AJ25039 Green American Poetry

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Randall Roorda (lecturer), Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Prajznerová, M.A., Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
Tue 16:40–18:15 G22
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 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/10
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Green American Poetry This course in American poetry will sample 20th century poets to whom readers have turned for expression of connection to the natural world, consolation for loss, and appreciation of ecological complexities, including complexities of perception, feeling, and mind. The poets: Robert Frost, Robinson Jeffers, Theodore Roethke, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Margaret Atwood, A. R. Ammons, Mary Oliver. We’ll read and respond in a spirit of appreciation, participation and discernment, not dissection, our purpose to plumb ways that literature (as the critic Kenneth Burke says) might constitute “equipment for living,” at a time when longstanding ways of living and forms of life are imperiled. For course participants, the major responsibility will be the work of response, in a reading notebook and a pair of short essays. My role as teacher will be to provide knowledge of cultural contexts and intricacies of language sufficient to enable participants to enact their understanding, to take poems personally. Mary Oliver asks: Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? We’ll keep this question, in its many senses, before us.
Language of instruction
English
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