  “Sylvia Plath: A Fifty Year Retrospective.” The Missouri
Review 36.4 
    (Winter 2013): 177 188.
- Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2003.
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Recommended Sylvia Plath Web Sites:

http://maps-legacy.org/poets/m_r/plath/plath.htm
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/sylvia-plath
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