A college is launching what’s believed to be the primary Taylor Swift-inspired literature course of its variety in Europe.
The elective course on the College of Ghent in Belgium highlights the themes, kinds and methods of well-known historic literary writers from the US pop celebrity’s perspective, say reviews.
The singer-songwriter’s songs are sometimes impressed by English literature classics and embrace themes which additionally seem in Romeo and Juliet, Jane Eyre and Alice in Great amongst others, based on teachers.
As an illustration, Swift‘s Love Story particulars a forbidden union between two younger lovers, a latter-day Romeo and Juliet.
And within the monitor Wonderland, Swift, 33, compares a relationship to the twists and turns within the Lewis Carroll story, together with the track’s lyrics “we fell down a rabbit gap”.
The course might be taught by British professor Elly McCausland who will use Swift’s work as a springboard to discover literature over the centuries.
The course, on account of begin within the autumn, known as Literature (Taylor’s Model) and might be added to the grasp’s diploma in language and literature.
Ms McCausland advised The Guardian: “What I wish to do is present college students that though these texts may appear inaccessible, they are often accessible if we have a look at them from a barely totally different angle.
“So, Shakespeare, in a roundabout way, is definitely addressing a whole lot of the identical questions as Taylor Swift is at present, which appears loopy. However he’s.”
The tutorial stated that in Swift’s The Nice Struggle she noticed parallels with how Sylvia Plath wrote about struggle and battle to point out the ache she felt in her poem Daddy.
Additionally, the way in which the US singer’s track Mad Girl covers patriarchy and psychological well being may very well be linked to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s brief story The Yellow Wallpaper.
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Ms McCausland insisted the “major focus is literature” and the course could be grounded in teachers, fairly than organising a fan membership, however she desires her college students to “suppose critically about Swift”.
“I wish to present my college students how a lot enjoyable historic English literature will be,” she advised Het Laaatste Nieuws.
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She is not the primary to convey Swift into the college classroom.
New York College’s Clive Davis Institute launched a Swift-inspired course final yr.
It lined Swift’s evolution as a music entrepreneur, the legacy of pop and nation songwriters, discourses of youth and girlhood, and the politics of race in up to date fashionable music.