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Course
information
English
440-01, CRN 17559
Asst. Professor
Steve Evans
Meets
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:15pm in Neville Hall 208
syllabus
• class log
Course
Overview
This course
will investigate the works of three major American modernist writers—Gertrude
Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky—within the context
of the social, political, artistic, and intellectual movements of their
day. Topics to be explored include: modernism and the avant-garde; erotic
economies and the writing of desire; the politics of poetic representation;
and the shaping of "American" identity in the first half of
the twentieth century.
Reading
A provisional
reading syllabus is available here.
As you will see there, rather than take each writer in isolation, we'll
pursue a braided strategy whereby each class session will touch upon
some texts/aspects of each writer, with emphases shifting from class
to class.
Assigned
Texts
Gertrude
Stein
Writings
1903-1931
Library of America (volume 99)
188301140X
William
Carlos Williams
Imaginations
New York: New Directions, 1971
0-8112-0229-1
Selected
Poems (edited by Charles Tomlinson)
New York: New Directions, 1985
0-8112-0958-X
Paterson
New York: New Directions, 1963
0-8112-0233-X
Louis
Zukofsky
"A"
Johns Hopkins, 1993
0801846684
Complete Short Poetry
Johns Hopkins, 1997
0801856566
Prepositions + [recommended]
Edited by Charles Bernstein and Mark Scroggins
Wesleyan
0819564281
Writing
& Projects
Students
will write formal essays of approximately 1000-words on each
of the three writers we'll be studying.
Students
will also bring to completion a substantial project centered
on one or more of the writers.
If you
intend to make this course you're capstone, it is essential that
you inform me of this decision within the first two meetings of class.
Evaluative
Criteria for Semester Grade
Formal
essays = 45 points (15 each)
Final project
= 45 points
Attendance,
participation, and preparedness = 10 points
Note that
attendance is mandatory. Semester grades will be lowered by one-third
for each unexcused absence in excess of the two permitted to all students.
If you
have a disability for which you may be requesting an accommodation,
please contact either the instructor or the Onward program (http://www.umaine.edu/onward/),
as early as possible in the term.
Assistant
Professor Steve Evans • 215 Neville Hall
• 581-3809 • "Steven Evans" on FC • OH Tuesdays
3:30-5pm
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