Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907
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English 628: Studies in Twentieth-Century American Literature The New York Avant-Garde, 1913-1929 Fall 2003 Professor Joseph Conte Aug. 28: Introduction: The New York Avant-Garde, 1913-1929 Sep. 4: Modernity and the Avant-Garde. Calinescu, “The Idea of Modernity” (13-92) and “The Idea of the Avant-Garde” (93-148). Sep. 11: Williams, Poems 1914-1917 (Collected Poems I, 39-59); Al Que Quiere! (1917). The “Others” group, Grantwood, NJ. Alfred Kreymborg. Man Ray.
Williams, “Painters and Parties” in The Autobiography (134‑42). Sep. 18: Williams, Kora in Hell (1920) in Imaginations; “Spirit of ‘76,” “Portrait of a Lady,” “Marianne Moore” (1920); Sour Grapes (1921). The Independents Exhibition. Charles Demuth.
Williams, “Charles Demuth” and “Sour Grapes” in
The Autobiography (151-62). Sep. 25: Williams, Spring and All (1923). Dada and Marcel Duchamp’s readymades. “The Attic Which is Desire” (1930). Charles Sheeler and precisionism.
Tashjian, “Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray” in Skyscraper Primitives
(49-70). Oct. 2: Loy, “Futurism x Feminism: The Circle Squared” and “Songs to Joannes” in The Lost Lunar Baedeker (3-68). “Aphorisms on Futurism” and “Feminist Manifesto” (149-56). Futurism and the new woman. Burke,
“Love Songs,” “Subversive Amusements (New York, 1916-17),” and “Colossus
(New York, 1917)” in Becoming Modern (195-251).
Oct. 9: Loy, “Corpses and Geniuses” and
“Compensations of Poverty” in The Lost Lunar Baedeker (71-146 ).
“Modern Poetry” (157-61). Oct. 16: Moore, Complete Poems (5-50). The women of “Others.” Moore, “‘New’ Poetry Since 1912” in Collected Prose (120‑ 24).Watson, “Poetry II: New Battles” in Strange Bedfellows (282-310). Oct. 23: Moore, Complete Poems (51-91). The Dial years.
Williams, “Marianne Moore” in Imaginations (310-20). Oct. 30: Leslie Fiedler Symposium Nov. 6: Stevens, Harmonium (1923), in Collected Poems (3-62). Cubism and prismatic vision.
Moore, “Well Moused, Lion,” review of Harmonium
in Collected Prose (91-98). Nov. 13: Stevens, Harmonium (1923), in Collected Poems (62-113). The Arensberg apartment. Duchamp’s Large Glass (1915-23). Watson,
“New York Hosts Tout le Monde” in Strange Bedfellows (237-81). Nov. 20: Stein, “Three Portraits of Painters” (1912), Tender Buttons (1914) in Selected Writings (327-35, 459-509). Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work.
Williams, “The Work of Gertrude Stein” in Imaginations (346‑53). Nov. 27: Thanksgiving Day Dec. 4: Stein and Virgil Thomson, Four Saints in Three Acts (1929) in Selected Writings (577-612). Opera in American.
David Harris, “The Original Four Saints in Three Acts.” Course Requirements For all students registered intensively, a 20-minute oral presentation on an issue related to course materials, accompanied by a one-page single-spaced précis and bibliography of additional sources; a twenty-page research paper due no later than Friday, December 12. For Master’s students registered extensively, a 20-minute oral presentation or short position paper is required for a letter grade. Required Texts: Calinescu, Matei. Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987 Loy, Mina. The Lost Lunar Baedeker. Ed. Roger L. Conover. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996. Moore, Marianne. The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore. New York: Penguin, 1981. Stein, Gertrude. Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein. New York: Vintage, 1990. Stevens, Wallace. The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. New York: Vintage, 1990. Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams. Volume I, 1909-1939. Ed. A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan. New York: New Directions, 1986. Williams. Imaginations. New York: New Directions, 1970. All texts for the course can be found at Talking Leaves Bookstore, 3158 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214; (716) 837-8554. Some additional materials will be provided in photocopy. Reserve List: Altieri, Charles. Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry. New York: Cambridge UP, 1989. PS310 M57 A58 1989 Burke, Carolyn. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996. PS3523.O975.Z58.1996 Dijkstra, Bram. Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1969. PS3545 I544 Z585 Drucker, Johanna. The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1994. Z124 .D78 1994 Dubnick, Randa. The Structure of Obscurity: Gertrude Stein, Language, and Cubism. Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1984. PS3537 T323 Z588 1984 Fredman, Stephen. Poet’s Prose: The Crisis in American Verse. New York: Cambridge UP, 1983. PS323.5 F7 1990 Green, Martin. New York 1913: The Armory Show and the Paterson Strike Pageant. New York: Scribner, 1988. N6448.A74 G76 1988 Halter, Peter. The Revolution in the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos Williams. New York: Cambridge UP, 1994. PS3545 .I544 Z589 1994 Harris, David. “The Original Four Saints in Three Acts.” Drama Review 26 (Spring 1982): 101-130. Kinnahan, Linda A. Poetics of the Feminine: Authority and Literary Tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser. New York: Cambridge UP, 1994. Poetry Collection only. Kouidis, Virginia M. Mina Loy, American Modernist Poet. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1980. PS3523 O975 73 Leavell, Linda. Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State UP, 1995. PS3525 .O5616 Z686 1995 Loy, Mina. The Last Lunar Baedeker. Ed. Roger L. Conover. Highlands, NC: Jargon Society, 1982. Poetry Collection only. MacLeod, Glen G. Wallace Stevens and Modern Art: From the Armory Show to Abstract Expressionism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. PS3537.T4753 Z6775 1993 MacGowan, Christopher J. William Carlos Williams’s Early Poetry: The Visual Arts Background. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research P, 1984. Poetry Collection only. Marling, William. William Carlos Williams and the Painters, 1909-1923. Athens: Ohio UP, 1982. PS3545 I544 Z629 Moore, Marianne. The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore. New York: Viking, 1986. PS3525 O5616 A14 1986 Sayre, Henry. The Visual Text of William Carlos Williams. Urbana: U of Chicago P, 1983. PS3545 I544 Z878 1983 Schaffner, Ingrid, and Lisa Jacobs, eds. Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. N8660 .L47 J86 1998 Schmidt, Peter. William Carlos Williams, the Arts, and Literary Tradition. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1988. PS3545 I544 Z879 1988 Shreiber, Maeera, and Keith Tuma, eds. Mina Loy: Woman and Poet. Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, 1998. L69.M.1 S37 M56 1998 Poetry Collection only. Tashjian, Dickran. Skyscraper Primitives: Dada and the American Avant-Garde, 1910-1925. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1975. NX504 T37 ---. William Carlos Williams and the American Scene, 1920-1940. New York: The Whitney Museum, 1978. PS3545 I544 Z88 Thomas, F. Richard. Literary Admirers of Alfred Stieglitz. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1983. PS228 P48 T5 1983 Watson, Steven. Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism. New York: Random House, 1998. ML410 .T452 W37 1998 ---. Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant‑Garde. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991. NX504 W38 1991 Williams, William Carlos. The Autobiography. New York: New Directions, 1967. PS 3545 I544 Z58774 1989 ---. A Recognizable Image: William Carlos Williams on Art and Artists. New York: New Directions, 1978. N745.2 W54 1978 Last Revised on Monday, August 25, 2003 Course Materials are copyright © Joseph M. Conte 2003 All Rights Reserved
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