17316
Undergraduate Course
WiSe 15/16: PS-Surveying English Literatures II: Modernist Poetry
Kai Martin Wiegandt
Comments
In this seminar we will study poems by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, three major poets of the Modernist era. We will consider how they rework tradition, incorporate myth and popular culture, and experiment with formal innovations such as free verse, fragmentation and heterogeneous voices. We will consider the influences of primitivism and contemporary politics, the meaning of Irish culture in Yeats' poetry, and of England and the USA in Eliot's and Auden's. Our guiding question will be: What is Modernism?
Participants will have to read critical essays in addition to the assigned texts (the criticism will be made available on Blackboard). Regular attendance (no more than two missed classes), the writing of response papers and a presentation are obligatory. Credits can be acquired by submitting a paper on a specialised topic. English is spoken in class. Your language skills should be at the C1 level or higher according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Students are required to buy the following books: Auden, W. H. Selected Poems. London: Vintage, 2007. Yeats, W. B. Selected Poems. London: Penguin, 2012. Eliot, T. S. Selected Poems. London: Faber, 2009. close
Students are required to buy the following books: Auden, W. H. Selected Poems. London: Vintage, 2007. Yeats, W. B. Selected Poems. London: Penguin, 2012. Eliot, T. S. Selected Poems. London: Faber, 2009. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Fri, 2015-10-16 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2015-10-23 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2015-10-30 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2015-11-06 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2015-11-13 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2015-11-20 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2015-11-27 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2015-12-04 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2015-12-11 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2015-12-18 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2016-01-08 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2016-01-15 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2016-01-22 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2016-01-29 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2016-02-05 16:00 - 18:00
Fri, 2016-02-12 16:00 - 18:00