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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Spring 2023 |
| Registration ID | CSTSB219001 |
| Course Title | Poetic Desires, Queer Longings |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Classical Languages |
| Instructor | Lam,Erin |
| Times and Days | MW 02:40pm-04:00pm
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| Room Location | TAYG |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2768 This course places poetry that considers love and desire from Greco-Roman antiquity in conversation with modern poetry and critical theory (queer, feminist, and literary). How are the roles of lover and beloved constructed through gender? How does queer desire and sexuality manifest in different cultural contexts? How have poets sought to express desire through language, and in what ways does language fail to capture that desire? Students in this course will face the difficulties of articulating desire head-on through both traditional literary analysis papers and a creative writing project. Texts will include love poetry by Sappho and Ovid, Trista Mateer’s Aphrodite Made Me Do It, Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet, and Audre Lorde’s “The Uses of the Erotic.” Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); |
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