LIR 616Romantic Narrative Poetry: A Seminar

This course studies the Romantics’ long narrative poetic works and explores narrative poetry as a reflection of the Romantics’ concerns with fundamental topics that reflect the sociocultural age they lived in.. The course pays particular attention to long narrative poetry as a replacement for the epic. Texts include: Wordsworth’s “The Prelude,” “The Ruined Cottage,” and “Michael,” Coleridge’s “Christabel” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Byron’s “Don Juan” and “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” Shelley’s “Alastor” and “Epipsychidion,” and Keats’s “Endymion,” “Isabella,” and “Hyperion.” LIR 617 Identity Through Writing: Women Writers of the Arab World (3.0); 3 cr. This course will examine how Arab women have articulated and expressed their subjectivity, responded to cultural, social, political and familial demands, and created a literary and feminist aesthetic. Authors include Naomi Shihab Nye, Ahdaf Soueif, Evelyne Accad, Etel Adnan, Margot Badran, Fadia Faqir, and Diana Abu-Jaber.