ENGL 34800 Poetics

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MAPH 34800

In this course, we will study poetry ‘in the abstract’. We will study various efforts on the part of philosophers, literary critics, and poets themselves to formulate theories of poetic discourse. We will examine a range of historical attempts to conceptualize poetry as a particular kind of language practice, from Greek and Chinese antiquity to the present.

Haun Saussy
2021-2022 Autumn
Category
18th/19th
20th/21st