Poetry Lab
ENGL 162
Fall 2024
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The Poetry Lab is intended for first-year students interested in literature or creative writing. Come join us for a semester of hands-on experiments with the stuff of poetry--interpreting and translating but also taking apart, writing over, scrambling, collaging. Throughout, we will ask big questions: What is poetry, anyway? How and why do we read it? We will read some of the most powerful poems in the English tradition and explore how modern poets speak back to them or make new poems from their pieces. We will engage with important scholarly debates and encounter different theoretical and methodological approaches, inviting us to approach poetry as a self-enclosed artifact, as historical evidence, as a kind of thinking, or as political action. But we will also constantly tinker with poems, imitate them, creatively play as we investigate the fundamental workings of language and meaning. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Credit/Unsatisfactory |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Less than 50% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
A wide variety of poems from across the history of English poetry, short and long, easy and hard, funny and sad, formal and experimental; also, a range of influential pieces of criticism and philosophy about poetics.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Regular exercises, both critical and creative, and several short papers investigating the inner workings and meanings of individual poems.
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
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| Instructor(s): Smith,Courtney Weiss Weiner,Stephanie Kuduk Times: .M.W... 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 40 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 0 | | |
| Seats Available: 40 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 0 | FR: 40 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 3 | 1st Ranked: 2 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
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