Module Identifier ENM4220  
Module Title POSTMODERN POETICS AND CONTEMPORARY POETRY, 1970-1990  
Academic Year 2001/2002  
Co-ordinator To Be Arranged  
Semester Available semesters 1 and 2  
Other staff Dr Peter Barry, Dr Timothy Woods  
Course delivery Seminar   2 hours per week  
Assessment Essay   1 x 5,000 word essay    

Content


This module is intended to explore the varieties of linguistic experimentation within contemporary poetics and poetry in both North America and the United Kingdom. Since the advent of the postmodern poetics of Charles Olson in the 1950s, a whole range of alternative poetic practices set in opposition to orthodox poetries has developed, embracing sound poetries, concrete poetries, 'language' poetries, ethnic poetries, feminist poetries.


1. A Poststructuralist/Postmodern Poetics?


   Essays by Eric Mottram, Charles Bernstine, Peter Middleton, Steve McCaffrey


2. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry and the New York Scene


   Paul Hoover (ed), Postmodern American Poetry (1994); The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, (eds.) Andrews and Bernstein


3. The Bay Area and Linguistic Expermentation


   Paul Hoover (ed) Postmodern American Poetry, (1994); The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, (eds.) Andrews and Bernstein


4. Radical Poetries in Britain I: A Class Apart


   Tony Harrison, V; Allen Fisher, The Place project


5. Radical Poetries in Britain II: Dissonant Voices


   Iain Sinclair (ed), Conductors of Chaos (1996)


Set Texts


The module wil work from the following core texts: Iain Sinclair (ed), "Conductors of Chaos" (1996); Paul Hoover (ed) "Postmodern American Poetry" (1994).


Owing to the difficulty in purchasing material from small presses which is now out-of-print, these texts will be supplemented by a brochure of selected extracts.