"Ennobling new found tropes with problems old" - Early Modern Sonnets (FS BA Seminar Literature)
Dienstag, 05.12.2023
Philip Sydney refers to poetry as “ennobling new found tropes with problems old” in Astrophil and Stella and just like he, many early modern English sonneteers write about their own writing almost as insistently as their poem’s speakers address their beloved. Shakespeare’s sonnet 18 even promises eternal life: “when in eternal lines to time thou grow’st;/ So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,/ So long lives this, and this give life to thee”. “This” – the sonnet, and in particular the early modern sonnet, by Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Donne, Milton, and others, is what we will read and analyse in this class: we will engage with form and function, tropes and schemes, hone our skills at discussing poetry while using the appropriate terminology, and discuss how sonnets are (and often advertise themselves as) a unique form of poetry. Required Reading: Please buy the Penguin Book of the Sonnet, ed. Phillips Levin, 2001, and start reading. In preparation for the first session, please choose one sonnet (also among the more recent ones if you like) that particularly speaks to you.
| Veranstaltungsart: | Vorlesung/Seminar |
|---|---|
| Dozierende(r): | Dr. Nicole Andrea Nyffenegger-Staub |
| 05.12.2023: | 14:15 - 15:45 |
| Ort: |
Unitobler Lerchenweg 36 3012 Bern EG, F006 |
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