At the end of this course, the students; 1) acquire full theoretical and critical knowledge on modern American poetry and pre-1970s poetical movements. 2) critically analyze and discuss the development of American poetry from the early twentieth century to the 1960s. 3) ecome fully familiar with the social, cultural, political, intellectual, historical, and literary context of modern American poetry. 4) re able to conduct further academic research on modern American poetry from multiple perspectives as well as on individual poets themselves.
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITION
This course aims to teach students modern American poetry produced between the early twentieth century and the 1960s with an emphasis on its formal and aesthetic concerns. By focusing on particular poetic movements such as Modernist Poetry,Confessional Poetry,Beat Generation,New York School, and Language Poets, as well as on critical and theoretical works on modern American poetry, this course enables students to approach the linguistic and textual experimentation observed in modern American poetry critically. It also traces crucial issues such as gender, race, ethnicity and identity represented in major poetical works.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
General Introduction: Social and cultural transformation in America from the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century; social realism, modernism, and search for individual voices in poetry.
2nd Week
Transition from social realism to early modernism: Edgar Lee Masters and Edwin Arlington Robinson;
3rd Week
Robert Frost's poetry: Tradition and modernism
4th Week
Imagism and modernist poetry: Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg; Wallace Stevens; William Carlos Williams; Ezra Pound; H.D. (Hilda Doolittle); Marianne Moore ; E.E. Cummings;
5th Week
(Continued)
6th Week
Mid-Term Examination I.
7th Week
Modernist poetry (Continued);
8th Week
Robert Penn Warren; Theodore Roethke; Charles Olson; Robert Creeley;
9th Week
The Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes; Countee Cullen;
10th Week
The Beat Generation: Allen Ginsberg; Gary Snyder;
11th Week
The New York School: John Ashbery; Frank O?Hara;
12th Week
Mid-Term Examination II.
13th Week
Confessional Poetry: John Berryman; Sylvia Plath; Anne Sexton;
14th Week
The Language Poets: Bruce Andrews; Charles Bernstein; Bob Perelman.
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Nina Baym et al. 8th edn. New York: Norton, 2012.Vols.D and E.
Shucard, Alan, Modern American Poetry, 1865-1950. Boston: Twayne, 1989.
DiYanni, Robert. Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions. New York: Random House, 1987.
Nelson, Cary. Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory 1910-1945. Wisconsin: U of Wisconsin P, 1989.
Staufer, Donald Barlow. A Short History of American Poetry. New York: Dutton, 1974.
Myers, Jack, and David Wojan, eds. A Profile of Twentieth-Century Americasn Poetry. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.
Rotella, Guy. Reading and Writing Nature: The Poetry of Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1991.
Bawer, Bruce. The Middle Generation: The Lives and Poetry of Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1986.
Ingersoll, Earl G. The Post-Confessionals: Conversations with American Poets of the Eighties. London: Associated UPs, 1989.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers,Other
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
Quantity
Percentage(%)
Mid-term
2
40
Quiz
2
10
Attendance
1
10
Total(%)
50
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)
50
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)
50
Total(%)
100
ECTS WORKLOAD
Activities
Number
Hours
Workload
Midterm exam
2
2
4
Preparation for Quiz
2
2
4
Individual or group work
14
6
84
Preparation for Final exam
1
10
10
Course hours
14
3
42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
1
6
6
Homework
Quiz
2
1
2
Total Workload
152
Total Workload / 30
5,06
ECTS Credits of the Course
5
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)
No
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES (KLO) / MATRIX OF LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO)
