Special Topics: Poets in Translation
ENGL 372
Fall 2024
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01
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In this craft seminar, students will read texts on the challenges of translation, then dive into the close readings of poems in various translations. What inclinations might we observe of poets of different regions and times, which break the customary "rules" of the American workshop poem? What new possibilities might we glimpse--and "translate" into our own work? In turn, we will read contemporary poets who exercise their own form of translation out of the English language elsewhere. Students will be invited to translate poems into English, as well as experiment with the techniques they have observed in poems in translation. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
: Basho, THE NARROW ROAD TO THE INTERIOR; Rainer Maria Rilke, THE SELECTED POETRY OF RAINER MARIA RILKE; Wislawa Szymborska, VIEW WITH A GRAIN OF SAND; Jos Charles, FEELD; Eliot Weinberger & Octavio Paz, NINETEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT WANG WEI.
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Examinations and Assignments:
TBA |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course contributes to the fulfillment of the following ENGL major requirements:
CW path, CW requirement, CW 300-level course, CW elective. |
| Instructor(s): Lin,Esther Times: ..T.... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: FISK121; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 4 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 2 | FR: 0 |
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