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Welcome, class! This is the website we’ll be editing for the online component of the Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures II at AHE this semester. Each post in the Blog section is dedicated to a selected text we are discussing according to the syllabus, and includes two sections for you to fill in: (1) critical analysis and interpretation of the text, and (2) background information useful for understanding the text. You will be receiving detailed instructions on how to fill these in via email.
For more information about editing the site check out http://learn.wordpress.com/
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Week 13: Multiculturalism and “New Sincerity”
The readings for this week are no less “postmodern” than what we’ve discussed last week; however, they are all postmodern in a somewhat different way. Rather than with philosophical and linguistic experiment per se, they are thematically engaged with the postmodern condition of living in a globalized and multicultural world. This world, like the philosophically…
Weeks 11, 12, and Beyond: Postmodernism
All the readings scheduled from Week 11 onward are, in one way or another, postmodern texts. Postmodernism is a term used in a variety of ways, and critics and theorists from various disciplines of arts and sciences continue to disagree about its precise meaning – perhaps aptly so, as the uncertainty of meaning, distrust of…
Week 10: After 1945 – An Introduction
Allen Ginsberg reading “America” Sylvia Plath reading “Lady Lazarus” Blythe Danner reading “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop Frank O’Hara reading “The Day Lady Died” – film fragment providing context for the poem Gwendolyn Brooks reading “We Real Cool.” Also, please see the wonderful animation + musical score for the poem on Poetry Foundation’s website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/video/142394/we-real-cool…
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