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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Fall 2021 |
Registration ID | ENGLH389A001 |
Course Title | Interpreting Lyric Poetry: Love, Loss, Transcendence |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | English |
Instructor | Benston,Kim |
Times and Days | TTh 01:00pm-02:30pm
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Room Location | LUT230 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2173 An examination of theoretical issues and presentational strategies in verse structures from Ovid to Bishop. Through close readings of strategically grouped texts, we explore the interplay of convention and innovation, attending to themes of desire, loss, and transcendence, and to recurrent lyric figures (e.g., in Narcissus, Orphic, and Ulysses poems; in the dramatic monologue; in the sonnet and elegy; in the sublime; in vernacular traditions and their literary revisions). Issues for study include: allusion and intertextuality; convention and cliché; invention and revision; origination and self-presentation. Practical criticism will lead to theoretical analyses of interpretive modes and the interpreter’s stance.; Crosslisted: English, Comparative Literature; Prerequisite(s): Two 200-level English courses or instructor consent; Enrollment Limit: 12; Lottery Preference(s): English and Comparative Literature majors; then Spanish, French, German, Religion, and/or Philosophy majors Humanities (; Hav: HU) |
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