Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(ENL551) -  Thalia Trigoni (ttrigoni@enl.uoa.gr)

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

This course will introduce students to some of the most significant poems, poets and poetic movements of the twentieth century, exploring issues of language, style and form as well as connections between poetic practice, history, society and culture. The focus will be on poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland and the Anglo-American poetry of T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden. The selection aims to develop awareness and appreciation of the particularities and diversity of twentieth-century poetry. We will follow a rough chronological order, beginning with Hardy’s poems at the dawn of the twentieth century to the Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. Twentieth-century poetry critiqued existing forms of identity, suggested new alternative forms, and provided readers with a space in which to reflect on the ways in which they might transform themselves and their surroundings. We will study the ways in which modernist poets broke Victorian fundamentals, and students will become familiar with a variety of literary modernisms since no description of modernism as a singular, determinate movement can gain universal assent.

Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας

Πέμπτη 25 Φεβρουαρίου 2021