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Poetry for Children
Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:35-4:50 |
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Course
Description: In a recent publication, renowned children’s literature critic Peter Hunt declared that there is no theory in or of children’s poetry. In this class, we will prove him wrong. We will begin by learning how to read and think about poetry for ourselves, and then suss out what is distinctive and important about children’s poetry in terms of its structure, meaning, and importance in the development of literary understanding in children and young people. We will not only discuss poetry, but perform it as well. The course will thus serve as an introduction to the study of poetry, with particular attention to the distinctive forms and uses of children’s poetry in the context of the various subdisciplines of English Studies (that is, rhetoric, linguistics, pedagogy, literary and cultural history and theory).
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