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RICCIARDI CATERINA
(syllabus)
Some Versions of Disenchantment in American Poetry Four poems by major American poets will offer the ground for a close reading of the poetic text, and an investigation of the growing disenchanted mood in American poetry in light of the impingement of the changing historical conditions. Translation studies will be under scrutiny.
(reference books)
E. A. Poe, The Raven; T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men; Ezra Pound, Canto 45; Allen Ginsberg, Howl. The poems are available in anthologies of American poetry, and in the Selected/Collected Poems of the individual poets.
Criticism: The Cambridge Companions to the individual poets; on T. S. Eliot: Caterina Ricciardi, Una lettura di The Hollow Men di T. S. Eliot (Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2017); selected chapters from A New Literary History of America (ed. by Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors, Boston, Harvard University Press, 2009).
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