Philosophy's literature
Proposed to be offered next in 1996
CRT4030
Poetics
Proposed to be offered next in 1996
Kevin Hart
8 or 12 points * 2 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton
Poetics is the study of how discourses are constructed. This subject, however, attends exclusively to poetry. Its concerns will include formal composition, the nature of influence, and cultural production. The subject focuses on (a) the works of four modern American poets (Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery); and (b) the views on poetics of several twentieth-century poets and theorists, most notably Harold Bloom, Yves Bonnefoy, Jacques Derrida, John Hollander, Osip Mandelstam and Paul Valéry.
Assessment: 8 points
Two essays (3000 words each): 100%
Assessment: 12 points
Two essays (4500 words each): 100%
Prescribed texts
Ashbery J Selected poems Picador
Bishop E Complete poems Harpur
Bloom H Poetics of influence Schwab
Bonnefoy Y The act and the place of poetry Chicago
Crane H Complete poems Bloodaxe
Derida J Acts of literature Routledge
Hollander J The figure of echo Quantum
Mandelstam O The collected critical prose and letters Collins Harvill
Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics
Stevens W The palm at the end of the mind Vintage
Valéry P The art of poetry Princeton