History of Anglo-American Literature,

3^rd Semester,

(studia zaoczne)

mgr Tobiasz Cwynar

American Literature Part Two,

Syllabus + (Primary) Reading List.

1. American Renaissance: the fiction (two meetings):

Nathaniel Hawthorne, “My Kinsman, Major Molineaux”,

“Rapaccini's Daughter”,

“The Birth-Mark”;

Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”,

“William Wilson”,

“Ligeia”,

“The Poetic Principle” (fragments),

“The Philosophy of Composition” (fragments);

Herman Melville, “The Paradise of Bachelors, the Tartarus of Maids”,

“Bartleby, the Scrivener”.

2. American Renaissance and Beyond (two meetings):

Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”;

Emily Dickinson, (479),

(578),

(656),

(1096);

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn;

3. Modernism: the poetry (three meetings):

Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro”,

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley;

H[ilda]. D[oolittle]., “Oread”,

“Adonis”,

“Hermes of the Ways”,

“The Helmsman”.

William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow”,

“The Wind Increases”,

“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”,

Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning”,

“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”,

Hart Crane, “Legend”,

“Voyages I”,

“Chaplinesque”.

4. Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction:

William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying;

Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49.

5. The Post-War Poetry (two meetings):

Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus”,

Allen Ginsberg, Howl,

“A Footnote to Howl”;

John Ashbery, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”;

Denise Levertov, “The Freeing of the Dust”,

“The Life of Others”,

“Web”;

Gary Snyder, “Riprap”,

“(second shaman song)”,

“Old Woman Nature”,

“Ripples on the Surface”,

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