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Why I teach a course connecting Taylor Swift’s songs to the works of Shakespeare, Hitchcock and Plath

November 23, 2022 by Elizabeth Scala

Analyzing Swift’s writing will hopefully help my students recognize how certain poetic and literary devices operate in older texts – as much as those same books and poems from the past help them appreciate Swift’s art at a deeper level. Swift, like all artists, is part of a great tradition, and she calls upon it to create new works.

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