Course details
Name: ENGL - 294
Title: WOMEN POETS
Section: 01
Semester: Spring - 2020
Credits: 3
Description:
The women poets we'll read in this course are eccentric, eloquent, defiant, anti-romantic, and utterly fresh: they are smart-alecs and write with pizzazz and panache. They revise male poems and male tropes and images; they focus on women's interior lives and on their exterior conflicts with social conventions. Their speakers write with consciousness of a female-gendered identity even when the issue of gender isn't mentioned. Two of the poets we'll study, one Irish and one American, will visit our class, give poetry readings during class time, and answer your questions about their writing. We'll also read poems by Stevie (aka Florence Margaret) Smith, Dorothy Parker, and others. The course is rigorous and exciting, and I look forward to conversations with you about all the poems. Students must be prepared to attend every class and to participate in discussion. No electronic devices are allowed in this class. This course satisfies the World Cultures university requirement.
Last updated on 2019-10-27 By
McDiarmid Lucy (mcdiarmidl)
Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 1:00 pm To 2:15 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Any Literature (1e)
- Genre Study (Poetry)
- Women and Gender Studies (3c)
- World Cultures (TE 7a)
Teaching Faculty: McDiarmid Lucy (mcdiarmidl)
Is course canceled: No