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Haverford College
English Department

Course Guide

Spring 2016

Containing
Descriptions of Readings, Approaches, and
Course Conduct for all Departmental Offerings

DIVISIONAL
COURSE DISTRIBUTION NUMBER (HU, SO, NA, QU,
Social Justice)

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  • PREFERENCE
  • INSTRUCTOR

211b 253b 214b 232b 227b 274b
HU HU HU HU HU HU

  • Intro to Postcolonial (IE)
  • TTH 2:30-4

MW 1-2:30 TTH 8:30-10 TTH 2:30-4 W 1:30-4
R. Mohan S. Finley B. Parris J. Pryor
English Poetry from Tennyson to Eliot Literary Theory: The Human Performance, Literature and the Archive The Early Modern Period: Biopower from

  • Marlowe to Milton
  • B. Parris

  • D. Sherman
  • Modern Irish Literature (IE)
  • TTH 1-2:30

  • 289b
  • HU
  • Contemporary Poetics
  • WF 11:30-1
  • T. Devaney

  • T. Devaney
  • 292b

294b
HU HU

  • Poetry Writing II
  • F 1:30-4
  • 15

  • 15
  • Advanced Fiction Writing

Junior Seminar

  • W 1:30-4
  • A. Solomon

R. Mohan C. Zwarg
Sec I

  • Sec. II
  • 299a/298J HU
  • TTH 10-11:30

  • T 7:30-10
  • 347b

354b 361b
HU HU HU
Spectacle in 18-c London (GS) Remembrance and Mourning Literature of the Great War Topics in American Lit: The New Black

Arts Movement (AA)

  • 15
  • L. McGrane

  • S. Finley
  • M 7:30-10

MW 11:30-1 TTH 1-2:30
15

  • 15
  • A. Solomon

3 _ _ 399b
Topics in Anglo-Saxon Studies Senior Conference

  • 15
  • M. McInerney

  • RM, TZ, SF, AS , MM, LM. JP
  • HU

IE Intro Emphasis

CL Cross listed with Comp. Literature GS Gender & Sexuality Studies

English 211b TTH 2:30-4
R. Mohan HU III

Introduction to Postcolonial Literature

The term “postcolonial” is a complex and ambiguous one, but it has proven to be a useful rubric for the study of writings that emerge out of varied literary traditions from far-flung regions of the world that have in common the history of British colonization. This course will explore the nature and context of these writings, paying special attention to some of their common concerns such as: the representation of first contact, the influence of western education and the English language, the effects of colonial violence, the ways identity is shaped by displacement, migration, or exile, the challenges facing nation-building after colonialism, the internal hierarchies and conflicts in postcolonial societies, changing ways of relating to the environment, and the adjustments demanded of the erstwhile colonial metropolis as it transitions into a postcolonial city. We will address these questions by looking at specific aesthetic strategies such as resistance, allegory, mimicry, intertextuality, “writing back”, and magic realism that have come to be associated with this body of literature.

Readings will include:

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart J.M. Coetzee, Age of Iron Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide David Malouf, Remembering Babylon Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children Zadie Smith, White Teeth

Short stories and poetry from India , Pakistan, South Africa, and the Caribbean; critical essays by Ngugi, Said, Brathwaite, Spivak, and Mohanty.

Requirements:

4 short papers (2-3 pages long) and 2 longer papers (5-8 pages long); a class presentation; and active participation in class discussions.

This course fulfills the English Department’s Introductory Requirement.

