Undergraduate Course: Poet-Critics: the Style of Modern Poetry (ENLI10257)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
English Literature |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/undergraduate/Honours/FourthYear/4thYear_Home.htm |
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| Course description |
This course re-examines the aesthetics of canonical modern poets. The writers it explores did not just write influential verse, but also criticism. In their essays, letters, books and manifestoes, they rank as some of the most influential contributors to poetics in the twentieth-century. We will read their poetry alongside and against their discursive ideas about art, building-up a sense of their aesthetic contexts, and of their various interconnections and differences. We will also discuss their relevance in the early twenty-first century; and use their work to discuss the idea of formalist criticism, re-examining the tenets of 'New Criticism'. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Seminar | | 1-11 | 10:00 - 12:00 | | | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Monday, 10:00 - 12:00, Zone: Central. Room 1.13, 18 Buccleuch Place. |
| Additional information |
1 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s). 1 hour a week attendance at Autonomous Learning Group - times to be arranged |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students successfully completing the course will develop:
- a familiarity with both the poetic and the critical writings of a range of influential 20th century poets
- an ability to assess the relationship between the critical thinking of the writers concerned and their own poetic output
- an understanding of the aesthetic and intellectual contexts in which these writers worked, their interconnections and differences
- an awareness of the significance of these writers? work for the development of critical thinking about poetry in the twentieth and twenty first centuries
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Assessment Information
1 course essay of 2,500 words (25%)
plus 1 Examination essay of 3,000 words (75%) |
Special Arrangements
| Numbers are limited and students taking degrees not involving English or Scottish literature need the written approval of the head of English Literature. |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Alan Gillis
Tel: (0131 6)50 3050
Email: Alan.Gillis@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Anne.Mason@ed.ac.uk |
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