Fall 2018 - ENGL 454W D100
North American Poetry and Poetics (4)
Class Number: 4670
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 4 – Dec 3, 2018: Tue, 1:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Stephen Collis
scollis@sfu.ca
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Prerequisites:
One 300 division English course. Reserved for English honors, major, joint major and minor students.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
The intensive study of selected works of North American poets and/or poetry theorists. May be organized by author, genre, or critical approach. Students with credit for ENGL 454 may not take this course for further credit. Writing.
COURSE DETAILS:
In this course we will read North American poetry in terms of its engagement with geography and space, as well as the historical processes determining those spatialities. This will involve questions of ecology, economics, and the poem's investment in research methodologies (that is, the ways poetry engages with "research," in the field and the archive, in non-normative and innovative ways). Beginning with Charles OLson, we will also consider questions related to the long poem: what makes the long poem long, and what does this have to do with research and spatiality.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
To develop a deeper understanding of contemporary poetry and its involvement with the production of space, and to develop writing skills.
Grading
REQUIREMENTS:
Presentation and short (1000 words) accompanying essay – 30%
Review of a book of spatial poetry (1000 words)—10%
Final essay proposal, draft, and peer-review—30%
Final essay (3000 words max)—30%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Charles Olson, Selected Writings (New Directions)
ISBN: 9781910974230
Susan Howe, Debths (New Directions)
ISBN: 9780811226851
Jordan Abel, The Place of Scraps (Talonbooks)
ISBN: 9780889227880
Cecily Nicholson, From the Poplars (Talonbooks)
ISBN: 9780889228566
Layli Long Soldier, Whereas (Graywolf Press)
ISBN: 9781555977672
David Herd, Through (Carcanet)
ISBN: 9781784102562
RECOMMENDED READING:
Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems
Department Undergraduate Notes:
IMPORTANT NOTE Re 300 and 400 level courses: 75% of spaces in 300 level English courses, and 100% of spaces in 400 level English courses, are reserved for declared English Major, Minor, Extended Minor, Joint Major, and Honours students only, until open enrollment begins.
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