"American Poetry from Self to Systems: the Poetry of Expansion". This course traces the evolution of American poetry from the mid-19th century to the 21st century, focusing on how poets articulate individual and collective identity within changing social and political systems. Starting with Whitman and Dickinson, the program highlights the specificity of poetic language and its interconnections with fundamental cultural and political themes and conflicts in the history of the United States. The course offers an overview of the poetic discourse that spans the 20th century, focusing on key voices in the American canon, from Modernism to the postwar period and contemporary times, concluding with examples of contemporary digital and performative poetics, emphasizing poetry as a system of language, identity, and technology.
- Profesor: Cristina Iuli