Module Details
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Title AMERICAN POETIC WRITING SINCE 1930
Code ENGL302
Coordinator Prof JP Redmond
English
Redmond@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2018-19 Level 6 FHEQ First Semester 30

Aims

  1. To explore and explain the prominence of such poets as Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg in twentieth-century American poetry

  2. To familiarise you with the work of some of their representative inheritors and followers in the "Confessional", “Beat” and “New York” schools

  3. To address the major concerns of the American tradition in the wake of Modernism: reactions to materialism, the role of Emersonian individualism, the use of idiomatic language, and the development of the poetic line

  4. To analyse parallel and later developments, including some or all of the following: relations between the literary and the oral; the growth of jazz-inflected poetry and rel ations between poetry and song; the feminist poetics of Adrienne Rich; and the postmodern aesthetic of John Ashbery


Learning Outcomes

Improved reading skills applied to American poetry since 1930 - and to poetry more generally

An enhanced understanding of poetics

An increased understanding of the literary, methodological, historical and cultural contexts of the poetic writing of the period

An ability to question the presuppositions of these contexts in a critically informed manner.

Syllabus
1  Authors covered typically include:

Wallace Stevens

Elizabeth Bishop

Robert Lowell

Frank O''Hara

John Berryman

Adrienne Rich

Theodore Roethke

Jorie Graham

Allen Ginsberg

John Ashbery

Adrienne Rich


Teaching and Learning Strategies

Lecture -

The lectures occur once a week

Tutorial -

The weekly tutorials are 90 minutes long

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 12

   18

       30
Timetable (if known) The lectures occur once a week
  		  The weekly tutorials are 90 minutes long
  		       
Private Study 270
TOTAL HOURS 300

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Coursework  4000 words  Semester 1  50  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Assessment 1 
Coursework  4000 words  Semester 1  50  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Assessment 2 Notes (applying to all assessments) 4000-word essay 4000 word essay  

Recommended Texts
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