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Instructors: Dr. Philipp Reisner
Event type:
online: Graduate seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.532
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Requirements / organisational issues:
BLOCKSEMINAR 07.&21. November, 05.&12. December 2020, 12:00-18:00 Online
Contents:
In this course, we will explore the greatest possible variety of recent American poetry with a focus on cycles of poetry published since the 1980s. We will be focusing on biblical presence within this poetry and how it shapes the structure of cycles, the choice of motifs, and the language employed. 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, and discover a new generation of American poets still barely known in Europe.
Recommended reading list:
Texts and Readings:
Suji Kwock Kim, Notes from the divided country: poems (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2003) ISBN 0807128732.
Li-Young Lee, Behind My Eyes: poems (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008). ISBN 978-0393334814.
These books have been ordered, but are not readily available at the campus bookstore; you therefore are required to order them soon, because they might take longer to deliver if they have to be mailed from abroad. All other texts and a syllabus will be made available electronically in the seminar reader. In addition, you will also procure critical materials from local libraries and appropriate online sources.
Additional information:
Requirements
- regular attendance (no more than two absences)*
- active participation in class discussions
- an online presentation (see below)*
- satisfactory completion of a “paper proposal” for a term paper (see below)*
- term paper (6.000 words)
- procure and read assigned poetry cycles prior to the beginning of the seminar
* These requirements need to be fulfilled in order to obtain credit for this class (“aktive Teilnahme”).
Digital teaching:
BLOCKSEMINAR 07.&21. November, 05.&12. December 2020, 12:00-18:00 Online
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