ENGL 25922 /43706 - Poetics of Dislocation

Institution:

University of Chicago

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This course constructs a route through placelessness as twentieth and twenty-first century poetry has attempted to map it: in the wake of a perceived homogenization and abstraction of space, the verse we study torques and tortures any stable relation that "speaking" might have to "standpoint." We give traction to abounding discussions surrounding site-specificity and the non-site, non-place, ubiquity, and virtuality within postmodern aesthetics through studies of modernist and postwar poetry of exile, migration, diaspora, and of the wayside. We study the formal and social repercussions of experiments in polylingualism, barbarism, dialect and creole, and thwarted translation, as well as generic innovations in the form of new-media, installation, and otherwise ambient poetics. Poets include T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, Paul Celan, Amelia Rosselli, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Edouard Glissant, Kamau Brathwaite, Andrea Zanzotto, John Ashbery, Jenny Holzer, C. S. Giscombe, Renee Gladman, Caroline Bergvall, Kenny Goldsmith, Tan Lin. Readings in geography and aesthetics are by David Harvey, Robert Smithson, Marc Auge, Miwon Kwon, Toni Morrison, and Timothy Mort on. J. Scappettone. Winte

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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