Undergraduate Course: Understanding Poetry (LLLG07073)
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 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Lifelong Learning (LLC) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | THIS IS A FOR-CREDIT COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED.
This course is an introduction to the theory of poetry. It provides an overview of the key categories of poetry, aiming to give students a theoretical and critical toolkit necessary in the analysis of poems. The course would work by examples and seek to provide a combination of theoretical principles and close reading. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Lifelong Learning - Session 2, 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 |
12/01/2015 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
78 )
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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
By the end of this course students should be able to:
* explain the theoretical vocabulary necessary to the understanding of poetry.
* demonstrate close reading skills
* discuss the relationship between poetics and a poet's textual practice
* demonstrate an insight into personal taste and criteria of evaluating poetic texts. |
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. Poetry and Prose.
Week 2: The Main Categories of Poetry. Metre, Rhythm, Line, Rhyme. Types of Poem.
Week 3: The Language of Poetry. Metaphors and General Troping.
Week 4: The Poetic Genres. Epic/ Lyric/ Dramatic. The Epic and the Problems of Narrative Poetry.
Week 5: The Lyrical Genre and the Expression of Subjectivity.
Week 6: Poetry and Drama. Shakespeare, Browning, Eliot.
Week 7: Alternative Categorisations. Melopoeia/ Phanopoeia/ Logopoeia. On poetry meant to be sung. Poe, Hopkins. Alliteration and refrain.
Week 8: Phanopoeia and modern poetry. Imagism. Ezra Pound and H.D.
Week 9: Logopoeia -- the dance of the intellect among words. The Poetry of Reflection. Dickinson, Eliot, Ashberry.
Week 10: Conclusions. Poetry today. The revolution of modernity in poetry's status and function.
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| Transferable skills |
* Critical reading and analysis
* Participation in discussion
* Collaborative working
* Composition of discursive essays |
| Reading list |
Essential
Class handouts with texts for close reading will be made available on a week to week basis.
Reeves, James. 1965. Understanding Poetry, London: Heinemann.
Recommended
Turco, Lewis. 2000. The Book of Forms. A Handbook of Poetics, Hanover and London: University Press of New England. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Anya Clayworth
Tel:
Email: aclaywor@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Sabine Murdoch
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Sabine.Murdoch@ed.ac.uk |
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