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Die Anmeldung findet im Rahmen des allgemeinen Verfahrens der Fachrichtung 4.3 statt. Bitte beachten Sie die Mitteilungen auf der Website der Fachrichtung und die Aushänge.
In this seminar, we will drive down the motorway of British poetry and take the most canonical exits only. We will discuss a whole cohort of acclaimed poets that made their voices heard in the half-century between the end of WWII and the turn of the millennium. In the face of great social, political and cultural change, they continuously adapted the poetic medium to meet the challenges of their times. Most prominently among them figure poets such as Thom Gunn, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Anne Stevenson, Carol Ann Duffy, Liz Lochhead and U.A. Fanthorpe. Complicating any notions of British- and Irishness, we will also consider poets from Northern Ireland (legally and politically British). Topics discussed in this seminar will include the poetic imagination, the political role and resonance of poetry, national and regional identities, nature and religion, cultural (dis)belonging and, of course, poetic key concerns such as form, voice and stylistic choices.
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The texts for this class will be announced in the first week of term. Additional readings will be made available on Moodle. |
