UNIVERSITY OF LA LAGUNA
Contemporary American Literature: Production, Communication, and Culture 
Master in American Studies 
 
 
Syllabus  

Basic Bibliography  

Links 
 
International Conference  
“Poets and Publishers : Circulating Avant-Garde Poetry (1945-2010)”  
Université du Maine, Le Mans, France  
14-16 October 2010  
 
Curso Universitario Interdisciplinar  
“Publicar en el siglo XXI: Métodos y Prospectiva"  
Universidad de La Laguna, 21-25 de noviembre 2011  

 

This course will familiarize students with a variety of publishing strategies used to study the process and products of American literature and culture. Students will examine how people use texts to interpret the world and coordinate their activities in social groups. An examination of how publications present literary achievements and activities in varied formats. Reasons and consequences of this presentation are examined.  

An investigation of American literary production—anthologies, little mags, and trade and small presses— as they function within the literature and other expressions of widely different historical moments. Interactions between American literature and the visual arts. An exploration of the parallels between the work of individual writers, or movements, in American literature and the publications they edited.  

Student responsibilities will be: (a) presentation of approaches to the publishing industry; (b) investigating techniques for assessing both productive and economic effects of such publications. Students are expected to prepare a production or experiment using one of the forms of media. Students can do video production, a computer literary publication, or a theoretical presentation.  

Instructor: Manuel Brito 
Office Hours: 
Thursday: 12,00-15,00 
Friday: 12,00-15,00 
Phone: 922 317 614 
Fax: 922 317 611 

 
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