ALL727 - Sex, the Body, and American Poetry
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online 2025 is the final offering of this unit |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 1 x 2 hour on-campus seminar per week |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 1 x 2-hour online seminar per week or approximately 2-hours of online learning tasks and discussions per week |
Content
This unit will introduce students to how poets have navigated and transformed cultural understandings surrounding sex, gender, and the body. Focusing on writing from the United States, students will consider how the poetic has been mobilised in different historical periods to explore aspects of desire, intimacy, subjectivity, and intersectionality. Students will be familiarised with a range of forms, techniques, and literary movements (such as transcendentalism, modernism, Confessional, the Beats, and New York School). Through critical and creative approaches, students will also gain insights into aspects of voice, agency, and audience. Writers studied may include Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde, Joy Harjo, and Maggie Nelson.
Unit Fee Information
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