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This seminar will give you a chance to get to know poems that tell stories. The narrative poem is an interesting literary form. It is in some respects similar to a short story, but usually much shorter, so a really good one really needs to be a miracle of minimalism. Such texts can utterly captivating, containing love stories (which may turn into stories about poisoning one’s lover), stories about life in the big city, stories about people that are up to no good, ghost stories, nonsense poems about hunting nonsensical animals etc. etc. etc. What are the essentials of storytelling? How do they come together with essentials of poetry, such as rhymes and rhythms and other sound effects? What happens when this is taken one step further and the poem is set to music? These are some of the questions that will be on our minds in the course of the semester. (And yes, we are going to listen to some narrative songs, especially old ballads). The poems we are going to work on will be made available via Moodle.
Requirements: Good preparation for each session, active participation. As always: read, think, enjoy (!), annotate, and look things up if necessary. Also: written work or oral exam according to your particular Studienordnung.
Just in case your application is rejected by the LSF system: If you want to do this course because you are genuinely interested, you will be most welcome, no matter what LSF says. Please get in touch with aj.naujoks-sprengel@uni-due.de who will enrol you manually. The worst that might happen to you is that you cannot do a Leistungsnachweis if you lack the formal requirements. |
