French Studies 667 - Twentieth-Century Poetry I
Fall
2013
01
3.00
Dianne Sears
TU 4:00PM 6:30PM
UMass Amherst
39814
Picturing Poetry: Twentieth-Century French Poetry and the Visual.
An exploration of interactions between twentieth-century French poetry and the visual arts, with emphasis on the first half of the century. Topics include calligrams or piture poems; the connection between cubist painting and Apollinaire's and Reverdy's poetry; the relationship between poetry and objects in Breton, Magritte, and Ponge; Eluard's poems describing painters; and the illustrated book, in which poems are accompanied by artists' renditions or in which artists' drawings are then "illustrated" by poems. Taught in French. Requirements: in-class presentations, one short paper, one longer term paper.
An exploration of interactions between twentieth-century French poetry and the visual arts, with emphasis on the first half of the century. Topics include calligrams or piture poems; the connection between cubist painting and Apollinaire's and Reverdy's poetry; the relationship between poetry and objects in Breton, Magritte, and Ponge; Eluard's poems describing painters; and the illustrated book, in which poems are accompanied by artists' renditions or in which artists' drawings are then "illustrated" by poems. Taught in French. Requirements: in-class presentations, one short paper, one longer term paper.