ENG 227 - AMERICAN POETRY LONG 1960s

Institution:

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Subject:

English

Description:

This course is devoted to analysis of poetry and poetics written by American authors during the period currently referred to as the long nineteen-sixties, encompassing the late-nineteen-fifties' intensification of the Cold War through the mid-nineteen-seventies, when the Vietnam War and the Watergate hearings drew to a close. Students will read closely a wide variety of poetical forms, both free verse and conventional, produced by authors associated with numerous schools and movements, including (though not limited to) the Beats, the confessional poets, the New York School, the language poets, and the Black Arts Movement. Students will examine significant poetics theory produced during the period, and will discuss those theories alongside of popular cultural appropriations of poetical form. Students will read canonical and non-canonical texts, and will think through the texts' social, political, and aesthetic contexts, situating the works within two turbulent decades of American culture.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.kutztown.edu/

Phone Number:

(610) 683-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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