Module Information
Module Identifier
ENM4220
Module Title
POSTMODERN POETICS AND CONTEMPORARY POETRY, 1970-1990
Academic Year
2009/2010
Co-ordinator
Semester
Semester 1
Other Staff
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | Seminar. 2 hours per week |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 1 x 5,000 word essay Essay: | |
| Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. Where this involves re-submission of work, a new topic must be selected. |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the module, students should be able to:
1. demonstrate an understanding of a range of postmodern poetic practices;
2. explain some of the relationships and connections between them;
3. explain some of the key distinctions between British and American versions of postmodern poetic practice.
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.
_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.
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7