Poetry Workshop

Recommended Prerequisites

Level C1 in English.

Teaching Methods

It is compulsory to write a response for each and every session. This response will be read at the beginning of the next session. A reading list will support the debate and there will be some theoretical as well as historical contextualization teaching. Every written text are to be collected in a portfolio to be delivered at the end of the semester. All of them must include a short explanation of their nature and purpose. The assessment will take into account this portfolio, the students participation in the debates, and a final paper reflecting on his/her own writing.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be challenged to:

1. try and understand poetic experimentalism;

2. learn about movements and authors in their relation to historical circumstances as well as to western literary and artistic traditions;

3. to experiment with the imitation of diverse genres and styles;

4. to vary in search of innovation and transgression;

5. to cross different practices and forms of writing;

6. to reflect upon the politics of poetic forms;

7. to problematize poetic writing of the 20th and 21st centuries, its literary and inter­artistic hybridity (namely ekphrasis, the theater and cinema strategies), as well as its conceptual approach to some recent scientific proposals;

8. to strengthen their reading and critical skills,

9. to test their skills for research and to develop autonomous work.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

This seminar is essentially practical and laboratorial, offering the possibility to experiment with diverse creative writing exercises, in or out of class. From them a debate will be launched, supported by a reading list that will include poems as well as other poetic or metapoetic texts with a more theoretical and/or essayistic character. Students must be aware of the material nature of the writing process and there will be a challenge to explore literary possibilities within the contemporary scope at the same time that an historical contextualization is underway.

Head Lecturer(s)

Graça Maria Constantino Nunes de Oliveira Capinha

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Participation, oral presentation : 15.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 25.0%
Synthesis work: 60.0%

Bibliography

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BERNSTEIN, C. (2016). Pitch of Poetry. Chicago: University of Chicago

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