ENGL 40413 - 20th Century British and Irish Poetry

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

This course is designed to give students a firm grasp of the major developments that occurred in poetry overseas during the last century. That grasp will depend on our linkage of rather spectacular changes in poetic form to changes in culture; students will exit the course with an understanding of how the century's unprecedented violence in warfare and grand upheavals in philosophy, science, social-psychology and political thought impacted upon the artforms of these nations. (The "United Kingdom" contains, more precisely and often uncomfortably, four entities - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - and requires study as a political "unity" with much internal turmoil.) We'll focus on writing between the great stock market crash of 1929 and the present moment, and much of our conversation will involve the differences between poetic responses to changing contexts in the experimental or small-press world of writing versus the mainstream. As we go, we'll discuss comparative issues too, like the differences between studying African American and black British poetry, as well as differences between studying women's poetry in the States and women's poetry overseas. Evaluation will be based on two papers, two presentations, and class participation. No prior experience of reading poetry is expected.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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