UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA
                                                                                                 DEPARTAMENTO FILOLOGÍA INGLESA Y ALEMANA
 

                        LITERATURA NORTEAMERICANA: REALISMO SOCIAL Y
                                                        GENERACIÓN "BEAT"
 
 

Syllabus William Faulkner John Steinbeck
Langston Hughes Flannery O'Connor Bernard Malamud
Confessional Poetry: Sylvia Plath Beat Generation: Allen Ginsberg 20th-Century American Drama: Tennessee Williams
Donald Barthelme Recent American Poetry: Charles Bernstein
            SYLLABUS

                           1 . Modern American Literature: An Appreciation

                            2. Southern History, Narrative Method in William Faulkner.
                                         - Text:  "A Rose for Emily."

                            3. Realism and Studies of Life. John Steinbeck
                                         - Text: "Of Mice and Men."

                            4. Afro-American Appeals. Langston Hughes.
                                         - Text: "Ways & Means."

                            5. The 1950s Consciousness. Flannery O'Connor.
                                         - Text: "The River."

                            6. Jewishness in the 1950s. Bernard Malamud
                                         - Text: The Assistant.

                            7. Confessionalism. Sylvia Plath.
                                      - Texts: “Daddy.”

                            8. Beat Poetry and the New Transcendentalism.
                                      -  Allen Ginsberg. Text: “Howl.”

                            9.  New Social American Drama. Tennessee Williams.
                                      -  The Glass Menagerie.

                           10. Postmodernism in America. Donald Barthelme.
                                      - Text: "The Explanation."

                           11. Recent American Poetic Tendencies. Charles Bernstein.
                                      -  Text: “Artifice of Absorption.”
 

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