| Course title | Anglo-American Poetry |
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| Course code | KAA/AMPO |
| Organizational form of instruction | Seminar |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | 2 |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Course availability | The course is available to visiting students |
| Lecturer(s) |
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| Course content |
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Seminar focused on British poetry: - Movement poets -Group poets -Liverpool poets -ethnic poets -feminist poetry -concrete poetry -visual poetry -Scottish, Irish and Welsh poetry -poetry of the 1990s and the turn of the century Seminar focusing on American poetry: -after 1945: tradition and innovation -academic poetry and formalism -projectivism and Black Mountain School -beat generation and San Francisco Renaissance in poetry -confessional poetry -Deep Image poetry -New York School -feminist poetry -poetry of radical protest -New Romantics -New American poetries after 1970 -Experimental and Language Poetry -New Formalism -African-American Poetry -Asian-American Poetry -Native American Poetry -Hispanic American Poetry -Poetry as Testimony, Poetry of Witness -Multimedia, Hypertext Poetry and Other New Trends
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
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| Learning outcomes |
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This literary seminar focuses on British and American poetry written after World War II. During the seminar we will look at various groups of poets, on the British and American canon and trends in British, American, and postcolonial literature from a historical perspective. There will be sound-recordings presented during the class.
Those who have attended the course will be familiar with the most important trends in British and American poetry of the 20th century. Students will have read the major primary and secondary sources. |
| Prerequisites |
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The prerequisite is the course in Introduction to Literature as taught at the Department of English and American studies. KAA/UL00
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Oral exam, Written exam, Essay, Student performance
- a knowledge of the assigned texts - analysis of the assigned texts - attendance at relevant guest lectures/workshops as specified by the instructor - knowledge of primary and secondary sources as assigned by the instructor |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2025) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2025) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2020) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2025) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |