ENGH 685: Selected Topics, Movements, or Genres of Literature in English

ENGH 685-003: C.D Wright: The Art of Crossing Genre
(Spring 2018)

04:30 PM to 07:10 PM M

David J. King Hall 2054

Section Information for Spring 2018

Born in Arkansas and often heralded as a Southern writer, C.D.Wright (1949-2016) is one our most beloved of contemporary poets.  Her work is quirky, idiosyncratic, fiercely engaged in social consciousness, innovative, and consistently referred to as uncategorizable. “I am a serious border-crosser,” C.D.Wright said in an early interview.  And it’s true.  Author of poetry, prose, mixed-genre experiments, and translation, the borders she traverses belong not only to poetry (including the list, the lyric, narrative and epic), but to broader disciplines, including documentary, anthropology, biography and history.   This seminar, which welcomes writers and readers of prose and poetry, will examine Wright’s work against the cultural, political, and aesthetic concerns of this new century. Reading will include writers she championed and from whom she drew inspiration, such as W.S. Merwin, Ron Silliman, Robert Creeley and Bermilr Brigham, as well as examples of work contextually relevant to the genres her work challenged—writers like Mark Nowak and Michael Ondaatje.  Writing assignments will merge the creative and the critical; students will be encouraged to write across genre.

If you are unfamiliar with C.D. Wrights’ work and would like a quick tutorial, please check out: 1) this brief video “Poet C.D. Wright Weaves History, Reporting, Storytelling in Verse,” from PBS News Hour:http://www.pbs.org/newshour/poetry/poet-cd-wright-weaves-history-reporting-storytelling-in-verse/; 2) C.D.Wright reading “Flame”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51055/flame-56d22e8d6c815

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Content varies. Notes: May be repeated with permission of department. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 12 credits.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Lecture, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.

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