AJ16059 Post-1945 British Poetry, Culture and Society

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
Tue 14:10–15:45 G24
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( AJ09999 Qualifying Examination || AJ01002 Practical English II ) && AJ06002 Intro. to British Studies II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This year's course will look at developments in post-1945 British poetries in the context of earlier developments, focusing particularly on relations between aspects of English and American poetries.During the course students will discuss ways to relate formal aspects of verbal expression to broader areas of social and cultural concern in the poems considered and at the end of the course to produce an essay analysing aspect of the poetries discussed in comparable fashion.
Syllabus
  • Week 1: 22nd Febuary : Introductory Week 2:1st March:W.Shakespeare's sonnets (129 & 130) Week 3:8th March: W.Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey: Browning: My Last Duchess Week 4:15th March: Ezra Pound: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Week 5:22nd March: T.S.Eliot: Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock; Yeats: Easter 1916; W.H. Auden: September 1939 Week 6: 29th March: Philip Larkin: Church Going: Mr Bleaney's Room; Posterity: Homage to a Government; Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill; David Gascoyne: Orpheus in the Underworld Week 7: 5th April: NO LESSON: READING WEEK Week 8: 12th April: Ted Hughes: Hawk Roosting: Crow Poems: Ravens; Feb.17th D.H. Lawrence : Snake; Lui et Elle Week 9: 19th April: Sylvia Plath: Daddy; Tulips; Lady Lazarus - plus other British female poets (see ELF) Week 10: 26th April: Geoffrey Hill: Ovid in the Third Reich; September Song: Songbook of Sebastian Arruruz: Mercian Hymns: Week 11: 3rd May:Basil Bunting: Briggflatts;What The Chairman Told Tom: David Jones: In Parenthesis Week 12:10th May:Tony Harrison: Them & uz; A Good Read; National Trust: 'v'; Peter Reading: Parallel texts: febuary 15th Week 13:17th May J.H. Prynne: Royal Fern; L'extase de M.Poher
Literature
  • Reading, Peter Essential Reading (1986) London Secker & Warburg
  • Eliot, T.S. Collected Poems (1974) London Faber & Faber
  • Auden, W.H. Selected Poems (1979) London Faber & Faber
  • Thomas, R.S. Collected Poems 1945 - 1990 (2000) London Phoenix
  • MACDIARMID, Hugh. Selected poems. Edited by Michael Grieve - Alan Riach. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1994, xxxiii, 32. ISBN 0-14-018754-5. info
  • BUNTING, Basil. The complete poems. Edited by Richard Caddel. Oxford University Press pbk. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, xii, 226. ISBN 0192822829. info
  • HEANEY, Seamus. New selected poems, 1966-1987. London: Faber and Faber, 1990, x, 245. ISBN 0571143725. info
  • LARKIN, Philip. Collected poems. Edited by Anthony Thwaite. London: Marvell Press, 1988, xxvii, 330. ISBN 0571151965. info
  • HILL, Geoffrey and David A. HILL. Collected poems. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985, 207 s. ISBN 0-14-008383-9. info
  • HARRISON, Tony. Selected poems [Harrison, 1984]. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, 203 s. ISBN 0-14-007158-X. info
  • HUGHES, Ted. Selected poems : 1957-1981. London: Faber and Faber, 1982, 238 s. ISBN 0571119166. info
Teaching methods
The course will be taught by a combination of close reading and small and full group discussion.By the end of the course students will have written an essay indicating their ability to analyse elements of the poetry discussed on the course in their cultural context.
Assessment methods
Assessment will be by essay (5-8 pages; to be submitted by the exam date) (50%), a response paper( 500-800 words; to be submitted by the end of the TEACHING semester (20%) and class participation and attendance (30%). Students taking the course need only fulfil one of the written requirements.Teaching will take the form close reading, reading aloud and related discussion.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=411
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Spring 2015, Autumn 2016.
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