| Lerninhalte |
Why poetry in the 21st century? Poetry asks for close reading, close reading requires time and patience, the willingness to question the obvious and to endure paradox, ambiguity and double meanings of all kinds. Nevertheless, and for all these reasons, poetry remains the genre best suited to teach us how language works, how meaning emerges from a text and what literature can do. Being forced to sit at home in a locked down environment, the art of reading poetry can be considered a political, anti-ideological activity as it serves to question a world usually governed by the ideology of speed, progress and immediate utility. In the course, we will discuss approaches, concepts and theories in relation with many literary examples taken from all periods of literary history, early modern to post-modern. |
