ENGL 44704 - Modern American Poetry

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

This course will introduce key movements in twentieth American poetry with close attention to formal and aesthetic concerns. Initially beginning with aspects of American Modernist poetry, we will chart the emergence and development of a range of differing 'American' poetries from 1945 onwards. Close reading of poems will enable us to establish how poetry investigates and engages with crucial issues such as race, gender, ethnicity and subjectivity. Attention will also be given to linguistic and textual experimentation and how poems address in different ways their readers/ audience. Although the course is not an exhaustive survey, it will allow for some considered reflection on the major aesthetic, cultural and political preoccupations of each period.

Credits:

1.50

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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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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