Popular narrative fictions
Proposed to be offered next in 1996
ENH2870
Twentieth-century poetry
Proposed to be offered next in 1996
8 points * 2 hours seminar per week, with occasional lectures * Second semester * Caulfield * Prerequisites: ENH1010 and ENH1100, or approved equivalents
This subject will involve close readings of poetry in the context of the following periods and movements of the twentieth century: imagism, Eliot and the rise of modernism, the American poetic renaissance of mid-century, Australian verse and its struggle to evolve a postcolonial poetic.
Assessment
Essay (1500 words): 25% * Major essay (2500 words): 50% * Class test (1500 words): 25%
Prescribed texts
Jones P (ed.) Imagist poetry Penguin
Eliot T S Selected poems Faber
Moore G (ed.) Penguin anthology of American verse Penguin
McFarlane B and Barnes J (eds) Cross-country, 2nd edn Heinemann
Recommended texts
Buchbinder D Contemporary literary theory and the reading of poetry Macmillan