Postgraduate Course: Diversities: Voices of the New Millennium (Distance Learning) (ENLI11169)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Students will read one book of poetry per month, in this instance collections by leading poets of the late twentieth and early twentieth century with an emphasis on cultural, linguistic and aesthetic diversity. On individual blogs they will respond to each text and, in autonomous learning groups, discuss the material in the light of their own process. The emphasis on this course is reading as a writer. Students will submit three sample blogs (each circa 500 words) at intervals throughout the year and, at the end of the year, an essay of 4000 words, based on reading, personal reflection and practice. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential Course Texts |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Students will gain a facility for economy of expression, awareness of the fine nuances of language, acute attention to detail and the ability to take work from an early draft to final polish, skills applicable to all written work |
Assessment Information
| 4000 word essay (70%) and 3 x 500 word blogs (30%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Webinars:
11. Lorna Goodison: Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems,
12. Sharon Olds, Selected Poems,
13. Tony Harrison: Selected Poems
14. Charles Simic: The voice at 3am: selected late and new poems
15. Carol Ann Duffy: The World&©s Wife,
16. Les Murray: Learning Human, Selected Poems
17. Rita Dove: American Smooth
18. Sean O&©Brien: The Drowned World
19. Jo Shapcott: Of Mutability
20. Mimi Khalvati: New and Selected Poems
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| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Allen, Donald, The New American Poetry
Bloom, Harold: The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
Bachelard, Gaston,The Poetics of Space
Boiseau, Bar-Nadar and Wallace, Writing Poetry Brinnin, Read & McKenna (eds) The Modern Poets
Brown, Clare and Paterson, Don, Don&©t Ask Me What I Mean;Poets in Their Own Words
Faas, Ekbert, Towards A New American Poetics: Essays and Interviews
Fenton, James, An Introduction to English Poetry
Gioia,Mason and Shoerke, eds: 20th Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry
Harmon, William (ed), Classic Writings on Poetry
Herbert, W.N. and Hollis, Mathew, Strong Words: Modern Poets on Poetry.
Lopez, Tony, Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry
Muldoon, Paul, End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures on Poetry
Padel, Ruth, 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem
Perloff, Marjorie, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by other Means in the New Century
Spender, Stephen, The Making of a Poem
Wolosky, Shira, The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | creative writing, online learning, poetry, literary studies |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Dylis Rose
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Course secretary | Mrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
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