Undergraduate Course: European Modernist Poetry II: 1930-1945 (LLLG07051)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | THIS IS A FOR-CREDIT COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED.
This course is a survey of late modernist poetry in Europe, following the most important poets up to and immediately following WWII. The thirties and forties in Europe were a dramatic time for writers - caught in the conflicts between fascism and communism erupting in almost all countries of the continent, their work ceased to be personal but became symbolic of national culture. Issues like exile, deportation and executions became painfully immediate to poets who had to defend not only their work, but their very integrity as human beings. |
| Course description |
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: T.S. Eliot in the thirties: Ash Wednesday
Week 3: W. H. Auden - poems of the early years
Week 4: Surrealism and beyond: Pierre Reverdy and Paul Eluard
Week 5: Stalin and the writers: Anna Akhmatova
Week 6: Spanish modernism: Federico Garcia Lorca
Week 7: Eugenio Montale in Fascist Italy: Le occasioni
Week 8: Giorgios Seferis and the Hellenic world: Mythistorema
Week 9: The tragedy of the war. Paul Celan: Death Fugue
Week 10: New Romanticism: Dylan Thomas.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
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 modernist poets of various countries;
* form an awareness of the cultural heritage of Europe in the poetry of the last century.
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Reading List
Essential
Akhmatova, Anna 1997. The Complete Poems. Edinburgh: Canongate. Auden, W. H., 2010. Selected Poems. London: Faber.
Caws, Mary Ann ed., 2004. The Yale Anthology of 20th Century French Poetry. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Celan, Paul 1996. Selected Poems. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Eliot, T.S., 2009. Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot. London: Faber.
Lorca, F.G., 2009. Selected Poems. Oxford: OUP Montale, E., 2012. Collected Poems 1920-1954. New York: FSG.
Seferis, G., 1995. Complete Poems. London: Anvil.
Thomas, Dylan 2000. Collected Poems. London: Phoenix.
Recommended
Lewis, P., ed. 2011. The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism. Cambridge: CUP. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
* Close reading and interpretation of texts.
* Group discussion.
* Composition of discursive essays.
* Understanding of interpersonal relationships. |
| 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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