September 29 - October 5
Section outline
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History
Tuesday: Read: Michael Tratner, "Politics and Modernist Poetry." A History of Modernist Poetry. Ed. Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Also examine a Picasso painting, The Demoiselles d'avignon, two Masks from African countries, and a direct comparison of faces in the painting and those masks. Also read Langston Hughes, "Cubes"; William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" and "Easter, 1916"
Friday: Read an Excerpt from The History of Art, by H. W. Janson, Wallace Stevens, "Bantam in the Pine Woods"; "Two Figures in Dense Violet Light"; T.S. Eliot, "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" and "Burbank with a Baedeker, Bleistein with a Cigar."“ Optional additional reading: Michael North, “The Dialect of Modernism”