AJ25004 Twentieth Century American Poetry

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2000
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Marian Siedloczek, M.A. (lecturer), PhDr. Thomas Donaldson Sparling, B.A. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Mgr. Jiří Rambousek, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • This course will discuss the developments of twentieth-century American poetry with an emphasis on the modernist era. The modernist period sees significant innovations in poetry which attempt attempt to express the new, post-war sensibility; as Virginia Woolf said, something changed about 1910, and American poetry registered that change, too. What is more than that, American poetry becomes increasingly influential outside the United States. To understand that influence, we will study selected poems by such poets as Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and H. D. and examine how these poets, each in their own way, used poetry to reflect the modern period. Above all we will study their attempts to give American poetry a new shape. With the aesthetic ideas of Pound, Eliot and Williams in mide, we will then proceed to study Beat poetry and its impact on the lossening of the American poetic idiom. Special attention will also be given to women's poetry represented by such poets as Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich and Louise Glück.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Seminar; Assessment: class participation and essay
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: every week.
Credit evaluation note: 2 původní kredity.
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