E 791A: THEORIZING THE DISCIPLINE


Schedule

 

This syllabus is subject to change. The latest version on this website is the binding syllabus.

Office: Bartlett 259
Office Hours: Wed and by appointment.
545-6598 | sharris@english.umass.edu

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W 1:00pm - 3:30pm

WEEK 3: Stylistics
17 September

 

In this class, we will be introduced to stylistic criticism.

Consider the aesthetic imperative, measures of craft, and especially the tools and techniques of criticism. What do we know? How do we know it? And how well has the poet portrayed it?

 

 

READ

1) Stylistics, Richard Bradford (Routledge, 1997), pp. 3-97. Be sure you are clear with definitions in chapter 3. You can augment this information through The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, or with Paul Fussell, Poetic Meter & Poetic Form.

BABETTE'S FEAST (1989)
Concerns in part the embodiment of the spiritual.