Lehrende/r: Dr. Philipp Reisner
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: AS 410
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: This class is taught by Dr. Philipp Reisner.
Inhalt: In this course, we will explore the greatest possible variety of recent American war poetry with a focus on cycles of poetry published since the 1980s. We will be focusing on war as an imaginative and literary concept and reality and on its reception and aesthetic repercussions in contemporary poetry. This will allow us not only to discover different traditions and poetic voices, but also the sacred impulse at the heart of a larger strand of contemporary poetry. As a consequence, we will critically engage concepts such as the poetry of witness and the distinction between neo-formalism and experimental poetry, focus on the scientifically and literarily neglected wars like the Korean War, and discover a new generation of American poets still barely known in Europe.
Empfohlene Literatur: Suji Kwock Kim, Notes from the divided country: poems (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2003) ISBN 0807128732. Kathleen Ossip, The Cold War: Poems (Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books, 2011). ISBN 978-1932511956. These books have been ordered at the campus bookstore; all other texts and a syllabus will be made available electronically.
