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Modernism and Confession- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Andrew Gross
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Wed 10:15 - 11:45, C 301
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das HS gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden
Modulen:
MA Literaturstudien – intermedial und interkulturell: Module 4,5,7 und 8 MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: Aufbaumodul Literary oder Cultural Studies BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A Literature oder Culture (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) Für BA-Studierende ist an diesen Kurs auch eine "Independent Study Group" angeschlossen. Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) Alte Studiengänge (Studienbeginn vor WS 07/08): Hauptstudium (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung)
- Contents
- This course will explore the "confessional" poetry of the 1950s and 1960s, tracing the preoccupation with testimonial lyricism back to Pound’s supposed confession in The Pisan Cantos. (Pound was a committed fascist during - and arguably after - the war). In addition to Pound, we will be reading Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Robert Creeley, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, and - often considered the counter-example to the confessionals - James Merrill. There is much debate over the usefulness of the term “confessional” and over the poets to whom it might be most usefully applied. Even those who accept the accuracy of the label tend to use it disparagingly, declaring the experiment at an impasse by the 1970s, and admonishing certain poets (the lists tend to vary) for their curious mixture of public revelation and private misery. One common objection to confessional poetry is that its “jargon of authenticity” finds resonance not with the general reading public but with an “in group” of readers schooled in writers’ workshops and therapy groups. We will take the academic orientation of this “seminar poetry” seriously, focusing on confessional poetry’s unique combination of personal experience and institutional vocabulary. Of particular concern will be the centrality of trauma and suffering as authorizing elements of lyrical voice. We will also explore the place of the lyric in Cold War society, formations of subjectivity in the post-industrial age, and the role (and possibility) of oppositional aesthetics in the context of consensus politics.
- Additional information
- Registration is required for this lecture.
Die Registration via: CASSY Erlangen
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2013:
- Amerikanistik, Modul C
- Department: Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)
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