Faculty
Eugene Cunnar
Professor Emeritus
Email:
ecunnar@nmsu.edu
Office Address:
New Mexico State University
Department of English
P.O. Box 30001, MSC 3E
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Phone:
(575) 646-4816
Fax:
(575) 646-7725
Biographical Statement
I received my B.A. in English literature with a minor in philosophy from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1963 and an M.A. degree in English literature from the same institution in 1967. I received my Ph.D. in English literature with a minor in Latin language and literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973.
Research Interests
I am interested in all aspects of early modern English literature, Latin literature, and art history. In addition, I am seriously interested in Mimbres culture.
Courses Commonly Taught
- ENGL 244G: Literature and Culture
- ENGL 261: Masterpieces of Western European Literature, Beginnings to the Renaissance
- ENGL 271: Survey of English Literature I
- ENGL 328: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
- ENGL 401/501: Women & Men Writers of the Seventeenth Century
- ENGL 401/501: Seventeenth-Century Literature
- ENGL 407/507: Milton
Publications
Co-editor, Discovering and (Re)Covering the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (forthcoming from Duquesne University Press).
Co-editor, Major Women Writers in Seventeenth-Century England. University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Co-editor, Philip J. Gallagher, "Thus they Relate, Erring": Milton, the Bible, and Misogyny. University of Missouri Press, 1990.
"Crashaw's Ritual, Liminal, and Visual Wounds," in New Perspectives on the Seventeenth-Century English Religious Lyric, ed. John R. Roberts. Univ. of Missouri Press, 1993.
"(En)gendering Architectural Poetics in Jonson's Masque of Queens. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 4 (1993): 145-60.
"Wyatt's Riddling Lute and the Feminine Other: ‘Break not them so wrongfully,'" Cithara 32 (1993): 3-30.
"An Collins," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. M. Thomas Hester. Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1993.
"Framing Seventeenth-Century Poetics: Liturgical Frames and Perspectives," in Perspective as a Problem in Art, History and Literature of Early Modern England, eds. S. K. Heninger, Jr. and Mark Lussier. Mellen Press, 1992.
"The Male Myth of A Sexual Golden Age in Seventeenth-Century Poetry," in Discourses of Desire: Sexuality in Renaissance Non-Dramatic Literature, eds. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth. University of Missouri Press, 1992.
"Opening the Religious Lyric: Crashaw's Ritual, Visual, and Liminal Wounds," in New Perspectives on the Renaissance Religious Lyric, ed. John R. Roberts. Univ. of Missouri Press, 1992.
"Names on Trees, the Hermaphrodite, and ‘The Garden,'" in On the Celebrated and Neglected Poems of Andrew Marvell, ed. Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers. Univ. of Missouri Press, 1992.
"The Viewer's Share: Three Sectarian Readings of Vermeer's Woman with a Balance," Exemplaria2 (1990): 501-36.
"'Bye, bye Miss American Pie': Don McLean and the Elegiac Tradition, or, Lycidas Redivius, The Popular Culture Journal 2 (1990): 29-36.
"Thomas Cole's Painterly Reading of Miton's ‘L'Allegro' and ‘Il Penseroso,'" Milton Quarterly 24 (1990): 85-98.
"Illusion and Spiritual Perception in Donne's Poetry," in Aesthetic Illusion: Theoretical and Historical Approaches, eds. Frederick Burwick and Walter Pape. De Gruyter, 1990.
"Crashaw's Sancta Maria Dolorum: Controversy and Coherence," New Perspectives on the Life and Art of Richard Crashaw, ed. John R. Roberts. Univ. of Missouri Press, 1990.
"Donne's Witty Theory of Atonement in ‘The Baite,'" SEL 29 (1989): 77-98.
"Jerome Nadal and Francisco Pacheco: A Print and a Verbal Source for Zrbaran's Circumcision," Boletin del Museo e Instituto Camon Aznar 25 (1988): 5-12.
"Milton, The Shepherd of Hermas, and the Writing of a Puritan Masque," Milton Studies 23 (1987): 33-52.
"Typological Rhyme in a Sequence by Adam of St. Victor," Studies in Philology 84 (1987): 394-417.
"Ut Pictura Poesis: An Opening in ‘The Windows,'" in "Like Season'd Timber": New Essays on George Herbert, eds. Edmund Miller and Robert DiYanni. Peter Lang, 1987.
"Crashaw's Bulla: A Baroque and Paradoxical Mirror Image of Religious Poetics," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 15 (1985): 183-210.
"God's ‘Golden Scales': Mercy and Justice in Paradise Lost, ELN 21 (1984): 13-20. "Milton's ‘Two-Handed Engine': The Visionary Iconography of Christus in Statera," Milton Quarterly 16 (1983): 29-38.
"Crashaw's Hymn To the Name Above Every Name: Background and Meaning," in Essays on Richard Crashaw, ed. Robert M. Cooper. Humanities Press, 1979.
"Donne's Valediction: forbidding Mourning and the Golden Compasses of Alchemical Creation," in Literature and the Occult, ed. Luanne Frank. Univ. of Texas at Arlington Press, 1977.
Works In Progress
Commentary on the Songs and Sonnets for the Variorum Edition of John Donne's Poetry being published by Indiana Univ. Press).
Richard Crashaw: The Making of a Baroque and Ritual Poet (book in progress).
"'Give me a Stile that nature frames, not Art': Margaret Cavendish Rewriting the Patriarchal Aesthetics of Ovid, Jonson, and Herrick."
"The Golden Eagle: A Restoration Fiction of Alchemical and Political Transformation."
Professional
Executive Director, John Donne Society, 1986-present.
Executive Council, Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 1992-present.
Executive Committee, Milton Society of America, 1987-89.
Executive Board, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, 1983-86.
Aliena vitia in oculis habemus, a tergo nostra sunt.
Minä olen viimeinen runo
ennen kirjoitustaidon lakkaamista:
anflangeillani pyhitään persettä,
palataan keskustelemaan
…(runoudesta)…
Harva laatijani kollegoista
ei ansaitse idiootin nimitystä.
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Rabelais, Diderot—vai Kallas, kukaties?
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ennen kirjojen keräilemistä,
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sinulle, runoilijani,
tulee kanssani vielä hauskoja hetkiä!
Näin viekastelimme toisiimme.
Siis kaadahan meille molemmille
Sitä viiniä! Mitä?Kaikkein halvinta!
Etpä taida paljon kunnioittaa ruoutta!
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Vaikka minähän se lasit tyhjennän.
Et kai toissasi kuvitellut
Että aukeaisin niin vähällä?
Kas niin,
katsokoon nyt elämä
Meidä silmilläsi lämpimiski.
Pankoon viini elämämme
Pihkaantumaan meihin:
Täydellinen taito on runon ydin,
Eikä sitä saa kuin elämällä.
Joku tomppeli tuli kuuluisaksi
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On elämöidä. Aika aikaa kutakin.
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Samalle riville kumpikin.
Minä synnyin sen kädestä
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Tunnetko hänen yksinäisyytensä
Kun illan pimeys on laskeutuunut,
Ulkona sataa jan hän puhuu
Rakkaudellen meidä lävitsemme?
Minä olen viimeinen runo
Ennen kirjoitustaidon lakkaamista,
Painavimman tyhjyyden hetki.
Joka luuli minua ja kaltaisiani
Huonoiski, kun emme pihtailleet:
Säkeet niin luonnolliset
Kuin niitä ei olisi.