Carries A & H and Culture Studies credits.
MW  1:00-2:15

The focus of this course is the sonnet, and its appearances in
English, French, German, Hebrew and Italian.  After familiarizing
ourselves with the genre and its prosodic variations, we will turn
to various moments in literary history, and especially to peaks in
the publication of sonnets in European and American literatures: the
birth of the genre in 12th and 13th century Italy (both in Italian
and Hebrew); Elizabethan England; 19th century Germany, Russia and
Palestine; Palestine and France in the early 20th century; the
United States in the 20th century.  Primary readings will be
accompanied by selections in literary criticism.  In reading these
poems in relation to their historical locations, the class will
consider issues of intertextuality, gender and genre, prosody and
meaning.

Reading includes sonnets by da Lentino, Dante, Petrarch, Heinrich
Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Valery, Charles Baudelaire,
Shakespeare, Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Frost, Emma Lazarus,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emmanuel Haromi, Shaul Tchernichovsky,
David Avidan, Yehuda Amichai, Dalia Rabikovitch, Aharon Shabtai.