the English 88v schedule

• introduction - week 1a (Sept 13-16)

• chapter 1: extensive and intensive Americans - weeks 1b, 2a, 2b (Sept 16-26)

• chapter 2: modernism - weeks 4a through 6a (Oct 4-Oct 20)

• chapter 3: the reaction "against" modernism: the radical 1930s - week 6b (Oct 21-24)

• chapter 4: the reaction "against" modernism: the Harlem Renaissance - week 7a (Oct 25-28)

• chapter 5: the reaction "against" modernism: the case of Robert Frost - week 7b (Oct 28-31)

• chapter 6: the "new formalists" of the 1950s: modernism at dead end? - week 8a (Nov 1-4)

• chapter 7: breaking fifties' conformity: the beats (and the spoken word) - weeks 8b, 9a (Nov 4-10)

• chapter 8: the New York Poets & the rise of postmodernism - weeks 9b, 10a, 10b (Nov 11-21)

• Thanksgiving (no new readings - Nov 22-28)

• chapter 9: language poetry and the contemporary avant garde - weeks 11a, 11b, 12a, 12b, 13a (Nov 29-Dec 15)

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