COLT 2821B S01 [CRN: 25440]
An investigation of the mnemonic functions of poetry from the elegy to historical witnessing in the Romantic and post-romantic period. We will study the creative and performative function of memory as well as processes of repetition, recollection, trauma and canon-formation. Theoretical and poetic texts will be studied together. Authors will include: Rousseau, Wordsworth, Hölderlin, Lamartine, Baudelaire, Dickinson, H.D., Rilke, Celan, Reznikoff; Heidegger, Freud, Arendt, Adorno, Derrida, de Man, Ronell.
- Term
- Spring 2013
- Credit Hours
- 1.0
- Maximum Enrollment
- 40
- Primary Instructor
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- Meetings
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3:00 pm - 5:20 pm Mon - from Jan 23, 2013 to May 17, 2013
- Exam Group Code
- 13 (May 11, 2013 9:00am)
