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Now students will also learn about Taylor Swift. The University of Ghent in Belgium will start a new literature course that will have as its object of study the lyrics of the singer Swift.
This fall, the course “Literature: Taylor's Version” will be available to students, curated by Professor Elly McCausland.
McCausland, author of the blog Swifterature, which compares Taylor Swift's themes, imagery and use of language to writers including Sylvia Plath, Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare, will use Swift's songs to engage with literature. from the medieval to the Victorian period.”
She had been thinking about such a course for a long time, an idea that crystallized after the release of the album "Midnights" last fall.
“There's a song on there called 'The Great War', which uses the First World War as an analogy for heartbreak. "It made me think of Sylvia Plath's poem, 'Daddy,' in which she uses the Holocaust to discuss her troubled relationship with her father," she said. "This appropriation of historical pain and war as a metaphor (for love and loss) — I started thinking about other literary parallels, and that's where the course was created."
Registration is open to everyone, including those who don't consider themselves fans of Taylor Swift or may never have come across her music.
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