Spring 2025
ENGLISH 190 004 - SEM 004
Research Seminar
Modernist Poetics
Geoffrey O'Brien
Class #:16502
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
English
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
3
Enrolled: 14
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 17
Waitlist Max: 5
Open Reserved Seats:
3 reserved for English Majors with 5 or more Terms in Attendance
Hours & Workload
9 hours of outside work hours per week, and 3 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week.
Other classes by Geoffrey O'Brien
Course Catalog Description
Research-oriented and designed for upper-division English majors. Intensive examination of critical approaches, literary theory, or a special topic in literary and cultural studies. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester.
Class Description
This course will survey some of the major poems and statements of poetics produced by transatlantic anglophone Modernism and contend with many of its concerns--war, urbanization, secularization, mass media, political economy, class, race, gender, the archive--and the renovations in form deemed necessary for treating them. Poets considered will include Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and George Oppen, among others.
Class Notes
Book List:
All readings will be drawn from a Course Reader available on bCourses
All readings will be drawn from a Course Reader available on bCourses
Rules & Requirements
Requisites
- English 100 is prerequisite to English 190.
Repeat Rules
Reserved Seats
Reserved Seating For This Term
Current Enrollment
Open Reserved Seats:
Terms in Attendance:
Undergraduate Classifications Information
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
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Associated Sections
None