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| LGER0066-9 | English literature b (American Literature)
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Number of credits : |
| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Teaching Focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Teaching Focus, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Teaching Focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Teaching Focus, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General | | 5 |
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| Master in Languages and Literatures : General, Professional Focus in Translation, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Languages and Literatures : General, Professional Focus in Translation, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Professional Focus in Translation, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Professional Focus in Translation, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Lecturer : | Michel Delville |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| Contemporary American Poetry:
A New Poetics for a New Century?
Prof. David Caplan (Ohio Welseyan University)
The desire for newness inspires American poets. They craft new kinds
of poetry, using new techniques, new inspirations, and new forms. In
polemics they proclaim the need to innovate: to "make it new." The new
century intensified this effort, as several schools of poetry and
individual artists proposed new poetics while enthusiastically
decrying those of rivals.
This seminar will investigate the poetry that arises from this
situation. We will study the ways in which recent poetry collections
draw models and methods from new technologies, contemporary popular
music, and popular culture. One underlying question will be why
American poetry so keenly and persistently feels the allure of the
new. To answer it, we seek to understand the particular artistic and
cultural ambitions that drive this desire. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| At the end of this seminar students will have acquired the necessary knowledge and methods to recognize and understand the vibrant, diverse, and contentious fields of contemporary American poetry and poetic form and to understand how newness
functions as a value. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| In addition to class discussion, we will enjoy the opportunity to
discuss the work with three of the assigned authors; Charles Bernstein, Andrew Hudgins, and C. Dale Young have agreed to answer the class' questions. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| face-to-face |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| REQUIRED BOOKS:
Charles Bernstein, All the Whiskey in Heaven (New York: Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 2010)
Andrew Hudgins, American Rendering: New and Selected Poems (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written paper |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Prof. David Caplan
dmcaplan@owu.edu> |
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