MODERNIST AMERICAN POETRY: MAKING IT "NEW"
| Title | ΜΟΝΤΕΡΝΙΣΜΟΣ: ΦΤΙΑΧΝΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΗ "ΝΕΑ" ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΗ ΠΟΙΗΣΗ / MODERNIST AMERICAN POETRY: MAKING IT "NEW" |
| Code | Λογ7-367 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | English Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600020323 |
Programme of Study: 2024-2025
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses | Winter/Spring | - | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2023 – 2024 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Class ID | 600243362
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Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600243362
- At the Website of the School: https://www.enl.auth.gr/course_en.asp?Id=472
- eLearning (Moodle): https://elearning.auth.gr/course/view.php?id=4638
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Learning Outcomes
•Familiarize themselves with the close reading and analysis of various poetic styles as these are formulated by various practicing poets coming from various social, racial and cultural groups (i.e. African Americans, female immigrants, Native Americans) •Examine the development of poetic writing in conjunction with various social/political/artistic/racial/gender developments and events •Familiarize themselves with the reading and interpreting of essays that the poets themselves have written.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Work autonomously
- Work in an international context
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course examines the formation and development of American Modernist poetry as well as the various trends (Imagism, African American Renaissance, regionalism, gender) that appeared during the period of 1914-1945 with emphasis placed on race and gender as well as on expatriate American poets: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Hilda Dolittle (H.D.), Mina Loy, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay,Angelina Grimké, Αnne Spencer, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alexander Posey etc.
Keywords
American modernism, imagism, African American Renaissance, race, gender, Native Americans, expatriate poets in Europe
Educational Material Types
- Multimedia
- Book
- Journal articles and chapters from edited volumes
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
- Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
-Online material made available via the American Studies Resource Portal (www.asrp.gr)as well as documentaries via youtube and websites of major libraries (British Library).
-As regards communication with the students, this is always carried out via email or via posting various announcements on the School website or via the elearning platform.
-The elearning platform is used for the uploading of all course material as well as for the submission of the student essays.
- The course was examined for the fist time online in September 2020 via the elearning platform (method used: Quiz with open-ended questions).
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 117 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Reading Assigment | 10 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Project | 10 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Written assigments | 10 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Exams | 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Total | 150 |
Student Assessment
Description
a.Final written examination (Compulsory) OR
b.Final written examination & In-class presentations (theme oriented) followed by a written report. Score: 10% (presentation) and 10 % (report). OR
c.Essays (without taking the end of semester exam: three close textual and critical analyses οf poetic texts and theoretical essays of 2,500 words each; Score: 30% first essay and 35% for each one of the next two essays).
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Summative)
- Written Assignment (Formative)
- Report (Formative)
- Τheme-oriented presentations on the basis of the material examined in the course (Formative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Benvenuto, Richard. Amy Lowell (1985).
Christodoulides, Nephie, and Polina MacKay. The Cambridge Companion to H.D. (2012).
Cook, Jon. Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000 (2004).
Dickie, Margaret. On the Modernist Long Poem (1986).
Eliot, T. S., The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1974).
Faggaen, Robert, The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost (2001).
Gray, James, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1967).
Harrison, Elizabeth Jane, and Shirley Peterson. Unmanning Modernism: Gendered Re-readings (1997).
Huhes, Glenn. Imagism & the Imagists: A Study in Modern Poetry (1972).
Hutchinson, George. The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance (2007).
Kalaidjian, Walter B. The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism (2005).
Loy, Mina. The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy (1997).
Pizer, Donald. American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Movement (1997).
Rotella, Guy L. Critical Essays on E.E.Cummings (1984).
Ruddick, Lisa Cole, Reading Gertrude Stein: Body, Text, Gnosis (1990).
Serio, John N. The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens (2007).
Stein Gertrude, Gertrude Stein’s America (1965).
Tomlinson, Charles, Marianne Moore: A Collection of Essays (1970).
Wagner-Martin, Linda, The Poems of William Carlos Williams (1964).
Last Update
15-11-2021
