How one English professor 'Enchanted' students with a course about Taylor Swift songs

Long story short, Taylor Swift's music is chock full of literary value. 📚 And one University of Texas professor is exploring it in the classroom.

“'Tis the Damn Season” to listen to Taylor Swift. At least that's the case for the students enrolled in professorScala is an English professor at the University of Texas at Austin. This semester she began teaching a course connecting Swift's songwriting to the works of William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath and other literary greats.

“Just the really concrete and vivid imagery and intense narrative moments punctuating that song really gripped me and made me realize that this was what my students would get really excited about reading and interpreting and thinking about,” Scala says. “We came back to some other songs on ‘Fearless’… that kind of reused those tropes of fairy tale young love that ‘Love Story’ uses and does so in a kind of much more knowing and jaded way,” Scala says. “We got to talk about Taylor Swift's use of that fairy tale love story in a more sophisticated way than maybe ‘Love Story’ on its own might suggest.”Folklore” love triangle explored throughout the album.

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