CRT5030

Poetics ( 12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL)

Leader: Rose Lucas

Offered:
Not offered in 2006.

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