LITR19049  Romantic & Contemporary Poetry

This course examines a selection of Romantic and contemporary poetry from the view that poetry is a discursive rather than simply an aesthetic practice. Poetry will also be situated in the Modernist/Post-Modernist debate and in the poststructuralist problematisations of orthodox humanist notions such as the transparency of language, the fixity of meaning, the unity of the self, and poetry's alleged non-ideological access to universal truth.