Taylor Swift’s songwriting will be the subject of a new literature course at a Texas university this autumn.
The pop megastar’s songs will be “read” alongside literary giants such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Keats and Plath. The course - titled The Taylor Swift Songbook - will be on offer at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) later this year.
The course will use “the songwriting of pop music icon Taylor Swift to introduce literary critical reading and research methods—basic skills for work in English literature and other humanities disciplines,” according to the description on the UTA website. It adds: “We’ll consider frameworks for understanding her work, such as poetic form, style, and history among various matters and theoretical issues important to contextualization as we practice close and in-depth reading, evaluating secondary sources, and building strong arguments.”
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Preliminary texts for students include the albums Red (Taylor’s Version), Lover, Folklore and Evermore. UTA follows in the footsteps of New York University (NYU), which has previously offered a course on Taylor as a music entrepreneur, and the various songwriters who helped shape her career.
It comes after a separate university in Texas announced it will be offering a course based on the work of Harry Styles from 2023. The course - Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet, and European Pop Culture - will be on offer at Texas State University Honours College from next spring.
It will focus on the pop megastar’s work in music and film in order to “understand the cultural and political development of the modern celebrity.”
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