Sections offered FALL 2020:
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HERBERT MARKS |
M 7:00pm-8:15pm
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PV 167
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CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; meets with CMLT-C 315 and CMLT-C 515
Above class taught in a Hybrid manner which includes In Person and Online Instruction. For more information visit https://fall2020.iu.edu/learning-modes/
Is the muse of lyric androgynous, or may poetic “voice,” like speech itself, be distinguished according to gender? With this question as starting point, our course will focus on America’s two greatest poets—Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson—who in their distinctive ways (Whitman’s self-promoting, bardic, and effusive; Dickinson’s reclusive, ironical, and gnomic) epitomize and challenge our common ideas about the relation between poetry and gender. As time allows, we may also consider one or two more contemporary couples (for example, Nelly Sachs and Paul Celan; or Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell). Secondary writings on the theory of lyric. Written work: two shorter papers and a class presentation.