Letterature anglo-americane LM
Anno 2012-13
Rivolto a studenti di Laurea magistrale 37 e 94
Dott. Daniela Daniele
DILE
e-mail: danadaniele@libero.it
40 hours
9 credits
Syllabus
Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Beyond
This class offers a survey of the linguistic and formal experiments of Modern poetry in the U. S.. It charts the main currents and the ability of the Avantgarde to subvert and redefine lyrical boundaries within the given tradition. Starting from the powerful rewriting of the past made by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and Louis Zukofsky and from the poetry in the “American grain” of W. C. Williams and the Southern Fugitives, we will read in the visual/textual compositions of the New York School the sources of the current transition to performance poetry, the way it was developed by the Beat poets in their jazzy style and, later on, by the new objectivism of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets.
Bibliography
American Poetry. Twentieth Century. The Library of America, vols. I-II, 2000.
David Bromwick, ed., American Sonnets: An Anthology. The Library of America, 2005.
Donald Allen, ed., The Collected Poems of Frank O’ Hara. California U. P., 1995.
Susan Howe, The Europe of Trusts. New York: New Directions, 1990.
Cole Swensen and David St. John, eds., American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry. New York: Norton, 2009.
Suggested Readings
William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain (1925). New York: New Directions, 1956.
Julia Kristeva, Revolution of Poetic Language, tr. di Margaret Waller. New York: Columbia U. P., 1984.
David Lehman, The Last Avant-Garde. The Making of the New York School of Poets. Anchor, 1999.
Charles Bernstein, Attack of the Difficult Poems. Essays and Inventions. Chicago-London: Chicago U. P., 2011.
Lawrence Venuti, The Translator’s Invisibility. A History of Translation. Routledge, 1995.
Requirements
A final paper (complete with footnotes and bibliography) on critical issues raised by the poetry and poetics discussed. Translation specialists are encouraged to select (under the instructor’s supervision) works by modern and contemporary American poets not available in Italian translation.
N. B. Students unable to attend classes must see the instructor before the exam and agree on additional
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