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In richly illustrated video lectures, twelve experienced faculty members from across the United States present their analyses of groundbreaking modern American poets.
The course focuses on both major poets and influential movements, ranging from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to T.S. Eliot, H.D., Amy Lowell, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, and many others. The course alternates between a historical overview and close readings of individual poets and poems. Most courses only present one instructor's point of view. This one combines the diversity of American poetry with lectures by a slew of talented faculty members. They bring their unique perspective to the material while also presenting a unified view of more than fifty years of American poetry.
Throughout the course, vivid images of the events, people, and places mentioned in the poems are used to illustrate the lectures. The texts are highlighted through readings by both the poets and experienced faculty. On-screen text and quotation displays make it simple to follow the material. This is a course that uses the medium to bring you sights and sounds that would be difficult to include in classroom lectures.
Syllabus :
1. Orientation
- Welcome to Modern American Poetry!
2. Module 2
- Modernist Women's Poetry and the Sentimental Tradition (Part 1)
- Modernist Women's Poetry and the Sentimental Tradition (Part 2)
- Modernist Women's Poetry and the Sentimental Tradition (Part 3)
- Modernist Women's Poetry and the Sentimental Tradition (Part 4)
- Modernist Women's Poetry and the Sentimental Tradition (Part 5)
- Modernist Women's Poetry and the Sentimental Tradition (Part 6)
- Marianne Moore: Syllabics (Part 1)
- Marianne Moore: Syllabics (Part 2)
- Marianne Moore: Syllabics (Part 3)
- Marianne Moore: Syllabics (Part 4)
- Marianne Moore: Syllabics (Part 5)
- Women's Poetry, Modernism, and Classical Myth (Part 1)
- Women's Poetry, Modernism, and Classical Myth (Part 2)
- Women's Poetry, Modernism, and Classical Myth (Part 3)
- Women's Poetry, Modernism, and Classical Myth (Part 4)
- Women's Poetry, Modernism, and Classical Myth (Part 5)
- 'A Cessation of Resemblances': Stein / Picasso / Duchamp (Part 1)
- 'A Cessation of Resemblances': Stein / Picasso / Duchamp (Part 2)
- 'A Cessation of Resemblances': Stein / Picasso / Duchamp (Part 3)
3. Module 3
- Rethinking High Modernism (Part 1)
- Rethinking High Modernism (Part 2)
- Rethinking High Modernism (Part 3)
- Rethinking High Modernism (Part 4)
- Rethinking High Modernism (Part 5)
- "Tomorrow . . . who knows?": The Futures of Harlem Renaissance Poetry (Part 1)
- "Tomorrow . . . who knows?": The Futures of Harlem Renaissance Poetry (Part 2)
- "Tomorrow . . . who knows?": The Futures of Harlem Renaissance Poetry (Part 3)
- "Tomorrow . . . who knows?": The Futures of Harlem Renaissance Poetry (Part 4)
- The Political 1930s (Part 1)
- The Political 1930s (Part 2)
- The Political 1930s (Part 3)
- The Political 1930s (Part 4)
- The Political 1930s (Part 5)
- Tradition and the Folk in Sterling Brown's Poetry (Part 1)
- Tradition and the Folk in Sterling Brown's Poetry (Part 2)
4. Module 4
- Developing the Cultural Epic: From Eliot’s Cultural Elegy to Rukeyser’s Documentary Testament (Part 1)
- Developing the Cultural Epic: Eliot and Crane: Expanding the Terrain of the Modernist Epic (Part 2)
- Developing the Cultural Epic: "The Tunnel": Contesting Eliot (Part 3)
- Developing the Cultural Epic: Muriel Rukeyser's Theory of Flight (Part 4)
- Developing the Cultural Epic: Muriel Rukeyser's Documentary Testament (Part 5)
- The Image of the City in Pre-war Poetry (Part 1)
- The Image of the City in Pre-war Poetry (Part 2)
- The Image of the City in Pre-war Poetry (Part 3)
- Little Magazines (Part 1)
- Little Magazines (Part 2)
- Little Magazines (Part 3)
- Introduction
- Emily Dickinson's "We Learned the Whole of Love"
- Wallace Stevens's "Large Red Man Reading"
- Harryette Mullen's "Sleeping with the Dictionary"
