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Instructors: Dr. Rene Dietrich
Event type:
Proseminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Proseminar I
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: PS I AS
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
This course traces the development of American poetry since 1900 to the present. Selecting a number of authors that will be discussed in detail in each session, it begins with a look at the Modernist innovations that in varying ways reflect Pound’s dictum to ‘make it new!’, while also paying attention to the plurality of Modernist voices demonstrated for instance by the Harlem Renaissance. Moving on to the period from the 1950s to the present, the course focuses on a variety of postwar movements whose experiments both radicalized and challenged Modernist poetics, and concludes by trying to grasp some of the ethnical, formal and political diversity characterizing American poetry today. Poets to be discussed include Williams, Eliot, Moore, Hughes, Ginsberg, Plath, Bernstein, Dove and Harjo. Discussions will pay particular attention to the changing views on what poetry is and does, and the interactions of the texts with their particular historical and cultural contexts.
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