ENGL 90716 - Avant-Garde American Poetries

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

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To look at American poetry as an avant-garde enterprise is to see it participating in aesthetic trends that span all of the arts. From this perspective, the most defining trend in the arts of the past hundred years has been the dissolution of fixed genres and the ascendancy of collage. Collage develops from early cubist experiments and continues in Dada and surrealist disruptions of the boundary between art and life, in mid-century assemblage and Happenings, and in late-century appropriationism and the present ubiquity of sampling. American poets have sometimes pioneered and other times responded to these methodological breakthroughs, making poetry a key participant in the avant-garde remaking of cultural life. Figures or works we will likely consider: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Langston Hughes, Charles Reznikoff, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Lorine Niedecker, Donald Allen's The New American Poetry, John Cage, Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred, Laurie Anderson, Susan Howe, Laura Mullen, and D.J. Spooky. Requirements include a class presentation and a seminar paper.

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3.00

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www.nd.edu

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(574) 631-5000

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North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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