Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(63ΛΕ182) -  Αθανάσιος Δημάκης

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

This course provides a comprehensive mapping of Anglophone poetry from the early 20th century to the present. The last century witnessed an extraordinary flowering of poetic art in the Anglophone world. This course is designed to foster a deeper appreciation of contemporary poetry, equip students with the skills for informed literary responses, and stimulate independent thesis research. It focuses on a selection of works by celebrated 20th-century poets as well as emerging, contemporary voices from across the English-speaking world. The syllabus is arranged thematically, providing a systematic overview of 21st-century / contemporary themes and threads. Beginning with canonical poets and critiques of the poetic canon (T.S. Eliot), the course explores the ambivalences, contradictions, and tensions that surface in a diverse range of poems. This exploration spans from D.H. Lawrence's modernist primitivism to the poetics of transition, mobility, and modernity as articulated by Harriet Monroe, Ezra Pound, Edward Thomas, and Edith Wharton. It further moves from Langston Hughes's representations of racialized spaces to the robust female scholarship of the Harlem/Chicago Renaissance by Gwendolyn Brooks and Maya Angelou. The course also examines the queer lyricism of W. H. Auden, Tatiana de la tierra, and Deborah A. Miranda, the Poetry of (Pop) Culture in the 1960s as exemplified by Frank O’Hara, and Sylvia Plath's feminist poetics of trauma and abuse. Moreover, this course elucidates the multifacetedness and plurality of Anglophone poetry, engaging with the complex, often aporetic, discourses surrounding it. It also focuses on recent movements, such as the "bisexual and bicultural" Black British Performance Poetry of Patience Agbabi. The course will additionally explore an eclectic array of Anglophone voices—including Derek Walcott, Stephanos Stephanides, and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva—by concentrating on questions of inclusion and exclusion, home and rootlessness/homelessness. The poetic works of many contemporary, and at times "controversial," poets achieve progressive heights, attracting large audiences with their inclusive address and breadth of thematic concern. These poets invent new forms to articulate the complexities of our present moment and carry us into the future.

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Δευτέρα 22 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025