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
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
Ability to organize data and present in written and oral forms
Ability to think critically and participate in critical debate
Readings
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.
