Literature 3080 - Other Traditions:"Avant-Garde"Poetry and Poetics from the Romantic to the Postmodern Era

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Bard College

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According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Romantic poetry "emphasizes the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the spontaneous, and the transcendental." Or does it? Since John Ashbery's study Other Traditions, scholars have come to recognize that Romantic poetry is not only about whatWordsworth called "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling."During the Romantic era, noncanonical authors such as Thomas Beddoes, John Clare, Mary Robinson, and many others were writing poetry that challenged normative assumptions about what a poem should be, topically, formally, and expressively. This course examines the "other tradition" of Romantic poetry in the context of current "experimental" poetry and poetics,including Charles Bernstein's A Poetics, Lyn Hejinian's Happily, Barrett Watten' s 1-10 , andJack Spicer's Vancouver lectures.

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4.00

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www.bard.edu

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(845) 758-6822

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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