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Leader: Rose Lucas
Offered:
Not offered in 2005.
Synopsis: A study of the work of four twentieth-century American poets: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery. Topics include genres, poetic forms, metre and rhetoric; discourse theory and narratology; modern theorisations of genre, poetic form and rhetoric, especially essays by contemporary critics including Harold Bloom, John Hollander and Paul de Man.
Assessment: Two essays (4500 words each): 100%
Contact Hours: 2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week