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2022-232023-24
Module will run
Occurrence
Teaching period
A
Semester 1 2024-25
Module aims
To give students the opportunity to develop their aesthetic discrimination in, and enjoyment of, poetry;
To provide a research-led basis for the postgraduate study of poetry and poetics;
To offer a sophisticated approach to concepts of genre, periodicity and poetic language;
To enable students to develop advanced skills of formal analysis;
To provide an introduction to key concepts in poetics from classical to post-modern poetry;
To enable students to recognise issues of translation and cross-cultural poetic influence;
To introduce students to advanced theoretical issues in contemporary international poetics.
Module learning outcomes
By the end of the module, students will be able to
Undertake a research-led essay project addressing the aims of the module;
Have considerable knowledge of issues of genre, periodicity and language;
Undertake with confidence the advanced formal analysis of poetry;
Grasp significant issues in poetics in English and languages other than English;
Be aware of the theoretical and aesthetic implications when poetry crosses different linguistic and poetic traditions;
Write and speak with confidence about a variety of advanced contemporary theories of poetry.
In addition
Students will demonstrate advanced skills of writing appropriate for a post-graduate degree;
Demonstrate the ability to progress to sustained independent study;
Gain a set of skills which will provide a grounding for other modules in poetry or in the MA programmes offered by the Department of English and Related Literature.
Indicative assessment
Task
% of module mark
Essay/coursework
100
Special assessment rules
None
Indicative reassessment
Task
% of module mark
Essay/coursework
100
Module feedback
You are provided with feedback within the 6-week University deadline.
For more information about the feedback you will receive for your work, see section 12 of the department's Guide to Assessment (PDF , 1,244kb).
Indicative reading
Poetry: emphasis will be on the reading of poetic texts from a number of periods and authors as offered by contributors to the course.
Poetics may allude to one of a number of possible texts: Plato, The Republic; Aristotle, Poetics; Sidney, Defence of Poesy; Kant, Critique of Judgement; Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads; Coleridge, Biographia Literaria; Eliot, Essays; Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity; Stevens, The Necessary Angel; Olson, The Human Universe; Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence; Kristeva, Revolution in Poetic Language; De Man, Blindness and Insight; Culler, Structuralist Poetics; Perloff, The Poetics of Indeterminacy; Longenbach, The Resistance to Poetry; Stewart, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses; Muldoon, The End of the Poem; Leighton, On Form; Attridge, Moving Words.