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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Meyer
Event type:
Hauptseminar
Org-unit: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Displayed in timetable as:
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Literature:
Obligatory Literature (to be purchased by students):
English Poetry: Eine Anthologie für das Studium. Eds. Arno Löffler/Eberhard Späth. 4th augmented ed. (Tübingen/Basel: Francke 2003).
Recommended Literature:
Hollm, Jan (ed.). Literaturdidaktik und Literaturvermittlung im Englishunterricht der Sekundarstufe I (Trier: WVT, 2009)
Surkamp, Carola/Ansgar Nünning: Englische Literatur unterrichten 2: Unterrichtsmodelle und Materialien (Seelze: Klett/Kallmeyer, 2009).
Thaler, Engelbert: Teaching English Literature. Paderborn: Schöningh 2008.
Comment:
Poetry is easy. It is a genre consisting of predominantly short literary texts. Poetry is difficult. And teachers make you learn it by heart, and present in front of class.
Why is poetry so difficult, and difficult to teach? This class offers a survey of possible techniques to take away the sting in the analysis of poetry, based on material compiled in Arno Löffler/Eberhard Späth’s anthology English Poetry. Apart from communicating insight into the different forms and functions of poetry, we will particularly discuss, rehearse and compare different approaches to poetry, literary, cultural and medial (e.g., “performance,” “close reading” and “contextual reading”), and you will consider possible ways to plan and organize thematic units and individual classroom sessions.
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