Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(ΛΕ176) -  Αθανάσιος Δημάκης

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

Poets (as presented in the syllabus)

Eliot, T. S.

Lawrence, D.H.

Monroe, Hariett

Pound, Ezra

Thomas, Edward

Hardy, Thomas

Wharton, Edith

Hughes, Langston

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Angelou, Maya

Auden, W. H.

O’Hara, Frank

Plath, Sylvia

Agbabi, Patience

Kaur, Rupi

Atticus

Sin, R.H.

 

The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in the Anglophone world. This course aims to promote the enjoyment of contemporary poetry, to help students make informed literary responses to poetic texts, and to stimulate thesis research. It concentrates on a selection of work by some of the best-loved 20th-century poets, as well as emerging, contemporary poets writing in the English-speaking world today. The syllabus is arranged thematically and presents an overview of contemporary themes and threads. Starting with canonical poets and criticisms of the poetic canon (T.S. Eliot), this course reflects upon the ambivalences, contradictions, and tensions emerging from a variety of poems ranging from D.H. Lawrence’s modernist primitivism to transitions, mobilities, and the machinery of modernity (Harriet Monroe, Ezra Pound, Edward Thomas, Edith Wharton), from the racial hotels of Langston Hughes to the Harlem/Chicago Renaissance robust female scholarship (Gwendolyn Brooks, Maya Angelou), from the W.H. Auden’s notional understanding of the 1940s as the “Age of Anxiety” to Frank O’Hara’s Poetry of (Pop) Culture in the 1960s and Sylvia Plath’s Feminist poetics of torture and abuse. This course delineates the multifacetedness and plurality of Anglophone Poetry and the aporetic discourses surrounding it also focusing on recent movements such as the rebirth and queering of Medievalism in the Black British Performance Poetry (Patience Agbabi), as well as the pervasiveness of contemporary Instagram Poetry (Atticus, Rupi Kaur). These “controversial” poets defy the canon and reach large audiences with poetic works characterized by inclusivity of address and breadth of thematic concern inventing new forms to carry us into the future.

 

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