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(ΛΕ176) -  Αθανάσιος Δημάκης

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Poets (as presented in the syllabus)

 

Eliot, T. S.

Lawrence, D.H.

Michael, George (Georgios Panayiotou)

Monroe, Harriet

Pound, Ezra

Thomas, Edward

Hardy, Thomas

Wharton, Edith

Hughes, Langston

Brooks, Gwendolyn

Angelou, Maya

Auden, W. H.

Plath, Sylvia

O’Hara, Frank

Michael, George

Agbabi, Patience

Walcott, Derek

Okri, Ben

Anaxagorou, Anthony

Stephanides, Stephanos

Abu Toha,Mosab 

Almallah, Ahmad

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 “bisexual and bicultural” Performance Poetry of Patience Agbabi, as well as the pervasiveness of contemporary Social Media/Instagram Poetry (Atticus, Rupi Kaur). The course ends with an exploration of an eclectic array of Anglophone voices (Derek Walcott, Ben Okri, Anthony Anaxagorou, Stephanos Stephanides, Mosab Abu Toha, and Ahmad Almallah).

 

 

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