Lyric Memory

This seminar will examine modern lyric's capacity to remember. We will read a range of lyric poems dealing with history and memory, from Romanticism to Postmodernism, alongside a selection of lyric theory, in order to consider the lyric attempt to process experiences of trauma, atrocity and time. We will learn to identify aspects of lyric and to apply theoretical literature critically to analyse poetic texts. By bringing the lyric poems of poets such as John Keats and Sylvia Plath into dialogue with the work of thinkers such as Jonathan Culler, we will think about the connection between lyric and memory, and the place that lyric might have in the representation of history.

Participation for BA6 seminars is capped at 18, including the teacher. Registration via Moodle will open on Tuesday, 18 February at 9AM. If you are not able to register, this means that the class has filled up and that you will not be able to follow the seminar: please do not come to class on Monday 24 February, if you are not registered on the Moodle page.