Reading: Introduction to Deconstruction
28 Fevereiro 2020, 08:00 • Jacopo Masi
Final class on reader-response criticism with a brief introduction to deconstruction reading.
Analysis of John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and comparison with Shelley's "Ozymandias".
Keats's "negative capability".
The genre of "ekphrasis". Keats's poem vs Homer's ekphrasis of Achilles's shield (Iliad, book 18).
Beginning of comparison between Keats's ode and Philip Larkin's poem "An Arundel Tomb" (The Whitsun Weddings).