| Title: | Seminar in English Lit |
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| Course Section Number: | ENG-497-01 |
| Department: | English |
| Description: | ENG 497-01: Emily Dickinson and Lyric Theory She only wore white. She loved her father's best friend. She never left her home. She baked prize-winning bread. She sent letters to a "Master." She got kicked out of school. In this seminar we'll explore these and other myths about Emily Dickinson by reading from her 1,789 poems, her letters, and the small booklets she produced-commonly called "fascicles"-from 1858-64. We'll examine her contemporaries, including Longfellow (whose novella she hid in a piano bench), Emerson (whom she met), and Whitman ("I never read his Book-but was told that he was disgraceful.") We'll explore marriage, the church, the Civil War, her family, democracy, and her dog Carlo. We'll ask why do so many 20th century male writers turn her into an object of desire? Students will spend the semester writing a final paper that will demonstrate their ability to do original research and to articulate their definition of lyric poetry. "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry," Dickinson once wrote, offering a uniquely visceral description of verse. She then added: "Is there any other way[?]" We'll find out by studying various critical lens: textual studies, formalism, reception studies, and what has come to be called the New Lyric Studies. We'll become very good at reading short, beautiful poems. Prerequisite: None Credits: 1 Instructor: Derek Mong |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 23, 2018 |
| End Date: | December 15, 2018 |
| Meeting Information: |
09/04/2018-12/13/2018 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 02:40PM - 03:55PM, Center Hall, Room 300
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| Faculty: | Mong, Derek |
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