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L14 E Lit 520Seminar: British Romantic Poetry: A Workshop on Key Texts, Contexts, and Topics3.0 Units
Description:This seminar is designed both for the prospective scholar of Romanticism (the student who will make it central to intensive study in the major fields of 18th or 19th century literature) and for the reluctant or even resistant reader of Romantic poetry. Reading the major texts of the field, primary and secondary, we will investigate a term that has always vexed even its enthusiasts-"Romanticism"- as it is defined, with particular focus on the so-called "Big Six" poets, in the second decade of the 21st century Indeed, this workshop will enable graduate students in other fields (whether their principle genre is poetry or fiction) to situate "Romanticism" within today's curriculum, which means within other fields dominated by those "isms" (modernism and post-modernism, strucuturalism and post-structuralism) provoked by a sometimes (for the Romanticist) maddening certainty as to what "Romanticism" means, or meant, or indeed could mean. Students of early modernism are most welcome, as we consider the burden of the past inherited by the sometimes begrudging heirs of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. You need not have encountered in previous graduate or undergraduate courses the major Romantic poets-William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Keats-in order to benefit from a workshop that will provide intensive instruction in the art and scholarship of reading the Romantic lyric, the Romantic narrative poem, and the hybrid forms of Blake's composite art or Byron's rollicking Don Juan as these forms emerged in Britain between 1770 and 1830. We will read together the definitive scholarship of the past century during the crescendo of the Romantic lyric poem as the definitive example of British literary achievement against which other periods and forms were measured, from Irving Babbitt's vitriolic attack to the field's anxious self-questioning, provoked by deconstruction, New Historicism, and cultural studies. Situatin
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L16 567  U98 5205Frequency:None / History
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