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Apr 23, 2024
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ENGL115 PO - On Form: Sonnets and EpigramsWhen Offered: Fall 2017.
Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
Credit: 1
Classical and Renaissance poetic theory distinguished between the short verse forms of sonnet and epigram by imagining how they tasted in your mouth: sonnets were a surfeit of sugar; salty epigrams made you purse your lips. This class will read a wide range of sonnets and epigrams in the English Renaissance in order to ask: what kinds of knowledge do short verse forms produce and, what is the relation of this knowledge to the social and ethical lives of readers? Reading the sonnet and epigram as dynamic expressions of desire and indignation, this class will double as a critical history of the value of “form” in post-war literary studies. Readings will range from Cleanth Brooks to Bruno Latour and include important essays by Paul de Mann, Terry Eagleton, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu as well as more recent experiments in historical formalism, strategic formalism, and new formalism. Requirements include short response papers and a final essay (8-10) pages; all of our writing will be geared towards helping us think rigorously and precisely out loud as speakers. Letter grade only. (H2, TH)
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 1; Speaking Intensive
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