English 253b MW 1:00–2:30
S. Finley HU III

English Poetry from Tennyson to Eliot

This course will be organized around the poetry of several major poets, beginning with Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti and her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. We will approach this poetry of the mid-century, in part, via the visual arts, reading its Victorian romanticism and Arthurian mythos in relationship to Pre-Raphaelite painting and book illustration. One of the salient aspects of Victorian culture was the remarkable interconnection of poetry and painting and other graphic arts (these later much more widely influential through technical advances in reproduction). We will turn to consider two very different poets, almost from different worlds: Robert Browning of the well-known dramatic monologues, a public figure via his elopement with and marriage to the famous Elizabeth Barrett; and Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet forced to work in a private world of intense self-consciousness and spiritual struggle, and whose poems were published posthumously. His great sonnets of natural glory, as well as his later poetry of self-suspicion and despair, were claimed as “modern” when they were finally published in 1918, since his work had had only a very small or local Victorian audience. The course’s third movement will be a reading of Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, and Wilfrid Owen; we will then conclude with T. S. Eliot. We will take a pathway, then, from Tennyson’s In Memoriam (1850)

to Little Gidding (1942).

By beginning in the Victorian mid-century and journeying across the century mark into modern poetry, and, in Eliot, to one of the foremost critics and ideologues of modernism, and by studying Hopkins’s fate of Victorian obscurity followed by passionate, if posthumous, modern fame, the course tries to subvert the convenient opposition of Victorian/modern. This opposition had persistent vitality in both the academy and popular culture. Indeed, “Victorian” is still often taken to mean prudish, pious, and constrained, a thing of class and conformity. How utterly untrue! The erotic intensity of this poetry, its diverse sexualities, as well as its passional and devotional emphasis, can hardly be anticipated. Indeed, the Victorian visual arts provided enduring ideal figures for both men and women that remain ineradicable, exalted and alluring, whether for good or ill.

In our immediate acts of reading and rereading the poems, we will be guided by these concerns: the poet’s role in mediating/exposing a social order marked by repression and isolation; the relation between poetry and historical catastrophe (the terrible reality of war, for instance, is an abiding presence in many of these poems); the structuring modalities of lyric and elegy in a poetry of memory and mourning; and the embedding, the sedimentation of poetry in place, and place in poetry.

Readings:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

from The Collected Poems, including readings from In Memoriam (1850) Maud

(1855) and The Idylls of the King (1859-1888) and last poems.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Selected Poetry, from DG’s House of Life, and especially Christina’s “Goblin Market” with DG’s illustrations

Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Selected poems, including “My Last Duchess,” “Fra Lippo Lippi,” “’Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,’” “Andrea del Sarto,” “Love Among the Ruins,” “An Epistle . . . of Karshish,” “The Pope” from The Ring and the Book

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)

The Poems of Hopkins (1967, 1970)

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
The Collected Poems, including poems, especially, from the following books: Time's

Laughingstocks and Other Verses (1909), Satires of Circumstance (1911-1914), Moments of Vision (1917), Late Lyrics (1922), and Winter Words (1928).

Selections by Moodle or shorter edition
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)

Selected Poems and Four Plays (1962, 1996)

Wilfrid Owen (1893-1918)

Collected Poems (1965)

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (1963) from Selected Prose (1953)

Note: This reading list of principal works will be supplemented, throughout the term, by selections from essays both critical and theoretical, with an eye both to a new (freshly historicized) literary history of the two periods, as well as to significant challenges posed to received readings of the poems by new(er) theoretical models or approaches. One hopes to have an affordable text about Pre-Raphaelite art, with full color illustrations. If we can’t find a reasonable option, we’ll build up our own collection of images and graphic design from my library and from the web.

Course Requirements:

Class attendance, 2-3 shorter writing/reading exercises (1-2 pages), two longer essays (3-4, and final 5-7 pages).

*English 253a satisfies the “Introductory Emphasis” requirement for the Haverford English major.

English 214b T/Th. 8:30-10am
B. Parris HUII

Literary Theory: The Human

First and foremost, this course introduces students to literary theory through readings of philosophical, aesthetic and theoretical texts concerned with what literature is and how it works. Our readings will range from the classical tradition to the early modern period, and on to modern and contemporary approaches to recurrent concerns that herald the rise of “theory” as an interdisciplinary approach to the humanities and its modes of self-reflexive inquiry. The course is divided into three sections: Classical and Early Modern Thought; Post-Enlightenment World-asSymptom; and Formalism, Structuralism and their Aftermaths. Through readings, lectures and discussions, students will gain an understanding of the historical development of literary study and its disciplinary formation, as well as an appreciation for ongoing conversations about the status of “theory” and its role in literary and other humanistic fields of inquiry.

