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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This subject is an introduction to poetry as a genre; most of our texts are originally written in English. We read poems from the Renaissance through the 17th and 18th centuries, Romanticism, and Modernism. Focus will be on analytic reading, on literary history, and on the development of the genre and its forms; in writing we attend to tech
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- literature
- literature
- poetry
- poets
- english
- renaissance
- modern
- shakespeare
- sonnets
- stanza-form
- figurative language
- metaphor
- metonymy
- meter
- accent
- duration
- apostrophe
- assonance
- enjambment
- chiasmus
- hyperbole
- litotes
- donne
- metaphysical
- milton
- pope
- wordsworth
- keats
- yeats
- eliot
- larkin
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This course focuses on works that caught the popular imagination in the past or present. It emphasizes texts that are related by genre, theme or style. The books studied in this course vary from semester to semester, and the topic for Fall 2006 is Detective Fictions.
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- literature
- detective fiction
- 19th-century
- materialist puzzles
- metaphysical meditations
- elegant whimsy
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Topic: The English sense of humor. This course examines English literature across genre and historical periods. It is designed for students who want to study English literature or writing in some depth, or to know more about English literary culture and history. Students will also learn about the relationships between literary themes, forms
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- english literature across genre and historical period
- writing
- relationships between literary themes
- forms
- and conventions
- renaissance lyrics
- enlightenment satire
- and modernist short stories
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This course considers some of the substantial early twentieth-century poetic voices in America. Authors vary, but may include Moore, Frost, Eliot, Stevens, and Pound.
We'll read the major poems by the most important poets in English in the 20th century, emphazinig especially the period between post-WWI disillusionment and early WW II intern
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In this seminar we'll read individual poems closely within a set of questions about the moral and political position of poetry -- and of intellectuals -- in different cultural contexts. Of course, part of the divergence in the social positions of poetry [and of 'the aesthetic'] depends on the dominant paradigm of the social, political and l
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- moral and political position of poetry
- divergence in the social positions of poetry
- dominant paradigm of the social
- political and literary culture
- whitman
- williams
- lowell
- plath
- bishop
- czeslaw milosz
- poet
- yeats
- nerud
- akhmatova
- szymborska
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At this distance Oscar Wilde seems not only to be on the threshold between centuries and between cultural-systems: in many ways he seems to be the threshold. His aesthetics look backwards to the aestheticism of Pater and the moral sensibility of Ruskin, and they look forward to Modernism. His antecedents are 18th century playwrights, and he
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