ENGL 40761 - American Culture as Collage

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

One of the exciting aspects of American culture is that we make it up as we go along: there is no historical or traditional or divine template that we all agree to follow. Without a template, American artists and thinkers have often resorted to a "kitchen-sink" approach to representing American culture, which begs the question of how to create a form to contain all the marvelous odds and ends. We will trace this urge to capture American culture through the form of a collage in R. W. Emerson's essays, H. D. Thoreau's Walden, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, Ezra Pound's Cantos, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Charles Reznikoff's Testimony, Langston Hughes' Montage of a Dream Deferred, Assemblage art of the fifties and sixties, Charles Olson's Maximus Poems, and A New Literary History of America.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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