Over the course of the semester, a closely related topic that will help focus our investigation of these texts is their understanding of the human. Because philosophers, literary and cultural theorists concerned with literature are also ultimately concerned with its place in human life, their perspectives on literature entail certain assumptions, arguments, or claims about the human being – what it is, how it thinks, feels, speaks, reads, makes decisions and acts in ways that shape the course of its life and the lives of others. We’ll consider how various forms of power and influence, from structural economic relations to the unconscious to sexuality and gender, are felt in human life and show up in the stories we tell.

Readings by: Plato, Aristotle, Sidney, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Levi-Strauss, Derrida, Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, Cixous, Butler, Sedgwick.

English 232 b T/TH 2:30 – 4
J. Pryor HU II

Performance, Literature, and the Archive

Is literature an event or an archive? Are archives performances? Do performances leave a trace? How do we understand both literature and performance as citational (embedded in a history of representation) and performative (or making something happen in the present)? And what might we gain from thinking of history, literature, and performance as a set of interconnected practices—explicit, fugitive, iterative, transgressive, provocative, or banal— rather than as a set of meanings? This course examines the uses of performance theory for reading 19th, 20th, and 21st century American literature, performance art, and other modes of cultural production. We’ll draw from performance theory’s grappling with questions of embodiment, eventfulness, gesture, identity, presence, repetition, reproduction, script, and timing to ask what kind of relations these texts enact or make possible, and how they register but also transform the histories that haunt them. Particularly attention will be paid to the politics of identity--including race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and citizenship--with an explicit focus on the meaning of events and their aftereffects for marginalized subjects and among various cultures of trauma and resilience.

Selected Readings:

J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words Jacques Derrida, from Archive Fever

Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller”

Peggy Phelan, from Unmarked: the Politics of Performance Diana Taylor, from The Archive and the Repertoire Rebecca Schneider, from Performing Remains Carolyn Steedman, from Dust: The Archive and Cultural History Ann Cvetkovich, from An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures Marvin Carlson, from The Haunted Stage: Theater as Memory Machine Avery Gordon, from Ghostly Matters

Tavia N’yongo, “Race, Reenactment, and the ‘Natural-Born Citizen’”

Gertrude Stein, from The Making of Americans and Three Lives Samuel Delany, The Motion of Light in Water

Peggy Shaw, Must

Helen Molesworth, from Work Ethic

Requirements:

Active class participation One in-class presentation Two field-trips and two 2-3 page performance analyses Three 3-5 page papers One 10 page final paper in stages: close reading, annotated bibliography, outline, draft

English 227b W 1:30-4pm
B. Parris HU II

The Early Modern Period: Biopower from Marlowe to Milton

This course introduces students to early modern literature through a selection of major literary works from the period, with a conceptual focus on early modern biopower, biopolitics and sovereignty. We will work through a series of questions based on readings of early modern literature alongside contemporary theory and criticism: what is biopolitics, and how does it relate to biopower? How are both of these concepts bound up with the rise of various aspects of modern life – including capitalism, consent, individual liberty and universal human rights? Are there distinguishing features of an early modern biopolitics, and if so how is it entangled with political theology and the care of the self?

Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality introduced the concepts of “biopolitics” and “biopower” to fields of humanistic inquiry, altering our understanding of sovereign power as it mutated from the right to take life to an imperative to make live. Responses to Foucault’s work have since enlarged our understanding of the complex ways in which human life becomes an object of concern for state power as well as non-state based apparatuses of civil society and processes of “normalization.” A corresponding trend in early modern studies has emerged, reading works of sixteenth and seventeenth-century literature as biopolitical meditations on life, law, sovereignty and care. Students in this course will develop a foundation for studying early modern literature along such lines, as well as an understanding of the intellectual background to this approach in early modern literary studies. Our readings will include works of 16th and 17th-century poetry, prose and drama by Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and John Milton; foundational texts on biopower and biopolitics by Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben; and recent criticism and theory in early modern studies by Julia Lupton and Melissa Sanchez that attempts to synthesize these fields of study.

