Sumários
On Reading Poetry
30 Janeiro 2020, 10:00 • Don Howard Bialostosky
The instructor provided a model for reading poetry that attends to the interactions of a speaker, an addressee, a topic or hero of the poem, and precedent speakers to whom the speaker is responding. The relations among these persons in a particular kind of utterance in a particular situation will be the main thing to look for. He illustrated this method of reading by engaging the class in a reading of Langston Hughes’”Theme of Englsh B,” Its speaker responds to an assignment quoted at the outset of the poem with a meditation on his identity that issues in his theme, a theme that discovers a common and uncomfortable American identity shared with the instructor and makes the speaker realize he has something to teach his teacher.
Introductions and Procedures and Black History
28 Janeiro 2020, 10:00 • Don Howard Bialostosky
The instructor introduced the focus of the course on African American poetry from the Second World War with a focus on contemporary poets, especially those connected with Cave Canem, a project that has fostered Black poetry for the past 25 years. Provided some overviews of African American History—-available on the web.