LIT 5038 Fall 2022 Weise
Fall
2022
LIT 5038
Studies in Poetry: The Poet as Spy
The Cyborg Jillian Weise
Since we live in the age of the ubiquitous status update, you are already familiar with spying and being spied, watching and being watched. So you will make that familiarity manifest by considering how you duplicate yourself for the public, perform multiple selves and act according to certain codes depending on audience or genre. Broad questions: How does surveillance serve poetry? Which poets have been spies? What is the function of close observation for the poet?
Requirements: This course satisfies the requirement for coursework in the following Areas of Concentration: Post-1900 Literary and Cultural Studies; Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; a Literary Genre (Poetry).