Estudios Ingleses. (Plan a extinguir)
Grado y Doble Grado. Curso 2023/2024.
LA POESÍA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DESDE 1950 - 802228
Curso Académico 2023-24
Datos Generales
- Plan de estudios: 0835 - GRADO EN ESTUDIOS INGLESES (2009-10)
- Carácter: Optativa
- ECTS: 6.0
SINOPSIS
COMPETENCIAS
Generales
(a) Conceptual (knowledge)
1- Conocimiento instrumental de la lengua inglesa a un nivel elevado.
Instrumental knowledge of the English language at an advanced level
2 - Conocimiento de las literaturas en lengua inglesa.
Knowledge of the literatures in English.
4 - Conocimiento de la historia y cultura de los países de lengua inglesa.
Knowledge of the history and culture of English-speaking countries.
(b) Procedimentales:
(b) Procedural (skills & abilities)
5 - Capacidad para negociar, hacerse entender, redactar informes y documentos, manejar información masiva y compleja y utilizar herramientas informáticas y presentar en público productos, ideas e informes, todo ello en lengua inglesa.
Ability to negotiate, make oneself understood, write reports and documents, handle massive and complex information, use computer tools and present publicly products, ideas and reports in English.
7 - Capacidad para comprender e integrar información procedente de diversas fuentes, y encuadrarla en distintas perspectivas teóricas.
Ability to process and integrate information from a variety of sources, framing it in different theoretical perspectives.
(c) Actitudinales:
(c) Attitudinal :
9- Desarrollo de una actitud reflexiva y crítica sobre la lengua inglesa, su cultura y sus literaturas.
Development of a reflexive and critical attitude towards the English language, its cultures, and its literatures.
10 - Desarrollo, tanto personal como intelectual, de actitudes de convivencia y diálogo entre ideologías, géneros y etnias, así como a la profundización en culturas ajenas que impone el estudio de las literaturas en lengua inglesa.
Personal and intellectual development of attitudes of coexistence and dialogue between diverse ideologies, genders and ethnic groups, as well as insights into the cultures reflected in the study of literatures in the English language.
Específicas
Module of In-depth study of Literature in English, Core Subject 19) [The Poetry of the United States since 1950; Poetry in Britain since 1950].
The student will be able to identify and analyze the aesthetic elements characterizing English and American postmodernist poetry, to express critical judgments both on the poems and different poetic trends in relation to their historical context, and to evaluate their influence on the current socio-cultural context.
ACTIVIDADES DOCENTES
Clases teóricas
1. Lectures on the general contents, specific authors, poetic movements and poets included in the syllabus.
Clases prácticas
3. Grupos de debate y puesta en común de la información adquirida en los puntos anteriores. Estos grupos de debate contarán con la tutela y la dirección de un profesor. El trabajo y la participación activa del alumno en estos grupos será reflejado en la evaluación.
2. Close reading of representative poems by salient authors.
3. Debates and group work on the contents of the syllabus. These groups and debate sessions will be supervised by the course's instructor. Students' work and participation will be counted toward the evaluation of the students' performance.
TOTAL
Clases teóricas y prácticas, seminarios: 42-47
Exámenes y pruebas específicas: 3-6 horas
Classroom activity: approx. 50 hours divided as follows:
Theory, debate, practical reading: approx. 42-45
Exams and other tests: approx. 3-6 hours
Actividades no presenciales: aprox. 100-102 horas, dedicadas a las siguientes tareas:
Preparación de ejercicios, trabajos y / o exposiciones orales
Lectura de la bibliografía obligatoria
Personal work by the student: approx. 100-102 hours, devoted to the following tasks:
Preparation of exercises, exams, debate or group work
Required redings
Presenciales
No presenciales
Semestre
Breve descriptor:
La asignatura aborda el estudio del fenómeno poético en EEUU a través de un recorrido temático y cronológico por corrientes fundamentales posteriores a 1950. Se trata de explorar la ausencia o continuidad de la experimentación modernista en la poesía contemporánea. La asignatura ofrecerá estrategias de lectura crítica para explicar la transición del yo lírico de una poesía tradicional y formalista hacia un yo fracturado de múltiples voces, visto a través del prisma de la vanguardia y de la experimentación más reciente.
This course studies significant themes and movements of US Poetry and Poetics after 1950. The course aims to analyze the continuity of modernist experimentation (or absence thereof) in contemporary US poetry. The course offers strategies for critical reading which helps understand the transition from the lyrical self of traditional, formalist poetry to the multifaceted and fractured poetic voice in the manifestations of the recent avant garde.
