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Welcome to our short course on American modernist poetry, one of the most important phenomena in the global culture of the 20th century.
About the instructor:
Isra Daraiseh is an associate professor of English at the Arab Open University in Kuwait. Her research focuses on comparative studies of Western and Middle Eastern literature and popular culture, with a special focus on the impact of the global historical process of modernization. Her publications include the books Tony Soprano’s America: Gangsters, Guns, and Money (2017) and Consumerist Orientalism: The Convergence of Arab and American Popular Culture in the Age of Capitalist Globalization (2019), as well as essays on such topics as the television series Black Mirror, the film Joker, and the novel Frankenstein in Baghdad.
Course description:
This course is designed to provide a basic introduction to the phenomenon of literary modernism, with a special emphasis on American modernist poetry. It will include coverage of a number of poems by many of the most important American modernist poets.
Course objectives and learning outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this course will achieve a basic understanding of the characteristics of literary modernism. Illustrating the concept of modernism with numerous examples from American modernist poetry, this course will introduce students to a number of important American poems. Students who complete the course will be able to describe the basic characteristics of literary modernism; they will be able to describe the basic characteristics of the poetry of several major American modernist poets; and they will be able to read and understand the examples of modernist poetry included in the course.
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Review the PowerPoints on Modernism
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Word 2007 document
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Review the PowerPoints
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Opened: Tuesday, 16 July 2024, 12:00 AM
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AssignmentOpened: Tuesday, 16 July 2024, 12:00 AM
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Opened: Tuesday, 16 July 2024, 12:00 AM
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Opened: Tuesday, 16 July 2024, 7:16 PM
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