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ence Williams achievement against the background of other Modernists: Pound, Yeats, Stein, Frost, Eliot, Stevens, Joyce, Moore, Loy, Crane, Kandinsky, Picasso, Gris, Braque, Matisse, Duchamps, Demuth, Scheeler, and Antheil, etc. Texts include Williamss collected poems, Paterson, In the American Grain, fiction, plays, and letters. Paul Mariani EN 784 Studies in Early Modern Poetry (Fall: 3) An exploration of poetry from the Tudor and Stuart eras, with some attention to theories of editing that respond to the differences among poems by Shakespeare and Jonson, Donne and Milton. Concentration on developments in erotic and in religious lyrics, the emergence of satire, and the transition from manuscript culture to print publication. Other poets likely to be featured include Sidney, Spenser, the Countess of Pembroke, Herbert, Marvell, and the young Milton. Dayton Haskin EN 785 Stuart Literature and Culture (Spring: 3) This course investigates the early seventeenth century in Britain through canonical and non-canonical materials. Our central concern will be the representation of the body in competing discourses the medical, the juridical, the political, and the aesthetic. The bodys regulation and refinement will be considered through conduct manuals, masques, and diaries. Topics to be explored may include gender and sexual difference; virginity; deviance; the reproductive body; colonial bodies and foreign tongues; anatomical and funereal practices; melancholy; boundaries, identification, and individuation. Readings may include works by John Donne, Shakespeare, George Herbert, Gabriel Harvey, and John Milton. Amy Boesky EN 787 Ireland: The Colonial Context (Spring: 3) As Seamus Deane asserts, Ireland is the only Western European country that has had both an early and a late colonial experience. This course spans the major cultural and historical moments and surveys the associated literary production connecting these experiences: from the Elizabethan plantations to post-independent Irelands decolonization. The main objective is to evaluate how Irish culture manifests and/or resists the colonial encounter. Particular attention is paid to the issues of language and authority, and to representations of place, gender, and identity. Students engage with a wide variety of writers and cultural critics. James M. Smith EN 791 Avante-Garde (Fall: 3) This interdisciplinary course will track avant-garde practice in a selection of textual and visual works produced in the twentieth century. We will focus on two moments: the early decades of the historical avant-gardes (Futurism, Dada, Surrealism), and the resurgence of avant-garde transgressions in the aesthetics and politics of postmodernism. We will survey the debates between various theorists of the avant-garde (Burger, Poggioli, Benjamin, Adorno, Jameson), and study some exemplary manifestoes by avant-garde artists and writers (Marinetti, Tzara, Breton, Cixous, Haraway). Additional readings will include texts by and about Duchamp, Breton, Ernst, Carrington, Bellmer, Hoch, Stein, Wittig, Burroughs and others. Robin Lydenberg EN 792 Critical Approaches to the Gothic (Spring: 3) The course will consider classic and contemporary issues about Gothic fiction from the late eighteenth century to the present its relationship to Enlightenment, reason, consciousness, and religion, its implication in nation-making and race, gender and sexuality, its evocation of processes of repression and retrieval, loss, lack and plenitude. Well also be concerned with the history of this unstable genre, its relationship with writing and legibility, with its persistence in classic high culture texts of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Heavy/scary reading from Frankenstein and Melmoth the Wanderer through Victorian classics. Judith Wilt EN 801 Thesis Seminar (Fall: 3) The Department EN 802 Joyces Ulysses (Fall: 3) This course will be dedicated to an extended exploration of James Joyces Ulysses, a novel that has often been called the most important literary work of the twentieth century. Most of our time will be devoted to an intensive reading of the novel itself, but we will also read selected critical and historical materials. No prior knowledge of Joyces works is required, just a willingness to tackle the challenges offered by his most influential masterpiece. Marjorie Howes EN 810 Pedagogy and the Public Sphere (Fall: 3) Within the field of English, especially in rhetoric and composition, are various pedagogies and initiatives that seek to connect students, classes, or faculty to local communities and public issues in a variety of ways. This course explores the theoretical bases for public-sphere engagement within English studies and surveys the range of publicly oriented English pedagogies, including critical pedagogy, cultural-studies pedagogies (including place-based writing and ethnographies), service learning, community literacy, and online and community publishing. Paula Mathieu EN 813 Immigrant Narratives (Fall: 3) Explores literature, non-fiction writing, and film that foregrounds the immigrant experience in the United States. We will look at narratives that establish the immigrant mythology (Yezierskas Bread Givers), revise it (Godfather Part II), and challenge its foundations (Proulxs Accordion Crimes). We will consider alternative models for understanding the transnational flow of people, including refugees (Fadimans The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down), diaspora (Bollywood film Kabhi Kushi Kabhie Gham), and borderlands (Lone Star). We will also read an Indian novel about people who failed to become immigrants (Mistrys Family Matters). Christina Klein EN 814 Modern Irish Poetry (Fall: 3) A survey of Irish poetry since the death of W.B. Yeats in 1939. Among topics to be discussed will be the influence of Yeats on subsequent Irish poets, the emergence of a distinctly post-colonial voice on both sides of the Border between North and South, and, more specifically, the interaction between poetry and politics in the North of Ireland over the past three decades. Among poets to be read will be Patrick Kavanaugh, Austin Clarke, Louis Mac Neice, Thomas Kinsella, Mssirtin Diressin, M ire Mhac an tSaoi, Seamus Heany, Paul Muldoon, Nuala N Dhomnaill, Medbh McGuckiean, and Evan Boland. Philip T. OLeary EN 817 Seminar: the New Historicism (Fall: 3) This course engages both the theory and the practice of New Historicism, from its origins in anthropology and Continental philosophy to recent work in cultural studies, emphasizing Althusser and Jameson, Michel Foucault, Stephen Greenblatt and Louis Montrose, ARTS AND SCIENCES The Boston College Catalog 2006-2007 119

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