Week 6: Poetry and Meaning

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Monday, September 26

In Class

Assignment

  • Identify a product or menu item that uses the poetic function of language to make it more attractive (See #alliterationfoods for examples). Write a brief analysis in which you discuss how it uses language.
  • Post in ASULearn before class on Wednesday.

Wednesday, September 28

In Class

  • Lecture and discussion on meaning in poetry

Assignment

  • You have a paper due on Monday. Go do that!
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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.