the English 88 schedule - Fall 2010

• introduction

• chapter 1: extensive and intensive Americans

• chapter 2: modernism

• chapter 3: the reaction "against" modernism: the radical 1930s

• chapter 4: the reaction "against" modernism: the Harlem Renaissance

• chapter 5: the reaction "against" modernism: the case of Robert Frost

• chapter 6: the "new formalists" of the 1950s: modernism at dead end?

• chapter 7: breaking fifties' conformity: the beats (and the spoken word)

• chapter 8: the New York Poets & the rise of postmodernism

• chapter 9: language poetry and the contemporary avant garde