Lehrende/r: Dominik Wallerius
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 6,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: BS/ELC 122
Inhalt: This proseminar is focused on poetry, i.e. on language that is selected, arranged, twisted, formed and even disfigured in order to express emotions and ideas or simply to look at the world from a different perspective. The period of Romanticism (ca. 1789-1832) produced a large number of remarkable examples of how these goals can be achieved, and we will therefore look at several Romantic poets and exemplary poems they produced. The course is intended as a companion to Studying English Literature (both lecture and proseminar), in which you encountered many poetic elements already. A thorough knowledge of the contents of that class is therefore a requirement for successful participation in this proseminar. Building upon those basics, we will look at diverse poems and focus on how their respective genre, form, rhyme, metre, imagery and voices contribute to their overall meaning. In other words, our discussions will emphasise form and only occasionally look at context. My hope for this proseminar is not that students fall deeply in love with poetry. A more modest, and realistic, goal is that after you have completed this class, you will have a firm grasp of a number of tools which make you feel equipped to read and analyse any (poetic) text. My second hope is that you will agree that this can actually be fun.
Empfohlene Literatur: I recommend: Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. 4th. Francke, 2011. (or an older edition), if you feel the need for revising the contents of Studying English Literature. In addition, two very good introductions to poetry are (in alphabetical order): Bode, Christoph. Einführung in die Lyrikanalyse. WVT, 2001. Furniss, Tom, and Michael Bath. Reading Poetry: An Introduction. Longman-Pearson, 1996. Apart from that, all primary course texts will be made available in class.
