Class Detail
LIT 120J - 01 Contemporary American Poetry
2018 Summer Quarter
Class Details
- Career
- Undergraduate
- Grading
- Student Option
- Class Number
- 71372
- Type
- Lecture
- Instruction Mode
- In Person
- Credits
- 5 units
- General Education
- TA
- Status
- Open
- Available Seats
- 17
- Enrollment Capacity
- 25
- Enrolled
- 8
- Wait List Capacity
- 0
- Wait List Total
- 0
OpenDescription
Surveys contemporary poetry with attention to race, sex, and gender; includes a variety of poetic forms. Course topic changes; see the Class Search for the current topic. Critical approach designations: Genres, Histories. Distribution requirement: Poetry.
Class Notes
Bodies are everywhere: moving, breathing, hurting, loving, desiring, living, dying. Bodies?our bodies, the bodies that surround us, the bodies that haunt us, the bodies that inspire us?are both banal and extraordinary, part of our everyday lives and part of spectacular events, instrumental and poetic. Bodies enable and limit action. Bodies carry weight. This course investigates the body as a site of political significance in contemporary poetry. We will explore the various ways contemporary poets open lines of inquiry into the political realm through animating the bodily. We will investigate how poetry can engender/reify/transgress/resist certain value systems and ideological trappings. We will consider the stakes of writing poetry in this political climate. We will read and we will write, individually and together. Join us!
Meeting Information
| Days & Times | Room | Instructor | Meeting Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| TuTh 09:00AM-12:30PM | J Baskin Engr 169 | Wagner,K.L. | 07/30/18 - 08/31/18 |