Undergraduate - UnitATS4265 - Poetics

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
Offered	Not offered in 2013
Coordinator(s)	Dr Ali Alizadeh

Notes

Previously coded CLS4030

Synopsis

Genres, poetic forms, metre and rhetoric. Discourse theory and narratology. Modern theorisations of genre, poetic form and rhetoric. Essays by contemporary critics including Harold Bloom, John Hollander and Paul de Man. In this seminar we will look closely at the work of four twentieth-century American poets: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery.

Assessment

Two essays (4500 words each): 100%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Ali Alizadeh

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions

APG4265