ENG 3931 Fall 2020 Weise

As students living in the age of the ubiquitous status update, you are already familiar with spying and being spied, watching and being watched, surveying and being surveyed. So you will make that familiarity manifest by considering the ways in which you duplicate yourself for the public, perform multiple selves and act according to certain codes for certain audiences. Broad questions for the course include: How does surveillance serve poetry? What is the function of close observation for the poet? How do poets make discoveries?