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Literary Interpretation: Beyond the Limits of the Lyric

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21L.701
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2009English
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In this seminar we’ll read individual poems closely within a set of questions about the moral and political position of poetry – and of intellectuals – in different cultural contexts. Of course, part of the divergence in the social positions of poetry [and of ’the aesthetic’] depends on the dominant paradigm of the social, political and literary culture; part of the divergence derives from the momentum of literary development in the culture [how did the culture experience modernism?, for…

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