Unit name | On the Matter of Poetry: Concrete and Material Poetics in 20th Century Brazil and Chile |
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Unit code | HISP20094 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Dr. Kosick |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
none |
Co-requisites |
none |
School/department | Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will be taught by Rebecca Kosick.
Rather than asking if poetry matters, this unit begins from the assumption that it does and, from there, goes on to ask how. With 20th century Brazil and Chile as its context, this unit will explore a variety of poetic practices that favored the material, visual, and spatial aspects of language over the discursive or communicative. Because many of the works to be considered blur the lines between the poetic and the plastic arts, this unit will have an interdisciplinary framework, drawing from literary studies, as well as art history, and studies of the object.
On the Matter of Poetry is offered as either a Spanish or a Portuguese unit. Students will work with primary materials in both languages. However, English translations of critical texts will also be available to those students who may have experience with only one of these.
Aims:
At the close of this unit, students will have
Please include reference to any distance learning or any significant e-learning components, if appropriate
This unit will be primarily taught in a seminar-style with active student participation.
The summative assessment will consist of 1 2-hour exam (50%) and one 2000-word essay (50%), both testing ILOs 1-5. Formative assessment will include weekly discussion comments and in-class activities, such as collaborative exercises and brief presentations.
Because many of the texts this class will examine are rare or non-traditional (for example, not taking the form of books at all), most will be made available on Blackboard and will include poems by: