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Modern/Postmodern
American Poetry - Spring 2005 - Prof. Steve
Evans
After Patriarchal
Poetry? Feminism, Gender, and the Avant-Garde in 20th-Century American
Poetry & Poetics
Course
Description
This seminar
will focus on the many convergences and contradictions between two powerful
social and theoretical forces within modernity: avant-gardism and feminism.
We will anchor our investigation in the works of four writers of the
early 20th centuryGertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, Mina Loy, and
William Carlos Williamsbut our collective researches will reach
into the present as well, with a likely emphasis on the work of contemporaries
like Lyn Hejinian, Alice Notley, Rosmarie Waldrop, Bernadette Mayer,
and others. Scholars and theorists likely to be discussed include: Susan
Rubin Suleiman (Subversive Intent), Peter Bürger (Theory
of the Avant-Garde), Janet Lyons (Manifestoes), Cary Nelson
(Repression and Recovery), Rachel Blau DuPlessis (The Pink
Guitar), Judith Butler (Gender Trouble), Julia Kristeva (Revolution
in Poetic Language), Juliana Spahr (Everybody's Autonomy)
and others.
Required
Texts
Marcel Duchamp Writings of Marcel Duchamp
Mina Loy Lost Lunar Baedeker
Gertrude Stein Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
William Carlos Williams Imaginations
William Carlos Williams Paterson
Mary Margaret Sloan, ed. Moving Borders: Three Decades of
Innovative Writing by Women
Evaluation
Six 300-500 word annotations of articles, essays, or book chapters
One 1000 word annotation with timeline of a biography of Stein,
Williams, Loy, or Duchamp
One 1000 word annotation and in-class presentation of a scholarly
or theoretical monograph
Research paper of approximately 20 pages
Disability
Notice
If you
wish to request an accommodation for a disability, please speak with
me or with Ann Smith, Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities
(Onward Building, 1-2319) as early as possible in the semester.
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