The Modern Sonnet - graded paper - AAALB044B

• Title: The Modern Sonnet: písemná práce
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: both
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Hours per week, examination: 0/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. Justin Quinn, Ph.D.
• Co-requisite : AAALB044A

Course completion requirements

ASSESSMENT

• In-class participation: maximum of 3 missed online classes, active participation in the discussion.
• Reading: for each class every student is required to read all the assigned texts (poetry, criticism).
• Group work: throughout the semester the students will be required to work in small groups (of two or three, depending on the overall number of students). Each group will annotate one poem (or a critical text) for each class.
• For the credit/zápočet: final submission of an annotated poem of the student’s choice with a commentary (NB: while this is not a standard essay usually required for a credit, it should correspond to it in terms of length and effort that goes into it; the detailes guidelines for the submission will be specified in the course of the semester).
• For the graded paper/písemná práce: essay of 2500–3000 words offering a close-reading of a poem in the context of some of the topics discussed in the class; the detailed guidelines for the essay will be specified towards the end of the semester to the students interested in submitting a graded paper.

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (05.02.2022)

Literature

Material

For each class the students will be asked to read some four or five poems and one essay.  

The full detailed reading list will be available in the first class of the semester.

All the material for the class will be available on Moodle.

 

Selected Bibliography:

Bryson, Scott J. The West Side of Any Mountain. Place, Space and Ecopoetry. Iowa City: Iowa University Press, 2005.

Bryson, Scott J., ed. Ecopoetry. A Critical Introduction. Salt Lake City:  University of Utah Press, 2002..

Felstiner, John. Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

Fisher-Wirth, Ann and Laura Grey Street, eds. The Ecopoetry Anthology. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2013.

Glotfelty, Cheryll, and Harold Fromm. The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. New York: Routledge, 2012. 

Garrard, Greg, ed. Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Griffiths, Matthew, ed.  The New Poetics of Climate Change: Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.

Keller, Lynn. Recomposing Ecopoetics. North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017.

Kilcup, Karen L. Fallen Forests : Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781-1924. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013.

Ryan, John Charles. Plants in Contemporary Poetry. Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination. New York: Routlege, 2018.

Scigaj, Leonard M. Sustainable Poetry: Four American Ecopoets. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999.

Scigaj, Leonard M. “Contemporary Ecological and Environmental Poetry Différance or Référance?“ ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 3, Issue 2, Fall 1996, pp. 1–25, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/3.2.1

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (05.02.2022)

Syllabus

SYLLABUS

Week 1 (February 19}:   Introduction

Week 2 (February 26):   William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Week 3 (March 3):         Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson

Week 4 (March 12):       Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore

Week 5 (March 19):       Lorine Niedecker, Elizabeth Bishop

Week 6 (March 26):       Theodor Roethke, David Wagoner

Week 7 (April 2):            no class (Good Friday)

Week 8 (April 9):            W. S. Merwin, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry

Week 9 (April 16):          Richard Wilbur, Adrienne Rich

Week 10 (April 23):        Mary Oliver, Maxine Kumin

Week 11 (April 30):        Louise Glück, Jorie Graham

Week 12 (May 7):           Linda Hogan, Joy Harjo, Tess Taylor

Week 13 (May 14):        Closing remarks, annotated poem due

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (05.02.2022)