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     2017 年度   言語文化学部
  
総合文化研究入門A   
時間割コード
213302G
担当教員(ローマ字表記)
  マキン [MACKIN, Zane]
授業開講形態 授業形態 単位数 学期 曜日・時限 実務経験のある教員による授業
    2 秋学期 金5 -
授業題目(和文)   
 
Title(English)   
Introduction to Lyric Poetry: A Close Reading
 
授業の目標   
 
Goals of the course   
This course is meant to furnish students with an adequate general understanding of the development
of European lyric poetry from the Renaissance to the 20 th century. Poems will be read closely in
class to reveal meaning and technical features, giving students the critical experience and language
necessary for future explorations of Western poetry.
 
授業の概要   
 
Overview of the course   
Like an experimental aircraft testing the limits of flight, poetry tests the limits of language and what
it can do. And, as a science in linguistic extremes, the study of poetry comes with its own technical
language. What is a sonnet? A ballad? What are iambs, dactyls, pentameters, hendecasyllables,
alexandrines? How does blank verse differ from free verse? And what of rhetorical techniques, like
alliteration, enjambement, chiasmus, tmesis, allegory, ekphrasis, and anadiplosis (aka. coblas
capfinidas)? Those wishing to better understand what makes a poem soar will master this
metalanguage in class. Furthermore, we will constantly employ this language in our readings, which
will be by definition close, analytical, and deeply critical.
Classes will generally consist of a short introductory lecture followed by group analysis of selected
poems. The course will require a considerable commitment of both time and intellectual energy.
Students are expected to come to class having read the texts thoroughly, and must be prepared to
criticize and question the texts under study. In addition, each student will present once on a poet of
choice. Finally, students will perform frequent live readings in class.
There are no midterms and finals in this course. Instead, students will turn in 6 short (1-2 page)
reader response essays every two weeks. The purpose of the essays is to confirm adequate study of
the texts, and to help nurture critical thinking and writing skills in English. Topics will often be
provided by the professor.
This class also encourages students to try their hand at writing original poetry themselves. Students
are permitted to write poems formally imitative of our readings instead of the bimonthly reader
response essays. In week 14, all students are required to write an original poem, modeled after the
formal style of a poet in our readings, and in week 15, students will translate, into English, a poem
originally written in another language.
Advanced English is required for this class
 
キーワード   
 
Keywords   
 
授業の計画   
 
Plan   
SCHEDULE
(Specific readings are listed on the class website: tufslyricpoetry.wordpress.com)

1. Introduction, Ballads
2. Elizabethan Sonnets: Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare
3. The Metaphysical Poets: John Donne, George Herbert
Reader response 1
4. Robert Herrick, John Milton

5. Romantics I: William Wordsworth
Reader response 2
6. Romantics II: Blake, Coleridge, Byron
7. Romantics III: Keats
Reader response 3

8. Comic and Serious poets of the 19th Century: Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins
9. Modernists I. Yeats
Reader response 4
10. Modernists II. Ezra Pound and the Imagists
11. Modernists III. T.S. Eliot and the Relationship to Tradition
Reader response 5

12. Elizabeth Bishop
13. Review and closing notes.
Reader response 6
14. Imitative Poem Due
15. Translation Due
 
成績評価の方法・基準   
 
Grading system for assessment   
Grading
Attendance and participation 20%
Absences will be excused only if they meet the school policy for Certified Absences. Students are allowed two unexcused absences for the class. Further absences will reduce final grade by 1/3 of a grade (e.g. A- becomes a B+). Four or more unexcused absences are an automatic failure for the course.

Quizzes 15%
Quizzes will be administered as often as weekly, to ensure that students have studied the readings well. They will consist mostly of simple character and passage IDs.

Six 1-2-page reader response papers 50%
These are short essays exploring a particular theme or passage you find interesting in one of the readings. You are expected to cite specific passages in the text, and to perform reasonably close readings of that text.

Imitative Poem 10%
This will be an original composition by the student. The poem must be written after the formal style of one of the works studied in class. Thus, it will imitate the meter, rhyme schemes, lexicon and subject matter of the model poem.

Translation 5%
 
事前・事後学習【要する時間の目安】   
 
Preview/review   
 
履修上の注意   
 
Notes   
 
教科書  
 
参考書  
 
使用言語  
英語(E)
 
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