Postgraduate Course: Literary Studies Poetry Year Two (Online Learning) (ENLI11225)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Students will read one book of poetry (or the equivalent number of poems chosen from a larger volume) every 3 weeks, in this instance work by leading poets of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, with an emphasis on cultural, linguistic and aesthetic diversity. In student-led forums in which the course director also participates, they will discuss the material in light of their own process and the secondary material set. The emphasis of this course is on reading as a writer. Students will submit two critical responses (each 500 words maximum) at intervals throughout the year and, at the end of the year, an essay of 3000 words. For critical responses, students choose their own topic and title. Essay titles are set by the course director. |
| Course description |
Ruth Padel, The Mara Crossing,
Sharon Olds, Selected Poems,
Don Paterson, Selected Poems,
Charles Simic, The voice at 3am: Selected Late and New Poems,
Sinéad Morrissey: Through the Square Window,
Les Murray, Learning Human, Selected Poems,
Rita Dove, American Smooth,
Simon Armitage, Seeing Stars,
Lorna Goodison, Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems,
George Szirtes, Bad Machine
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential course texts |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Synthesise a range of responses to diverse literary texts
- Recognise how forms and techniques explored might be relevant and applicable to their own practice
- Identify ways in which language reinvents itself within different cultures and locations, and reshapes the corresponding literatures
- Demonstrate a solid grounding in key components of craft
- Initiate, direct and summarise discussion of literary texts
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Reading List
Allen, Donald, The New American Poetry
Bloom, Harold: The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
Bachelard, Gaston,The Poetics of Space
Boiseau, Bar-Nadar and Wallace, Writing Poetry Brinnin, Read & McKenna (eds) The Modern Poets
Brown, Clare and Paterson, Don, Don't Ask Me What I Mean; Poets in Their Own Words
Faas, Ekbert, Towards A New American Poetics: Essays and Interviews
Fenton, James, An Introduction to English Poetry
Gioia,Mason and Shoerke, eds: 20th Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry
Harmon, William (ed), Classic Writings on Poetry
Herbert, W.N. and Hollis, Mathew, Strong Words: Modern Poets on Poetry.
Lopez, Tony, Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry
Muldoon, Paul, End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures on Poetry
Padel, Ruth, 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem
Perloff, Marjorie, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by other Means in the New Century
Spender, Stephen, The Making of a Poem
Wolosky, Shira, The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students will have the ability to interrogate a wide range of literary texts; to assess and structure coherent arguments; to weigh up differing viewpoints and arrive at valid conclusions; and to navigate a wide variety of interpretations and opinions. In addition, they will be aware of how best to turn language to ends appropriate to a variety of situations, and will have learned to organise study around work or family, to manage their time in order to meet deadlines, and to work independently. |
| Keywords | LSP2 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Miriam Gamble
Tel:
Email: mgamble@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Kara McCormack
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Kara.McCormack@ed.ac.uk |
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