Module Identifier | ENM4220 | ||
Module Title | POSTMODERN POETICS AND CONTEMPORARY POETRY, 1970-1990 | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Peter T Barry | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Other staff | Dr Peter T Barry, Dr Timothy S Woods | ||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | Seminar. 2 hours per week | |
Assessment | Semester Assessment | Essay: 1 x 5,000 word essay |
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.