MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

CRT4030

Poetics

Proposed to be offered next in 1997

Kevin Hart

Synopsis Poetics is the study of how discourses are constructed. This subject, however, attends exclusively to poetry. Its concerns will include formal composition, the nature of influence, and cultural production. The subject focuses on (a) the works of four modern American poets (Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery); and (b) the views on poetics of several twentieth-century poets and theorists, most notably Harold Bloom, Yves Bonnefoy, Jacques Derrida, John Hollander, Osip Mandelstam and Paul Valéry.

Assessment (8 points) Two essays (3000 words each): 100%

Assessment (12 points) Two essays (4500 words each): 100%

Prescribed texts

• Ashbery J Selected poems Picador
• Bishop E Complete poems Harpur
• Bloom H Poetics of influence Schwab
• Bonnefoy Y The act and the place of poetry Chicago
• Crane H Complete poems Bloodaxe
• Derida J Acts of literature Routledge
• Hollander J The figure of echo Quantum
• Mandelstam O The collected critical prose and letters Collins Harvill
• Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics
• Stevens W The palm at the end of the mind Vintage
• Valéry P The art of poetry Princeton