2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
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ENG 202 - Reading Emily Dickinson

1 course unit
Emily Dickinson’s life, letters, and poems have attracted an unusually diverse set of “labels.”  She is variously described as Romantic, Modern, Post-Modern, Puritan, anti-Puritan, feminist, anti-feminist, a victim of psychological disorders (agoraphobia, anorexia, depression), a victim of patriarchal oppression, a genius, a great ironist, and more.  So Dickinson’s poetry offers us much to negotiate in the course, ways of reading as well as readings of individual poems.  We will also study poems by two twentieth century women writers, Elizabeth Bishop and Adrienne Rich, in light of Dickinson’s legacy, and try to trace Dickinson’s particular kind of “nature” poetry back to a seventeenth-century religious tradition she admired.
Meets departmental Texts/Contexts approach.
Meets general academic requirements HU and W.



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