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Description: Seminar & pre-1900.A seminar on the works of Charles Dickens. The sustained attention to a range of his novels willilluminate some of his specific contributions to the novel in English, as well as developmentsover the course of his career. We will consider character (the rendering of psychology and hischarismatic caricatures), narrative voice, plot structure, and setting, as well as the particularvision of social networks and sociality, with the pressures these exert on ethics and desire, and onpersonhood. We may read some short works and some important critical works, but our mainfocus will be on the novels.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 117N TuTh 04:30PM-05:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 11 / Total Seats: 16
Description: This Seminar considers the unmarried woman at the intersection of class, sexuality, and race from the early modern era to the present as a way of reflecting on pressing feminist issues from equal pay to workplace sexual misconduct.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 207S M 02:00PM-04:25PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 16 / Total Seats: 16
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Description: Irish literature written in English in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century registers and responds to a still palpable history of unjust colonial land settlements, revolution and war, a rural society in transition, famine and displacement. This course tracks the work of key Irish writers (Lady Morgan, Maria Edgeworth, Thomas Moore, Gerald Griffin and James Clarence Mangan) who together developeda distinctively textured aesthetic that draws on the past in order to shape new literary futures. Topics to include population, political economy, gender, memory, landscape and empire.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 207S Tu 02:00PM-04:25PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 16 / Total Seats: 16
Description: Satisfies the theory requirement for graduate students.What is the difference between Politics and The Political? What does political ontology mean, and how does it condition our interpretation of a literary text? How are the political and the ethical differentiated and related? What is the role of responsibility in ethics and politics?In this course we shall sample a variety of approaches to the political as developed by philosophers and activists to develop a reading protocol for identifying and interpreting the literary text. While concepts such as political contingency, sovereignty, normativity, and universality are crucial for grappling with the diverse manifestations of the political, the question of what constitutes the literary element in a given textual situation in contradistinction to literature and its politics of representation will serve as a focal point for our discussions. Theorists will include Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, Heidegger, John Rawls, Judith Butler, Bernard Williams, Foucault, Derrida, Gayatri Spivak and Nancy Fraser.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 207S Tu 04:30PM-06:55PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 15 / Total Seats: 15
Description: This course satisfies the theory requirement for graduate students. A course on psychoanalytic theory, featuring works by Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, Zizek, Dolar, and possibly Abraham and Torok, Deleuze, and Han. We will focus on concepts such as melancholia & abjection, masochism, fetishism, castration/lack, the drive (in particular, the death drive), the gaze, transference, love/desire, sublimation, the Symbolic/Imaginary/Real triad, andjouissance as well as the clinical categories of obsessional neurosis, hysteria, perversion, psychosis. We will read material on these thinkers, such as Fink's A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Restuccia'sAmorous Acts andThe Blue Box (on contemporary film), Zupancic'sWhat is Sex? as well as her newest book on Antigone, and possibly essays by Copjec. Especially through Zizek's Sexuality and the Failed Absolute, we will tie psychoanalysis to philosophy. Two papers will be required.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 121N W 07:00PM-09:30PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 14 / Total Seats: 16
Description: Matthew Arnold famously wrote "Art is a criticism of life." Naguib Mahfouz has taken this astep further: "Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, artwould be meaningless and cease to exist." Nineteenth-Century Poetry, Prose, and CulturalCriticism will explore connections among three different modes of Victorian writing: poetry,cultural criticism, and life writing. Authors we will read include Elizabeth Barrett Browning,John Keble, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins,Matthew Arnold, Annie Besant, Margaret Oliphant, Harriet Martineau, John Ruskin, FlorenceNightingale, Matthew Arnold, Frederic Harrison, and Leslie Stephen, among others. It will try toexamine the buried positions and controversies in these works. Most important, it will try toexamine the struggles of these works in the marketplace, and within the vivid milieux ofVictorian intellectual and literary life, taking into account their reception and dissemination; theirinfluence of lack of it, and their nascent afterlives.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 207S M 04:30PM-06:55PM
Time Category: Evening
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Description: Designed for students whose first language is not English, this course will emphasize the oral/aural language skills required for success in graduate work. It will provide students the opportunity to hone their speaking and listening skills through group discussions, presentations, and targeted practice in pronunciation, stress, and intonation through the reading of poetry and tongue twisters. The course may be particularly beneficial to those with teaching responsibilities at BC. Non-credit and offered free of charge by GSAS to its students during the fall semester. Students who enroll in the course are expected to attend all classes throughout the semester.The course is restricted to students in the Morrissey Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. If space permits, students from other schools will be considered.Admission to the course is by application and permission of the instructor.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 131N Tu 02:00PM-04:25PM
Time Category: Evening
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