Readings will include:

Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: Introduction Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, and Dr. Faustus William Shakespeare, Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew John Milton, Comus, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes

English 274b TTH 2:30-4
Debora Sherman HU III

Modern Irish Literature

Language, that most innocent and spontaneous of common currencies, is in reality a terrain scarred, fissured and divided by the cataclysms of political history, strewn with the relics of imperialist, nationalist, regionalist and class combat.... Literature is an agent as well as effect of such struggles, a crucial mechanism by which the language and ideology of an imperialist class or region preserves and perpetuates at the ideological level an historical identity shattered or eroded at the political. It is also a zone in which such struggles achieve stabilization in which the contradictory political unity of imperial and indigenous, dominant and subordinate social classes is articulated and reproduced in the contradictory unity of a "common language" itself.
Terry Eagleton, Criticism and Ideology

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Stephen Dedalus in Joyce, Ulysses (1920) 2.377

This course is concerned with Modern Irish literature as the politically articulate inscription of complex and multiple intersections of history, class and culture. Indeed, Irish history locates the modern Irish state in the political fact of appropriation by the Tudor kings in the 1600's, from which ensues those complicated doublings -- English and Irish, Anglo-Irish and Celt, landowner and tenant, colonialist and colonized, "West Briton" and insurrectionist -- negotiated in that literature. We will want to consider that achievement of identity both in terms of its figurative expression, that is, what tropes or figures can be considered intrinsically Irish, albeit expressed in an/Other language, as well as for its inscription of the cultural and political in contested and engaged identities.

The course will have three principle foci: the emergence of an Irish literature written in English in the late 18th c. against the background of a late-flourishing Gaelic or Irish literature; the various nationalisms proposed and critiqued in Yeats, Synge, and Joyce; and latterly, modern and contemporary Irish poetry and prose for its various recursions to and departures from a postcolonial mind.

Texts:

Selections from Irish poetry in translation from the 17th & 18th centuries Swift: The Drapier's Letters, "A Modest Proposal" Edgeworth: Castle Rackrent Yeats: The Tower Synge: The Aran Islands; The Playboy of the Western World Joyce: "The Dead", Dubliners; Chapter 1: Ulysses Flann O'Brien: The Third Policeman Beckett: Endgame Seamus Heaney: Field Work Poetry of Kinsella, Grennan,, Mahon, Boland, and ni Dhomhnaill Brian Friel: Translations

Requirements: 2 essays (6-8 pp.) and a final exam

*This course fulfills the Social Justice requirement.

English 289b W/F 11:30-1
T. Devaney HU III

Contemporary Poetry

English 289b is an engaging excursion through contemporary American poetry from 1950 to 2014 (roughly from Allen Ginsberg to Claudia Rankine). Through close readings and the use of critical texts, the course will explore poetic practices and various verse structures in a suggestive, creative/critical spirit focusing on ways in which poets have undertaken the task of redefining poetry in relation to culture, history, politics, music, sound, the body, and language itself. Among the movements we will explore the Beats, Projective Verse, the New American Poetry of the 1960s, the New York School, the Black Arts Movement, and Language Poetry.

Requirements:

Brief response assignments; one short critical essay (5-7 pp.); one longer critical essay (12-15 pp.). Desire to engage in an extended meditation about a spectrum of poets, texts, and conceptual issues. Close reading and close listening coupled with participation in engaged conversation.

English 292b F 1:30-4
T. Devaney HU III

Advanced Poetry Writing

English 292 is a creative writing workshop on poetry. The focus is on student work. The workshop involves both reading and writing poetry. Students will have the opportunity to expand their repertoire by modeling their pieces on the work of various poets including: Wallace Stevens, Claudia Rankine, James Wright, Evie Shockley, Mary Ruefle. We will analyze selected poems by these artists to investigate issues of form, urgency, and lyricism to enhance our own work. Over the semester the class will work on a collaborative poetry project.

