20TH CENTURY AMERICAN POETRY

AMER572

Course Code: AMER572
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree Without Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

will be able to analyze individual poems in the light of modernist literary movements and postmodern literary theory,
will be able to discuss the correlation between the theory and practice of writing poetry.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

This course focuses on the development of modern and post-modern movements in American poetry by paying particular attention to the connections between the theory and practice of the poets themselves.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction to Modernist Poetry
2^nd Week	Discussion and Student Presentations on Modernist Poems
3^rd Week	Discussion and Student Presentations on Modernist Poems
4^th Week	Discussion and Student Presentations on Modernist Poems
5^th Week	Discussion and Student Presentations on Modernist Poems
6^th Week	Discussion and Student Presentations on Modernist Poems
7^th Week	Discussion and Student Presentations on Modernist Poems
8^th Week	Introduction to Postmodernist Poetry
9^th Week	Discussion and Student Presentations on Postmodernist Poems
10^th Week	Discussion and Student Presentations on Postmodernist Poems
11^th Week	Discussion and Student Presentations on Postmodernist Poems
12^th Week	Discussion and Student Presentations on Postmodernist Poems
13^th Week	Discussion and Student Presentations on Postmodernist Poems
14^th Week	Discussion and Student Presentations on Postmodernist Poems

Recommended or Required Reading

Allen, Donald, and Warren Tallman, eds. The Poetics of the New American Poetry. New York: Grove, 1973.

Altieri, Charles. Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State UP, 1995.

Hoover, Paul, ed. Postmodern American Poetry. New York: Norton, 1994.

Myers, Jack, and David Mojahn, eds. A Profile of Twentieth Century American Poetry. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.

Nemerov, Howard, ed. Poets on Poetry. New York: Basic Books, 1966.

Perkins, David. A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode. Cambridge, MA: Belknap-Harvard UP, 1976.

Shucard, Alan, Fred S. Moramarco, and William J. Sullivan. Modern American Poetry: 1865-1950. Boston: Twayne, 1989.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Presentation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Project	2	30
Attendance	1	10
Presentation of Article	2	20
Total(%)		60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		40
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	5	70
Preparation for Final exam	1	10	10
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework
Project	2	30	60
Article Presentation	2	25	50
Weekly Articles and Resource Research	14	5	70
Total Work Load			305
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.16
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

English

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2
K1	X	X
K2
K3	X	X
K4
K5	X	X
K6	X	X
K7
K8	X	X
K9
K10	X	X
K11	X	X
K12
K13