CRT5030 - Poetics
12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL
Postgraduate Faculty of Arts
Leader(s): Rose Lucas
Offered
Not offered in 2009
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
13 October 2017
25 August 2024