Objetivos
El objetivo fundamental es presentar al alumno la historia de la poesía norteamericana de las últimas décadas y examinar con detenimiento la producción poética más notable. Aunque la secuencia cronológica presente una visión panorámica, el curso tiene un carácter especializado que se concretará mediante la selección de los autores de las corrientes poéticas más relevantes.
Otros objetivos de la asignatura son los siguientes:
Reflexionar sobre categorías y conceptos fundamentales de la creatividad poética, tales como autor, texto, y significado poético.
Desarrollar la capacidad de lectura crítica del texto poético y fomentar la reflexión sobre el proceso de creación poética.
Conocer ensayos fundamentales que rigen la teoría poética contemporánea en EEUU.
The course''s main aim is to present the history of American poetry since 1950 and to examine its most notable paradigms. Despite the chronological and panoramic sequence of the course, the texts and authors studied emphasize the specialized nature of the poetic phenomenon.
-Reconsider fundamental concepts and categories of poetic creativity, such as
Contenido
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The sociopolitical scene in the USA after World War II. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. Eisenhower and “the tranquilized fifties”. The Civil Rights Movement in the 60s. The Vietnam War. Economic and political crises in the 70s: the Nixon and Ford administrations. The conservative turn of the eighties. The Clinton administration. The new century: George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The Trump Presidency.
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Confessional Poetry: Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton.
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Black Mountain Poets / Projective Verse / San Francisco Renaissance: Charles Olson, Robert Creeley.
The poetry of witness and the affirmation of gender: Denise Levertov.
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Beats and Performers: Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure.
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The New York School: John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara.
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The Material Word of Disjunctive Poetics: Susan Howe. The Language Poets.
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Conceptualisms and Beyond: Poetic Voices in the 21st Century. Claudia Rankine, Kenneth Goldsmith, Christian Bök.
Evaluación
La información sobre los porcentajes de evaluación contenida en esta ficha tiene carácter orientativo. Véase el apartado "Otra información relevante" al final de esta ficha docente.
Continuous evaluation. The evaluation of the student's work will be based on: 1) classroom participation of the student (approx 10-20%); 2) written exercises, essays or tests (approx. 30-40%); 3) final exam (approx. 50-70%).
The percentages here presented are merely for guidance purposes. Please see section "Other relevant information" at the end of this document.
Bibliografía
Bennet, Paula. My Life a Loaded Gun: Female Creativity and Feminist Poetics. Beacon Press, 1986.
Blasing, Mutlu Konuk. Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill. Cambridge, UK, 1995.
Bly, Robert. American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity. Harper, 1990.
Breslin, James E. B. From Modern to Contemporary: American Poetry Since the Fifties. Chicago, 1987.
Conte, Joseph ed. American Poets Since World War II. Detroit, 1996.
Damon, Maria. The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry. Minneapolis, 1989.
Davison, Peter. The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, 1955-1960, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath. New York, 1994.
Davidson, Michael. Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word. U of California, 1997.
Howe, Susan. The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History. Wesleyan, 1993.
Middlebrook, Diane and Marilyn Yalom. Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century. Michigan, 1985.
Perloff, Marjorie. The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition. Cambridge, 1985.
_____ , The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage. Princeton, 1981.
______, 21-First Century Modernism. Blackwell, 2002.
Reinfeld, Linda. Language Poetry: Writing as Rescue. 1992.
Otra información relevante
Se recomienda cursar esta asignatura en el semestre 8 (4º curso, segundo semestre) una vez el alumno se haya familiarizado con los contenidos de las asignaturas obligatorias de literatura propuestas para los semestres 6, 7 y 8.
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The information of the present document in no way replaces the actual program of the course, which is the written file where activities, materials, required readings, contents and evaluation will be explained in detail. On the first day of the course such a program will be distributed in the classroom, and will also be uploaded to the virtual campus of the course and/or left at the copy service of the school if the teacher so deems it necessary.
It is highly recommended that students take this elective course in their 8th semester (4th year), once the student is familiar with literature surveys required for the 6th, 7th, and 8th semesters.
Estructura
Módulos | Materias |
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PROFUNDIZACIÓN EN LITERATURA EN LENGUA INGLESA | POESÍA CONTEMPORÁNEA |
Grupos
Clases teóricas y/o prácticas | ||||
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Grupo | Periodos | Horarios | Aula | Profesor |
Grupo A | 22/01/2024 - 08/05/2024 | JUEVES 12:30 - 14:30 | A-48 | EUSEBIO DE LORENZO GOMEZ |
VIERNES 12:30 - 14:30 | A-48 | EUSEBIO DE LORENZO GOMEZ |