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  Metaphysical Poetry

Dozent/in
Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben
Hauptseminar
2 SWS
Zeit und Ort: Do 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt
Metaphysical is the name that was given to seventeenth-century English poetry by Samuel Johnson, a literary critic and neo-classicist of the Augustan Age who despised the overwhelmingly rich and elaborate imagery of these poets. They did not belong to a specific group or school of poets, but shared an imagery collectively rejected by poets of both the Renaissance and Neo-classicism. In Germany, this period is associated with a term taken from art history, Barock. The writers in both countries have in common the experience of war and the vanity of all earthly ambitions in a time of instability and violence.

Metaphysical poets were forgotten for a long time. Although the first traces of a recovery go back to the nineteenth century, their revival is certainly associated with T.S. Eliot, the modernist poet of the "Waste Land" (1922) who praised their sensibility lost in the work of John Milton and brought back to the English reader by Herbert Grierson's famous anthology of Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century (1921). Like the period after the First World War, the so-called Age of Revolution, the period of rapid and cruel changes, of regicide and Restoration developed a new spirituality and a new sense of the materiality of the world. John Donne described this age in the following words: "The new philosophy calls all in doubt, / The element of fire is quite put out;/ The sun is lost and the earth, and no man's wit/ Can well direct him where to look for it./ And freely men confess that this world's spent,/ When in the planets and the firmament/ They seek so many new; they see that this / Is crumbled out again to his atomies."

In the seminar we will read a variety of secular and religious poetry, discuss its language and talk about the context of metaphysical poetry.

Empfohlene Literatur
Colin Burrow, ed. Metaphysical Poetry (Penguin Classics) (2006)

Englischsprachige Informationen:
Credits: 8

Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft

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