Learning Outcomes:
The module will enable students to analyse the relationship between cultural theory and critical practice. Students will be to introduced tpo key contemporary theorisatons of lyric practice in post war American poetry. The course will enable students to make links between critical thought and cross genre writing. Transferrable skills: Students will be introduced to key critical terms to describe ideas of document and memoir in the processes of contemporary American lyric practice. They will be encouraged to use these analytic tools to judge and evaluate the impact of data capture and web practices on the writing and reception of contemporary American poetry and Poetics.
Indicative Module Content:
Defining ideas of document in poetry
Introducing lyric poetry theory
Relationship between innovative forms and exploration of self
How theory interests with close reading of poetry
Representing subjective states in 21st Century practice
Introducing key manifestos from 20th and 21st Century American Poetics