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Undergraduate Course: American Modernist Poetry (LLLG07054)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeSandwich AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) Credits10
Home subject areaLifelong Learning (LLC) Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionTHIS IS A FOR-CREDIT COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED.

This course is an opportunity for a more detailed study of American modernist poetry, following the major modernist poets along the trajectory of their careers, both early (1912-1925) and late (1940s to 1960s). In the first half, it introduces modernist innovations in poetry such as the visual aesthetic (imagism, objectivism), the use of collage and the mythical method, looking at them in the larger context of the poets' lives and the relationship they established with developments in the novel and the visual arts. In the second half, the course interrogates the use of these methods in the mature work of modernists, seeking to gain depth and detail and to show the extent to which poets sought either to refine and extend the strategies of their youth (like Stevens, Pound and H.D.) or develop other forms and methods (like T.S. Eliot or W.C. Williams).
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Lifelong Learning - Session 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Learn enabled:  No Quota:  0
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 13/01/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 78 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
* understand the textual strategies of modernist poets;
* assess the intellectual interactions among American modernist poets;
* form an awareness of the cultural heritage of Europe and the US in the poetry of the last century.
Assessment Information
One 2000 word essay submitted after the course finishes, worth 100% of the total course mark.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Week 1 Introduction
Week 2 The Imagist movement - London 1912
Week 3 T.S. Eliot and The Waste Land
Week 4 W.C. Williams and the Objectivist aesthetic.
Week 5 Wallace Stevens' Harmonium
Week 6 Marianne Moore. Poems.
Week 7 Ezra Pound. The Cantos.
Week 8 Late Eliot. The Four Quartets.
Week 9 Late Stevens. Auroras of Autumn.
Week 10 Modernism and feminism. H.D. Helen in Egypt.
Transferable skills Close reading and interpretation of texts.
Group discussion.
Composition of discursive essays.
Understanding of interpersonal relationships.
Reading list Essential
Eliot, T.S., 2009. Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot. London: Faber.
H.D., 1997. Selected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet Moore, Marianne. 2003. Complete Poems. London: Faber.
Pound, Ezra., 1998. The Cantos. New York: New Directions.
Stevens, W., 2006. Collected Poems. London: Faber.
Williams, W.C., 1992. Paterson. New York: New Directions.
Williams, W.C., 2000. Collected Poems I. Manchester: Carcanet.

Recommended
Davis, Alex., ed. 2007. The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry. Cambridge: CUP.
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMs Rachael King
Tel:
Email: Rachael.King@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Diane Mcmillan
Tel: (0131 6)50 6912
Email: D.McMillan@ed.ac.uk
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