Lehrende/r: Dr. Wolfgang Funk
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 6,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: ELC 122
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: This course will provide a systematic approach to the analysis and interpretation of poetry. Students will be acquainted with essential formal features of the genre such as metre, rhyme, stylistic devices, types of poems, etc. Following this, strategies for combining aspects of form and content will be introduced, applied and practised in order to unlock the "secret life of poems" (Tom Paulin). The texts which we will encounter range from the earliest literary writing in the English language to contemporary poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Kate Tempest and Andrew McMillan. We will use the lens of poetry to inquire into all kinds of thematic aspects, including, as one would expect, love, sex, death and grief, but also politics, sports, soul-searching and the human condition as such. Above all, the aim of this course will be to uncover and revel in the magic of poetic language, its power to condense complex and abstract thoughts and ideas into captivating, moving and delightful lines. Required Reading: Robert, Phil. How Poetry Works. 2nd ed. London: Penguin, 2000. (Please buy this book before the first session.) Recommended Reading: Frank, Horst J. Wie interpretiere ich ein Gedicht? 6th ed. Tübingen: Francke/Ullstein, 2003. Fry, Stephen. The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within. London: Arrow Books, 2007. Paulin, Tom. The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer. London: Faber and Faber, 2008. The poems we will be discussing will be made available via LMS in the course of the semester.
