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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Poetry and Passion

  • Unit Code

    ENG3050

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

Description

This unit explores poetry as inspired both by a passion for language and a strong desire to make that language new. Thus, students investigate how poets have understood human consciousness and emotion through experiments in poetic language. The unit also examines how a literary form, such as poetry, participates in political and cultural change.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG2255, ENG3355

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse how poetic texts demonstrate innovations associated with relevant art movements of their times.
  2. Analyse the relation of poetic form to meaning in single texts.
  3. Analyse the ways in which poetry responds to and instigates change in its political and cultural contexts.
  4. Apply appropriate theories about poetics to the analysis of poetry.
  5. Compare and contrast with precision a range of poetic texts.

Unit Content

  1. Relevant theoretical and analytical models.
  2. Selected poetry from a range of periods and themes.
  3. Texts that provide a political and cultural understandings of selected poetry.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, workshops and web-based support.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayResearch essay40%
ExaminationExamination40%
AssignmentCreative Assessment20%

Text References

  • Strand, M. (Ed.) (2001). The making of a poem: A Norton anthology of poetic forms. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Stewart, S. (2002). Poetry and the fate of the senses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Perloff, M. (2000). The poetics of indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (Avant-Garde and Modernism studies). Chicago: Northwestern University Press.
  • Padgett, R. (2007). The teachers and writers handbook of poetic forms. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative.
  • Melaney, D. (2001). After ontology: Literary theory and modernist poetics. Albany: State University of New York Press.
  • Galvin, M. (1999). Queer poetics. Westport: Praeger.
  • Geddes, G. (2006). 20th-century poetry and poetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Gilbert, A. (2006). Another future: Poetry and art in postmodern twilight. Middletown: Wesleyan Press.
  • McGann, J. (2007). The point is to change it: Poetry and criticism in the continuing present. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
  • Eliot, T.S. (1932). Selected essays. London: Faber & Faber.

Journal References

  • Victorian Poetry
  • Yale Journal of Criticism
  • Poetics Today
  • Poetry
  • Modernism/Modernity

Website References

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Poetry and Passion

  • Unit Code

    ENG3050

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit explores poetry as inspired both by a passion for language and a strong desire to make that language new. Thus, students investigate how poets have understood human consciousness and emotion through experiments in poetic language. The unit also examines how a literary form, such as poetry, participates in political and cultural change.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG2255, ENG3355

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse how poetic texts demonstrate innovations associated with relevant art movements of their times.
  2. Analyse the relation of poetic form to meaning in single texts.
  3. Analyse the ways in which poetry responds to and instigates change in its political and cultural contexts.
  4. Apply appropriate theories about poetics to the analysis of poetry.
  5. Compare and contrast with precision a range of poetic texts.

Unit Content

  1. Relevant theoretical and analytical models.
  2. Selected poetry from a range of periods and themes.
  3. Texts that provide a political and cultural understandings of selected poetry.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, workshops and web-based support.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayResearch essay40%
ExaminationExamination40%
AssignmentCreative Assessment20%

Text References

  • Galvin, M. (1999). Queer poetics. Westport: Praeger.
  • Geddes, G. (2006). 20th-century poetry and poetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Gilbert, A. (2006). Another future: Poetry and art in postmodern twilight. Middletown: Wesleyan Press.
  • McGann, J. (2007). The point is to change it: Poetry and criticism in the continuing present. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
  • Melaney, D. (2001). After ontology: Literary theory and modernist poetics. Albany: State University of New York Press.
  • Strand, M. (Ed.) (2001). The making of a poem: A Norton anthology of poetic forms. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Stewart, S. (2002). Poetry and the fate of the senses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Perloff, M. (2000). The poetics of indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (Avant-Garde and Modernism studies). Chicago: Northwestern University Press.
  • Padgett, R. (2007). The teachers and writers handbook of poetic forms. New York: Teachers and Writers Collaborative.
  • Eliot, T.S. (1932). Selected essays. London: Faber & Faber.

Journal References

  • Modernism/Modernity
  • Poetry
  • Poetics Today
  • Yale Journal of Criticism
  • Victorian Poetry

Website References

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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