Requirements:

Students will write two poems a week (using a modeling method) and respond to the selected readings. A final portfolio of revised work is required. The last third of the class will focus on revision and on the student portfolio.

This course has a limited enrollment of 15 students.

English 294B W 1:30-4
Solomon HU II

Advanced Fiction Workshop

Students in the Advanced Fiction Workshop will not only continue to hone the basic elements of their fiction, including character development, dialogue, plot and prose style, but will focus much of their efforts on revision and the process of "finishing" a story. Other central themes of the course will be finding a form for the story you want to write and developing a distinctive voice. We will immerse ourselves in collections of short fiction, and work that lurks at the boundaries of novel and novella.

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    Edward Thomas: A Checklist © Jeff Cooper EDWARD THOMAS Towards a Complete Checklist Of His Published Writings Compiled by Jeff Cooper First published in Great Britain in 2004 by White Sheep Press Second edition published on-line in 2013; third edition, 2017 © 2013, 2017 Jeff Cooper All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied or reproduced for publication or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise stored in a retrieval system, without the prior permission of the copyright owner and the publishers. The rights of Jeff Cooper to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Preface This is the third edition, with some additions and amendments (and a complete re-numbering), of the edition originally published in 2004 under Richard Emeny’s name, with myself as the editor. The interest in Edward Thomas’s poetry and prose writings has grown considerably over the past few years, and this is an opportune moment to make the whole checklist freely available and accessible. The intention of the list is to provide those with an interest in Thomas with the tools to understand his enormous contribution to criticism as well as poetry. This is very much a work in progress. I can’t say that I have produced a complete or wholly accurate list, and any amendments or additions would be gratefully received by sending them to me at [email protected]. They will be incorporated in the list and acknowledged.
  • James S. Jaffe Rare Books

    James S. Jaffe Rare Books

    JAMES S. JAFFE RARE BOOKS WINTER 2007 JAMES S. JAFFE RARE BOOKS LLC 790 Madison Avenue, Suite 605 (Madison Avenue at 67th Street) New York, New York 10021 Telephone: 212-988-8042 Mobile: 610-637-3531 Fax: 212-988-8044 Email: [email protected] Rare Books &**Manuscripts * Literature* *Poetry*** * James S. Jaffe *New York* JAMES S. JAFFE RARE BOOKS LLC 1 ALDINGTON, Richard. Death of a Hero. 2 vols., 3 790 Madison Avenue, Suite 605 4to, original paper wrappers, glassine outer wrappers, in publish- (Madison Avenue at 67th Street) er’s matching marbled paper chemise and slipcase. Paris: Henri New York, New York 10021 Babou and Jack Kahane, 1930. First unexpurgated edition. Limited Telephone: 212-988-8042 Mobile: 610-637-3531 to 300 numbered copies (the entire edition). The authoritative text Fax: 212-988-8044 of Aldington’s World War I novel, restoring the expurgations Email: [email protected] made to the previously published British and American trade edi- rare books & manuscripts · livres d’artistes tions, which were both bowdlerized owing to obscenity laws, al- prints & photographs · archives & appraisals though the American text was less sanitized than the British. Ker- shaw 56. Slipcase slightly bumped, with a bit of edge-wear, other- wise a fine copy. $1250.00 All items are offered subject to prior sale. All books and manuscripts have been carefully described; however, any 2 [ARCHITECTURE]. WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. item is understood to be sent on approval and may be returned within seven An Autobiography. Tall square 8vo, illustrated, original black days of receipt for any reason provided prior notification has been given.
  • Galb2001.Pdf

