Literary Interpretation: Interpreting Poetry
21L.701 · Literature · Undergraduate · Fall 2003
Prof. Alvin Kibel
<p>This seminar offers a course of readings in lyric poetry. It aims to enhance the student’s capacity to understand the nature of poetic language and the enjoyment of poetic texts by treating poems as messages to be deciphered.</p> <p>The seminar will briefly touch upon the history of theories of figurative language since Aristotle and it will attend to the development of those theories during the last thirty years, noting the manner in which they tended to consider figures of speech dist…
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