ALit7-518 American Poetry
ALit7-518 American Poetry
Elective
| Teaching hours: 3 |
ECTS: 10
Description
This course will familiarize students with the poetic experimentations of Charles Olson, Jack Spicer, Susan Howe, Lorenzo Thomas, Johanna Drucker and Stephanie Strickland covering the period between 1960s-1990s. Attention will be paid to their textual-paratextual compositions through the study of various poems and poetic essays.
Learning outcomes and competences:
- Familiarization with various typographical arrangements of poetic texts
- Attention to visual, palimpsestic or digital poetic experimentations
- Emphasis on how poetic avant-gardist work links to the broader community
- Attention to the subversive narrative strategies poetic writings generate
- Establishing connections between poetic experimental writings and various socio-cultural and political crises in addition to technological innovations as these emerged in the U.S. between 1960s-1990s
- Acquisition of critical analytical ability in the commentary of primary texts as well as theoretical essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Walter Benjamin, Peter Burger, Marjorie Perloff and others
- Practice in oral presentations, close textual analysis and class discussion
Recommended reading:
A course outline and bibliography will be made available to students at the beginning of classes
Assessment methods:
Two (2) oral presentations followed by reports, essay of 5.000 words, homework, class participation.
Teaching
The course is not currently offerred.
