the English 589 schedule - fall 2002

9/11:
• introduction

  9/18:

• chapter 1: extensive and intensive Americans

  9/25 & 10/2:

• chapter 2: modernism

  10/9:

• 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

  10/16:

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

  10/23:

• chapter 7A: breaking fifties' conformity: the beats (and the spoken word), Jack Spicer

  10/30:

• chapter 7B: Carl Rakosi

  11/6 & 11/13:

• chapter 8: the "New York school" & the rise of the postmodern

  11/20 & 11/27:

• chapter 9, part 1: language poetry and the contemporary avant garde

  12/4:

• chapter 9, part 2: Rae Armantrout, Veil; Bob Perelman, The Future of Memory