Postgraduate Course: Elements of Poetry Two: Forms, Formalities and Variations (Distance Learning) (ENLI11168)
Course Outline
School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 40 |
Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
Course description | The course consists of monthly, synchronous, online seminars (webinars), online workshops (writing forums) and individual consultations. Webinars will focus on theoretical and reflective exploration of key topics, in this instance with a particular emphasis on formal considerations, creative translations and the relationship between text and image. Tailored writing assignments will be set. Asynchronous, tutor- hosted writing forums will take place three times per year. Each will last for twelve days. Students will present and critique work in progress by their peers. Students will also consult five times per annum with a writing tutor and at the end of the year submit circa 15 pages of poetry for assessment. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Additional Costs | Essential Course Texts |
Course Delivery Information
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Delivery period: 2014/15 Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
Course Start Date |
15/09/2014 |
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
370 )
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Additional Notes |
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Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students who complete the course successfully will attain a broadened awareness of stylistic possibilities in poetry. By practice they will develop compositional skills in a way that complements more general English studies. |
Assessment Information
Portfolio circa. 15 pages (100%) |
Special Arrangements
None |
Additional Information
Academic description |
Not entered |
Syllabus |
1. Writing from Research: Sequences and Shaping Structures
2. Ekphrasis: Image to Text
3. Speaking in Tongues: Personae
4. Rhythm and Cadence
5. Duende: Dark Sounds, Deep Song
6. Found in Translation?
7. Harmonics and Gridlock: The Sonnet
8. Songs of Praise: The Ode, Traditional and Contemporary
9. The Natural World
10. No Such Thing as Free Verse? |
Transferable skills |
Students will gain a facility for economy of expression, awareness of the fine nuances of language, acute attention to detail and the ability to take work from an early draft to final polish, skills applicable to all written work. |
Reading list |
Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space
Broom, Sarah, Contemporary British and Irish Poetry: An Introduction
Durcan, Paul, Give Me Your Hand
Felstiner, John, Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems
Hollander, John, Rhyme¿s Reason
Langbaum, Robert, The Poetry of Experience: The Dramatic Monologue in Modern Literary Tradition
Lorca, Federico Garcia, In Search of Duende
Middleton, Christopher, Jackdaw Jiving
Muldoon, Paul, The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry
Oliver, Mary, Rules for the Dance: Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
Paz, Octavio, The Labyrinth of Solitude
Perloff, Marjorie, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
---. Wittgenstein¿s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary Rice, Adrian and Angela Reid (eds), A Conversation Piece: Poetry and Art Steiner, George, After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
Strunk, William and White, E.B., The Elements of Style
Miscellaneous Anthologies
Brown, Stacey Lynn and Oliver de la Paz, A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry
Donaghy, Michael, 101 Poems about Childhood
Kay, Jackie et al., Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets
Longley, Edna, The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
Muldoon, Paul, The Faber Book of Beasts
Oswald, Alice, The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet
Paterson, Don, 101 Sonnets
Riordan, Maurice, A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science
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Study Abroad |
Not entered |
Study Pattern |
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Keywords | EoP2 |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Miriam Gamble
Tel:
Email: mgamble@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sophie Bryan
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Sophie.Bryan@ed.ac.uk |
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