10 Poems That Will Change Your Life
A comparative study of great poetry focusing on northern, central, and eastern European traditions, regions, and diasporic communities.
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
identify and analyze key features of poems from a variety of traditions.
summarize and evaluate important developments in the transnational history of poetry and poetics, especially in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
compare and evaluate the effects, values, and "functions" of poetry in various contexts both historically and in the present.
develop and communicate original ideas in a variety of formats, including analytic and creative writing and/or translation.
effectively utilize library resources, online collections, and special collections related to the course.
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Covers different approaches to the study of great poetry in a broadly comparative context, with a particular emphasis on the traditions, regions, and diasporic communities of northern, central and eastern Europe.
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Topics
- Northern, central, and eastern European literary traditions and diasporas.
- Transnational history of poetry and poetics in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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- Analyze poetic features and evaluate historical developments in poetics.
- Produce analytic and creative writing or translation work.
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