by GabrielAdmin | Sep 20, 2022 | Teaching Through Imitation Content
Imitation is perhaps at its best when it’s wrong. Not ethically wrong, but ‘off’ or flawed. This isn’t to say that a worse imitation is somehow qualitatively better than one that is accurate, but that when imitation takes its subject matter as merely a start or distanced reference point, something interesting can happen. To illustrate this, I will mainly wish to mainly talk about my own experiences with imitation, particularly those of a poetry student taking the Ludic Literature module as part of a Creative Writing MA.
by GabrielAdmin | Aug 20, 2019 | New, Teaching
Introduction In the final week, we turn to the haiku, a well-known but often not well-understood form of ancient Japanese poetry, as well as other Japanese forms such as the haiban and the renga. The haiku form was created by a group of Japanese 17th century poets,... 
by GabrielAdmin | Aug 20, 2019 | New, Teaching
Introduction This week turns to the complex stanza, which arises out of the Baroque stylings of the golden age of Spanish poetry. The complex stanza is one in which there is a fixed and repeated, but intricate and twisting, pattern of rhymes and rhythms which the poet... 
by GabrielAdmin | Aug 20, 2019 | New, Teaching, Uncategorized
Introduction This week looks at the sonnet in an attempt to get students to see beyond just the rhyme scheme and metrical traditions, but to see the sonnet as a particular vehicle for various different kinds of rhetorical effects. The structure of the sonnet... 
by GabrielAdmin | Aug 20, 2019 | New, Teaching
Introduction This week looks at the Persian poet Hafiz (also transliterated as Hafez) and the poetic form of the ghazal which he mastered. Hafiz’s was a lyrical poetry, with his ghazals often celebrating love or expressing feelings of loss. He was born in Shiraz,... 
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