University students in the city of Ghent are studying the literary aspects of the singer-songwriter’s body of work.
GHENT: A hubbub grips the class in the Belgian city of Ghent as university students eagerly discuss whether US pop star Taylor Swift is a “literary genius”.
“To read her lyrics without the context of the song, it can feel like poetry,” one student says, after the teacher opens the floor to discussion. Well, they are all the subject of Elly McCausland’s course called “Literature ” for Master’s degree students at Ghent University, which will run until the end of the year.
Laughter often fills the windowless auditorium, despite the fact that serious themes are on the agenda, including feminism, sexism and misogyny. After attending a concert during Swift’s record-breaking Eras tour, Bate wrote in the Sunday Times in April: “I came away with confirmation of a thought I first had 15 years ago: this isn’t just high-class showbiz, Taylor Swift is a real poet.”New York University’s Clive Davis Institute launched its first-ever course on Swift last year, and Queen Mary University of London offered a summer school this year looking at Swift through a literary lens.
For Clio Doyle, an academic who hosted the summer course at Queen Mary, “Swift is a really fascinating songwriter”.
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