Literary Studies: Poetry/Criticism (8143.3)
Semester 2 / 2015

Texts

y separately published work icon Vertigo (a Cantata) Jordie Albiston , Elwood : John Leonard Press , 2007 Z1372172 2007 selected work poetry (taught in 3 units)

One Big Self

Writers Writing Dying: Poems

Refusing Heaven

I Spy Pinhole Eye

Description

Students undertake the study of twentieth and twenty-first century English language poetry, and training in contemporary critical practice with an eye to its historical antecedents. Students read a major body of recent poetry in English. As well as an appreciation of this work, they gain insight into possible critical angles to take upon it through a survey of key works of criticism, from the 18th century and into the present. Students are trained to develop and defend their own independent critical stances. They also receive an introduction to the philosophy of judgment.

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