Objectives and competences
To familiarize students with the forms, themes and styles of twentieth and twenty-first century English and American poetry, including modernism and post-modernism.
To familiarize students with theoretical concepts of modern literary criticism.
To enable students to apply critical theory to poetic texts
To find a role for poetry in the classroom
Content (Syllabus outline)
Diction Register
• Images and Metaphor
• Symbol and Allegory
• Irony and Satire
• Sound in Poetry
• Rhythm and Metre
• Fixed forms and vers libre
• Formalist and Archetypal strategies
• Historical and New-historical strategies
• Reader Response strategies
• Psychoanalytical strategies
• Feminist and Marxist strategies
• Deconstruction
• Writing about poetry: writing poetry
Learning and teaching methods
lectures,
• seminars.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and Understanding: On completion of this course the student will be able to:
appreciate and intelligently discuss modern poetry
relate poetry criticism to poetic texts
write coherent analytical essays on the subject of modern poetry
to formulate a pedagogical approach to a particular poem/poet
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Transferable/Key Skills and other attributes:
Ability to organize data and present in written and oral forms
Ability to think critically and participate in critical debate
Readings
Stockwell, Peter. 2002. Cognitive Poetics: an Introduction. London; New York: Routledge.
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry Ed. R. Ellmann et al. Norton, 2003.
Poetry: An Introduction, Michael Meyer. Boston: Bedford Books St Martin’s Press, 1995.
Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry, D. Gioia, D. Mason & M. Schoerke. McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Prerequisits
Attendance of 80% and regular completion of coursework are required for taking the exam.
Additional information on implementation and assessment Oral presentation - 30%
• Written assignment -30%
• Written exam - 40%
