123226 SE Literature Seminar / BA-Paper / MA American/North American Lit./Studies (2015S)
American Poetry
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 09.02.2015 00:00 to Su 15.02.2015 23:59
- Registration is open from Tu 24.02.2015 00:00 to Su 01.03.2015 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Tu 31.03.2015 23:59
Details
max. 20 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
This is a block seminar!
It will consist of intense 4-hour sessions on March 17, April 14, April 21, May 5, and June 16, with additional guest lectures on May 11 (6 p.m.) and May 19 (10 a.m.); with possible additions to the schedule. Please save all these dates and register only if you are available for all regular sessions (Tuesday 4 pm to 8 pm).
- Tuesday 17.03. 16:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 14.04. 16:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 21.04. 16:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 05.05. 16:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 16.06. 16:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
In spite of many claims to the contrary, poetry is not a dying genre. As Alexandra Petri writes in a recent blog for the Washington Post: “Poetry is like Hyman Roth in The Godfather: Part II. It is always dying, in theory. But if you want it to stop walking around, you have to send a guy to meet it at the airport.” This seminar will steer clear of airports and is instead dedicated to the close analysis of American poems from different periods in literary history. If you have always felt either particularly hesitant or particularly enthusiastic about poetry, this might just be your course. In addition to intense workshops of literary and cultural analysis, close reading, and experiments with poetry in the classroom, we will touch upon key periods in American literary history.
Assessment and permitted materials
Regular attendance of all class meetings, active participation, presentation and final seminar paper
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
This course will provide both theoretical revisions and in-depth practice of students’ skills in the analysis of poetry. In addition to working with key poems from American literary history, we will also look at the application of various literary and cultural theories. A joint session with a seminar group from the University of Texas at Austin will add an intercultural angle.
Examination topics
Interactive discussions in class, team work, presentations, composition, independent research and visual media
Reading list
Please read HD's “Oread” until the first session.
A list of further poems will be provided: the tentative list consists of the following, and
most of these poems are in the Norton Anthology of American Literature!
Please read HD's "Oread"; until the first session.
A list of further poems will be provided: the tentative list consists of the following, and
most of these poems are in the Norton Anthology of American Literature!
Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Book";, "To my Dear and Loving Husband"; Edward Taylor, "Huswifery"; Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Snow Storm"; William Cullen Bryant, "Sonnet to an American Painter Departing for Europe"; William Wadsworth Longfellow, "Mezzo Cammin"; Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"; Emily Dickinson, "To Make a Prairie", "I heard a Fly Buzz"; Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"; Allen Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California"; Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro", Robert Frost,"Stopping By Woods", e.e. cummings, "next to of course god"; Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"; Claude McKay, "If We Must Die"
A list of further poems will be provided: the tentative list consists of the following, and
most of these poems are in the Norton Anthology of American Literature!
Please read HD's "Oread"; until the first session.
A list of further poems will be provided: the tentative list consists of the following, and
most of these poems are in the Norton Anthology of American Literature!
Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Book";, "To my Dear and Loving Husband"; Edward Taylor, "Huswifery"; Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Snow Storm"; William Cullen Bryant, "Sonnet to an American Painter Departing for Europe"; William Wadsworth Longfellow, "Mezzo Cammin"; Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"; Emily Dickinson, "To Make a Prairie", "I heard a Fly Buzz"; Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"; Allen Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California"; Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro", Robert Frost,"Stopping By Woods", e.e. cummings, "next to of course god"; Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"; Claude McKay, "If We Must Die"
Association in the course directory
Studium: UF 344, BA 612, MA 844;
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-322, BA 10.2, MA5, MA7;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0264
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-322, BA 10.2, MA5, MA7;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0264
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