Poetry and Democracy
ENGL 110
Spring 2014
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01
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Politics and poetry both activate a broad range of issues related to voice and representation. In this course we will study 19th- and 20th-century American poetry, focusing on poems that explicitly or implicitly engage with American ideological concerns. In conjunction with our textual analysis, we will consider specifically the representation of individual and group identity, the relation between poetic form and political change, and the special demands on art in times of war. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYS |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Readings may include work by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, W. C. Williams, Lorine Niedecker, Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, Robert Hayden, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Amiri Baraka, Adrienne Rich, Lorenzo Thomas, Anne Waldman, Nathaniel Mackey, John Yau, Myung Mi Kim, and others.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly responses, three essays, one in-class presentation. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
THIS SECTION IS A FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (FYS) CLASS. |
| Instructor(s): Willis,Elizabeth Gorin,David William Times: .M.W... 02:40PM-04:00PM; Location: ZLKA202; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: 19 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 6 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 5 |
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