Syllabus

1   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.

General Bibliography
 
 

Subjects of discussion to be presented in class:
     - Roethke’s Sense of Oneness.
     - The Greenhouse as a World of Growth.
_____________________________________________
All these bibliographical references can be found at the Universidad de La Laguna
Central Library (Guajara Campus):

- Kunitz, Stanley. “Roethke: Poet of Transformations.” Contemporary Poetry
    in America: Essays        and Interviews. Ed. Robert Boyers. New York: 
     Schocken, 1974. 99-109.
- Lieberman, Laurence. “Theodore Roethke.” Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on
     Contemporary Poets. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1995. 256-258.
- Mills, Ralph J., Jr. Theodore Roethke. Essays on Poetry. Normal: Dalkey Archive,
      2003. 114-158.
- Turpin, Jeff P. and Robert W. Fuhrman. “Adaptive and Maladaptive Poetry: in Plath,
    Roethke, Kunitz, and Moraga.”Style 47.1 (Spring 2013): 479 499.
_____________________________________________
Please, visit these sites for further information on Theodore Roethke: 

http://maps-legacy.org/poets/m_r/roethke/roethke.htm
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/theodore-roethke
 

This Web Site was created by and maintained by Manuel Brito. This web page, as well  as  all of its graphics and pictures were made by Manuel Brito. Said works may not be reproduced  in or on any form of media, electronic, or otherwise without the consent of the authors. This site © 2022-2023. All rights reserved.