Cultures of the Avant-Garde
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5EN536
Main group 1
- Bellamy, Dodie; Killian, Kevin, Writers who love too much: new narrative 1977-1997, New York, Nightboat Books, [2017]Compulsory
- Bellamy, Dodie, Cunt-ups, 17th anniversary edition., New York City, Tender Buttons, 2018Compulsory
- Carrington, Leonora; Smith, Ali, The hearing trumpet, London, Penguin, 2005Compulsory
- Ducornet, Rikki, The plotinus, Minneapolis, Coffee House Press, 2023Compulsory
- O'Hara, Frank et al., The New York poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler: an anthology, Manchester, Carcanet, 2004Compulsory
- Glück, Robert; Tóibín, Colm, Margery Kempe, New York, New York Review Books, 2020Compulsory
- Hejinian, Lyn, My life and My life in the nineties, 2013Compulsory
- Lehman, David, The last avant-garde: the making of the New York School of poets, 1. Anchor Books ed., New York, Anchor Books, 1999Compulsory
- Morrison, Toni, Beloved, London, Vintage Classic, 2007Compulsory
- Quin, Ann, Berg, London, And Other Stories, 2019Compulsory
- Stein, Gertrude, Tender buttons, The corrected centennial edition., San Francisco, City Lights Books, 2014Compulsory
Excerpts from works by a range of writers including Amiri Baraka, André Breton, Peter Burger, Leonora Carrington, Aimé Césaire, Hélène Cixous, Ithell Colquhoun, David Gascoyne, and Roland Penrose, as well as online texts and performances.
* Compulsory