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Lehrende/r: Dr. Wolfgang Funk
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
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05.874.313
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: BS/ELC 313
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
This course will deal with the, presumably, most English of all poetic form, the sonnet. We will investigate the specific formal restraints, thematic codes and contextual situations in the long tradition of this form, from its introduction into English culture in the early 16th century up to the present day. Along the way we will encounter some of the greatest poets in the English language (Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Wordsworth, Barrett Browning, Owen, Austen, Larkin, Duffy) and discover how the sonnet’s productive tension between formal restraint and poetic creativity has been used to explore not only, as one would expect, love, sex, death and grief, but also politics, sports, soul-searching and the human condition as such.
Required Purchase:
Boland, Eavan, and Edward Hirsch, eds. The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology. New York: Norton, 2010.
this includes (almost) all the poems we will be discussing in class
Recommended Background Reading:
- Barrett, Rajan. The Self and the Sonnet. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
- Cousins, Anthony D., ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet. Cambridge: CUP, 2011.
- Spiller, Michael. The Development of the Sonnet: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 1992.
- Wolosky, Shira. The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem. Oxford: OUP, 2008.
Critical background texts as well as any additional poems will be made available via the Reader either in advance or in the course of the semester.
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