1. Introduction

2. Methods of Transmission I: World Literature

Pascale Casanova, from The World Republic of Letters, chapter 1, "Principles of a World Literature History"; passages from the rest of the book.
Christopher Prendergast, Introduction and "The World Republic of Letters" from Debating World Literature
David Damrosch, What is World Literature? Introduction & Conclusion
Franco Moretti, "Conjectures on World Literature"

3. Methods of Transmission II: Transnationalism

Khagram, Sanjeev, and Peggy Levitt, eds. The Transnational Studies Reader (2008), ch. 1
Jahan Ramazani, A Transnational Poetics (2009), ch. 1 and 2

4. Cold War

Cold War Politics and Culture Timeline
George Kennan, Long Telegram

5. Cold War Culture

Pavla Veselá, "Literature in the Cold War"
David Monod, "‘He is a Cripple an’ Needs my Love’: Porgy and Bess as Cold War Propaganda". In The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945-1960. Eds Hans Krabbendam and Giles Scott-Smith (2003), 252-62.
Adam Piette, The Literary Cold War: 1945 to Vietnam (2009). Introduction and ch. 3
Frances Stonor-Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Letters (2000), Introduction and ch. 15

6. Poetry: Czech Context (8-15 Nov)

Antonín Brousek, ed. Podivuhodní kouzelníci: čítanka českého stalinismu v řeči vázané z let 1945-55 (1987), Afterword
Pavel Kosatík. Fenomén Kohout. Chapters "Poezie", "Trefulka". 111-22.
Selections from Brousek anthology

7. The View from Prague: Zábrana’s America (22 Nov)

Jan Zábrana, ed. Pátá roční doba: americká radikální poezie (1959)
Justin Quinn, ‘Between Two Fires: Poetry and Cold War Translation’

8. Poetry of the American Left (29 Nov)

Alan Filreis. "Modern Poetry and Anticommunism" (2005)
Cary Nelson, "From the Great Depression to the Red Scare: The Poetry of Edwin Rolfe" (2001)
Thomas McGrath, selection from Movie at the End of the World
Thomas McGrath Links:
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/mcgrath/mcgrath.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfqI_6lx7tA
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/thomas-mcgrath

6 December: Presentation by Brian Goodman on Philip Roth, Ivan Klíma and Cold War Prose.

9. Jan Zábrana’s Cold War Poetry (13-20 Dec)

Stránky z deníku (1968)