Module Details
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Title AMERICAN POETIC WRITING SINCE 1930
Code ENGL302
Coordinator Professor JP Redmond
English
Redmond@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2022-23 Level 6 FHEQ First Semester 30

Aims

To explore and explain the prominence of such poets as Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jorie Graham in American poetry from 1930 to the present.
To familiarise students with the work of some of their representative inheritors and followers in the "Confessional", “Beat” and “New York” schools.
To address the major concerns of the American tradition in the wake of Modernism: reactions to materialism, the role of Emersonian individualism, the use of idiomatic language, and the development of the poetic line.
To analyse parallel and later developments, including some or all of the following: relations between the literary and the oral; the growth of jazz-inflected poetry and relations between poetry and song; the feminist poetics of Adrienne Rich; and the postmodern aesthetic of John Ashbery.

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Improved reading skills applied to American poetry since 1930 and to poetry more generally.

(LO2) An enhanced understanding of poetics.

(LO3) An increased understanding of the literary, methodological, historical and cultural contexts of the poetic writing of the period.

(LO4) An ability to question the presuppositions of these contexts in a critically informed manner.

(S1) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Presentation skills - written

(S2) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Influencing skills – argumentation

(S3) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Communicating for audience

Syllabus
 

Authors covered typically include: Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Frank O'Hara, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Berryman, Adrienne Rich, Jorie Graham, Allen Ginsberg and John Ashbery.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Teaching Method 1 - Small-group session (1 x 1 hour for: 12 weeks)
Description: Face-to-face or online as appropriate.
Attendance Recorded: Yes

Teaching Method 2 - Large-group session (2 x 1 hour for 12 weeks)
Description: Face-to-face or online as appropriate.
Attendance Recorded: Yes

The majority of teaching will be delivered face to face on campus. Online delivery will be used to complement the on campus delivery and where technology affords a better learning experience.

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours           24

12

 36
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 264
TOTAL HOURS 300

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
In-person exam. Students will have 3 hours to answer two unseen exam questions. There is a re-sit opportunity.  3    40       
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Essay Plan  0    0       
There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment.  0    50       
Book-review. There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment.  0    10       

Recommended Texts
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