Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(63ΛΥ03) -  Thalia Trigoni (ttrigoni@enl.uoa.gr)

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

This course provides a foundation for the close reading of various types of poems written in the history of English literature. We will follow a chronological path from the early modern period to modernism in order to appreciate how poets, across the span of this period, adopted and developed certain poetic forms and features in order to serve their own ideological and aesthetic purposes. This requires that we primarily focus on the elements of poetry—how the parts work together. The major premise of this course is that we can only understand what a poem might “mean” through an analysis of basic diction, style, and poetic device.

Our aim will be to understand how the various techniques and genres open to poets enable them to produce works of art which speak to us and push us to think. We will explore how texts interact with the larger society and its historical changes. We will consider matters of poetic form (such as stanza structure, rhythm, and meter), diction (such as word choice, etymology, and sound), content (such as poems of love or war, the uses of allusion, and philosophic issues), and rhetoric (such as metaphor, irony, and symbolism). In this way, you will learn to pay close attention to language and be familiar with the reasons for the writer’s particular choice of language.

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Σάββατο 3 Οκτωβρίου 2020