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English 166 - Spring, 2013
Love & Desire in Contemporary American Poetry
Class Information
Instructor:
Freeman, Elizabeth
CRN:
62590
Time:
MWF 10:00-10:50
Location:
1227 Haring
Description
This class will explore how American poets from World War II to the present have written about emotion, sexuality, and social form. After a crash course in poetics, we will begin by exploring some traditional forms for the love poem and how contemporary American poets have engaged with them—earnestly, ironically, experimentally, etc. In the second part of the course, we will think a bit more theoretically about desire, and the question of how desire and literary form meet one another. Does desire seek form, seek to destroy it, or something else? Can poetry “express” desire, or must it somehow “perform” desire? We will explore as many forms of love and desire as possible – gay and straight, object-oriented and otherwise. While a background in poetry is helpful, it is not required or assumed.
Grading
TBA
Texts
TBA plus a large course reader