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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

AMERICAN POETRY 2012-2013 SYLLABUS


Course Code
AKE 3004
Name of the Course
American Poetry
Instructor
Dr. Arsev A. Arslanoğlu
Office
Block:A Room: 114
Office Hours
Friday 10:00-12:00
E-mail
arsev@yahoo.com
Course Description
This course aims at introducing the students the major American poets.
Course Requirements
Students are expected to come to class having read the assigned text and participate in the discussion.
The book/books to be used
Given below.
Attendance
Minimum %70
Grading
There will be one midterm examination (50%) and a final examination (50%)

 

Week
Date
Schedule
1
04.03
08.03
Introduction to the course
Aristotle’s Poetics
2
11.03
15.03
“Poetics” The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 929-938
“Poetry” The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics,938-953
3
18.03
22.03
General Discussion on the 19th Century American Poetry: Its Characteristics, Prominent Poets of the Period, Themes
“American Poetry” The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 47-65.
4
25.03
29.03
Emily Dickinson, Selections from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
5
01.04
05.04
Selected poems from such authors as T.S.Eliot, William Carlos Williams, H.D.
6
08.04
12.04
Selected poems from such authors as T.S.Eliot, William Carlos Williams, H.D.
7
15.04
19.04
Ezra Pound, Pisan Cantos
8
22.04
26.04
Midterm Examination
9
29.04
03.05
Gertrude Stein, Stanzas in Meditation
10
06.05
10.05
Selected Poems from HD, Marianne Moore, Louis Zukovsky
11
13.05
17.05
Selected Poems from HD, Marianne Moore, Louis Zukovsky
12
20.05
24.05
Wallace Stevens, The Blue Guitar
13
27.05
31.05
Ron Silliman, The Age of Huts
14
03.06
07.06
Jackson Mac Low, Words nd Ends from Ez http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lmaclow2.htm
15
10.06
14.06
Concluding remarks

 

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