ENGL 128SS: |
Literary Genres
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The Sonnet and the Sonneteer |
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| Fall 2009 |
| Instructor: Kris McAbee |
| Meets on: TR 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM GIRV 1115 |
| Prerequisites: Writing 2, 50, or 109; English 10; or upper-division standing |
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| Satisfies a GE area G and a Writing requirement |
| http://ucsbsonneteer.wordpress.com |
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 12 units provided the letter designations are different, but only 8 units may be applied to the English major.
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A survey and investigation of the means and motives of sonneteering, from
13th-Century Italian word games through 21st-Century java script sonnet
generators and digital poetry. This course will ask how the sonnet has
endured as a poetic form and what it means to be a “sonneteer.” Authors
include: Petrarch, Wyatt, Locke, Sidney, Shakespeare, Wroth, Wordsworth,
Keats, Browning, Rossetti, St. Vincent Millay, Cummings, Yeats, Owen,
Auden, Berrigan, Queneau. |
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