TEXTOS LITERARIOS NORTEAMERICANOS II
 

           SYLLABUS

                     1) Modern and Contemporary American Literature: New Paradigms

                     2) Gertrude Stein’s Cubist Technique
                                  - Text: “If I Told Him.”

                    3) John  Dos Passos's Cinematic Approach
                                 - Text: Manhattan Transfer.

                    4)  Narrative Method in William Faulkner.
                                - Text:  "A Rose for Emily."

                     5) Objectivism and Visualization: Marianne Moore.
                               - Text: “Nine Nectarines.”

                     6) Black Mountain Poetry:
                              - Charles Olson. Texts: Some Excerpts from The Maximus Poems, III.163.
                              -  Robert Creeley. Texts: “I Know a Man,” and “Le Fou.”

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

                     8) Beat Poetry and Ecological Issues:
                              - Gary Snyder. Texts: “Marin-An,” and “Buildings.”

                     9) Confessionalism. Anne Sexton.
                              - Texts: “All My Pretty Ones.”

                    10) The Creative Use of Language in William Gass
                              - Text: "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country."

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

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

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