ENGL 313
Approaches to W. B. Yeats Spring 2016
Division I Writing Skills
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In this course we will read the poetry and selected prose and plays of William Butler Yeats, widely regarded as the single most influential English-language poet of the twentieth century. We will consider how his writings were shaped by and responded to the literary and political contexts of his time; how he conceived of authorial selfhood, its construction in language, and the functions of literature; and his transactions with his contemporaries (from Wilde to Pound to Auden). We will consider a range of critical and theoretical approaches to his writings, giving particular attention to textual materialism, to close study of both Yeats’s compositional process and his habits of repeated revision of published works, and to his formal techniques.
The Class: Format: tutorial
Limit: 10
Expected: 10
Class#: 3316
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: five papers of around 5 pages each; typical tutorial format
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites: a 100-level ENGL course, or a score of 5 on the AP English Literature exam, or a score of 6 or 7 on the Higher Level IB English exam
Enrollment Preferences: English majors
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills
Attributes: ENGL Criticism Courses
ENGL Literary Histories C

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