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May 04, 2024
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ENGL 184 PO - New PoeticsCrsNo ENGL184 PO
When Offered: Last offered spring 2014.
Instructor(s): C. Rankine
The course takes as its point of departure a threefold hypothesis: 1) there is no poetry without formal decisions; 2) for some writers, these decisions are no longer a matter of choosing between the alternatives of traditional prosody and “free verse”; and 3) such decisions concern not only composition itself, but one’s whole relationship with the world. We will investigate a variety of recent projects in poetics, so that each of us might begin to construct a working poetics. Readings will be drawn from “projective verse,” “language writing,” “ethnopoetics,” “new formalism,” poststructuralism, translation theory, hypertext, and so on, as we consider quetisons ranging from techniques of composition to the ethics and politics of writing. The course is intended for students with a real commitment to writing, an experimental spirit, an impatience with notions of writing that go no further than “self-expression,” and a desire to bride what we will assume, for the monet, and futile and perhaps foolish distinctions between the creative and the critical.
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