A class being offered at Harvard on Taylor Swift next semester is officially titled \u201cEnglish 183ts. Taylor Swift and Her World.\u201d A critic who will teach the course has revealed why it is worthy of study.
But when her class was announced last month, many began to wonder out loud if a \u201cmillennial pop star deserves this kind of treatment at a world-class university.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stephanie Burt, a literary critic who will teach the course at Harvard, penned a convincing argument in The Atlantic and deftly argued that students \u201cbenefit from studying art that they love — art new and old, art in many genres,\u201d reports etonline.com.
It\u2019s not the first time a Swift class is available at an institution of higher learning. Stanford, NYU and the University of Texas at Austin are just some of the universities offering similar courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The hour-long class at Harvard will aim to explore Swift\u2019s many genres and the economic impact she\u2019s had in cities across the world when she arrives to perform her Eras Tour. The class will also examine her catalogue (Taylor\u2019s Version).
\u201cWe will learn how to think about illicit affairs, and hoaxes, champagne problems and incomplete closure. We will look at her precursors, from Dolly Parton to the Border Ballads, and at work about her (such as the documentary Miss Americana),\u201d the class synopsis continues.
\u201cAnd we will read literary works important to her and works about song and performance, with novels, memoirs and poems by (among others) Willa Cather, James Weldon Johnson, Tracey Thorn, and William Wordsworth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Burt says her students \u201cwill analyse Swift\u2019s work, think in detail about it, maybe create footnotes to it, in order to see how the verbal skills and musical elements that move us are not just all in our head — they are choices Swift makes to communicate a particular message or feeling.\u201d In doing so, Burt hopes to \u201ctake advantage \u2026 of a room full of Swifties to introduce hundreds of students to these poems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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