Week 15: Poetic Contexts

Monday, January 15

Wednesday, January 17

  • In class
    • Lecture on poetic traditions as context.
    • Divide class into groups:
      1. Renaissance and Restoration English poetry
      2. Romanticism (English and American)
      3. Victorian Poetry
      4. Modernism
      5. Confessional and Postconfessional Poetry
      6. Uncreative Writing and Flarf

Friday, January 19

  • In class
    • Group work on assigned poetic traditions
  • Assignment
    • Use one of the Google Slides available in this shared folder (UPR login required) for your presentation.
    • Be prepared to offer 10 minute group presentations
    • Presentations should cover:
      • an overview of the poetic movement
      • an explanation of its poetics
      • some of its major poets
      • a poem that exemplifies the movement
    • Schedule:
      • Monday, January 22: Groups 1-3
      • Wednesday, January 24: Groups 4-6

By Leonardo Flores

Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. He taught at the English Department at University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus from 1994 to 2019. He is President of the Electronic Literature Organization. He was the 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. His research areas are electronic literature and its preservation via criticism, documentation, and digital archives. He is the creator of a scholarly blogging project titled I ♥ E-Poetry, co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and has a Spanish language e-lit column in 80 Grados. He is currently co-editing the first Anthology of Latin American Electronic Literature. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.