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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
What does it mean to be beautiful in poetry and art? How is beauty defined from Plato to the blog? What is aesthetics in relation to beautiful practice? A workshop in the reading of lyric poetry and visual art from cave painting to modernism. The three written exercises on text, image, and aesthetics, with creative practice in translation. No final examination. Texts include Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, Catullus, Horace, Petrarch, Goethe, Kant, Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Rilke, Benjamin, Stevens, Derrida, and Danto. LILE
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A close reading of three books of poems in their entirety: Montale's La Bufera e altro, Celan's Die Niemandsrose, and Hill's Canaan. These books are in their different ways concerned with the historical meaning and possible survival of Europe after the Second World War, as well as with the betrayals and self-betrayals of the period; we will read them in that light.
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1.00 Credits
Concentrated readings of Hölderlin, Shelley, Baudelaire, and Yeats in conjunction with theoretical texts by Heidegger, Derrida, De Man, and Benjamin. Texts include poetry, essays, novels, and dramas of the poets in a critical and philosophical context. Focuses on the relationship between figurative and expository language, the limits of commentary, and the concept of criticism as repetition and translation. French or German required. Frequent writing and oral presentations.
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We will read a number of famous short poems in Greek and Latin in conjunction with the major English writers who later translated, imitated, and reworked them. The class will be arranged by genre, and we will focus on the georgic, epistle, idyll, and epigram, in both ancient and modern guises. We will read Horace, Theocritus, Virgil, Dryden, Pope, Tennyson, and others.
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1.00 Credits
Readings of lyric poetry in the European Romantic tradition. Focus on problems of lyric subjectivity and representation, and the rhetoric of "voice." Emphasis on formal features of poetry. The course will be based on close reading and frequent writing assignments. Readings from Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Goethe, Novalis, Hugo, Nerval, Lamartine, Baudelaire and others. Knowledge of French or German required, or by permission.
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1.00 Credits
Readings in French, German, British and American poetry of the nineteenth century. Texts selected from: Hölderlin, Mörike, Heine, Hugo, Nerval, Baudelaire, Keats, Hardy, Dickinson, Poe and others. Focus on close reading, and rhetorical and formal elements of poetry. Frequent writing assignments.
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1.00 Credits
Selected readings from among Rousseau, Blake, Hölderlin, Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Nietzsche, Freud, Yeats, Char.
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0.00 Credits
Interested students must register for GRMN 1440C S01.
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Interested students must register for LITR 1230K S01 (CRN 15719).
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1.00 Credits
A historical study of various forms of waka (Japanese poetry) from the 8th century anthology the Man'yoshu to the advent of modern verse in the latter part of the 19th century. We will examine the significance and functions of poetry historically as well as the relationship of poetry to religion and society, the political implications of waka, and the dominant aesthetic governing poetic conventions in different periods.
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