    Galb2001.Pdf

    the essential Galbraith k John Kenneth Galbraith selected and edited by Andrea D. Williams A Mariner Original houghton mifflin company boston • new york 2001 books by john kenneth galbraith [a partial listing] American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power The Great Crash, 1929 The Affluent Society The Scotch The New Industrial State The Triumph Ambassador’s Journal Economics, Peace and Laughter Economics and the Public Purpose Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went The Age of Uncertainty Annals of an Abiding Liberal A Life in Our Times The Anatomy of Power A View from the Stands Economics in Perspective: A Critical History A Tenured Professor The Culture of Contentment A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View A Short History of Financial Euphoria The Good Society: The Humane Agenda Name-Dropping: From F.D.R. On The Essential Galbraith contents Preface vii Introduction ix Countervailing Power 1 from American Capitalism The Concept of the Conventional Wisdom 18 from The Affluent Society The Myth of Consumer Sovereignty 31 from The Affluent Society The Case for Social Balance 40 from The Affluent Society The Imperatives of Technology 55 from The New Industrial State The Technostructure 66 from The New Industrial State The General Theory of Motivation 79 from The New Industrial State Economics and the Quality of Life 90 from Economics, Peace and Laughter vi C0ntents The Proper Purpose of Economic Development 109 from Economics, Peace and Laughter The Valid Image of the Modern Economy 118 from Annals of an Abiding Liberal Power
  • T. E. Lawrence Papers: Finding Aid

    T. E. Lawrence Papers: Finding Aid

    http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8bg2tr0 No online items T. E. Lawrence Papers: Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Gayle M. Richardson, April 30, 2009. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2129 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org © 2009 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved. T. E. Lawrence Papers: Finding mssTEL 1-1277 1 Aid Overview of the Collection Title: T. E. Lawrence Papers Dates (inclusive): 1894-2006 Bulk dates: 1911-2000 Collection Number: mssTEL 1-1277 Creator: Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935. Extent: 8,707 pieces. 86 boxes. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2129 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org Abstract: The collection consists of papers concerning British soldier and author T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935) including manuscripts (by and about Lawrence), correspondence (including over 150 letters by Lawrence), photographs, drawings, reproductions and ephemera. Also included in the collection is research material of various Lawrence collectors and scholars. Language: English. Access Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services. Boxes 82-86 -- Coin & Fine Art, Manuscript & Rare Book Dealers. Restricted to staff use only. These boxes include provenance, price and sale information; please see Container List for an item-level list of contents. Publication Rights All photocopies, for which the Huntington does not own the original manuscript, may not be copied in any way, as noted in the Container List and on the folders.
  • Aghoreshwar Bhagawan Ram and the Aghor Tradition

    Aghoreshwar Bhagawan Ram and the Aghor Tradition

    Syracuse University SURFACE Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Anthropology - Dissertations Affairs 12-2011 Aghoreshwar Bhagawan Ram and the Aghor Tradition Jishnu Shankar Syracuse University Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/ant_etd Part of the Archaeological Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Shankar, Jishnu, "Aghoreshwar Bhagawan Ram and the Aghor Tradition" (2011). Anthropology - Dissertations. 93. https://surface.syr.edu/ant_etd/93 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in Anthropology - Dissertations by an authorized administrator of SURFACE. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Abstract Aghoreshwar Mahaprabhu Baba Bhagawan Ram Ji, a well-established saint of the holy city of Varanasi in north India, initiated many changes into the erstwhile Aghor tradition of ascetics in India. This tradition is regarded as an ancient system of spiritual or mystical knowledge by its practitioners and at least some of the practices followed in this tradition can certainly be traced back at least to the time of the Buddha. Over the course of the centuries practitioners of this tradition have interacted with groups of other mystical traditions, exchanging ideas and practices so that both parties in the exchange appear to have been influenced by the other. Naturally, such an interaction between groups can lead to difficulty in determining a clear course of development of the tradition. In this dissertation I bring together micro-history, hagiography, folklore, religious and comparative studies together in an attempt to understand how this modern day religious-spiritual tradition has been shaped by the past and the role religion has to play in modern life, if only with reference to a single case study.