This document outlines the topics and readings for an American literature seminar during the spring semester of 2011, including works by Poe, Melville, Faulkner, Stevens, Williams, Salinger, Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Williams. It also reserves two additional seminar dates for undecided topics.
The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906: Reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall
This document outlines the topics and readings for an American literature seminar during the spring semester of 2011, including works by Poe, Melville, Faulkner, Stevens, Williams, Salinger, Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Williams. It also reserves two additional seminar dates for undecided topics.
This document outlines the topics and readings for an American literature seminar during the spring semester of 2011, including works by Poe, Melville, Faulkner, Stevens, Williams, Salinger, Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Williams. It also reserves two additional seminar dates for undecided topics.
This document outlines the topics and readings for an American literature seminar during the spring semester of 2011, including works by Poe, Melville, Faulkner, Stevens, Williams, Salinger, Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Williams. It also reserves two additional seminar dates for undecided topics.
1. E. A. Poe, The philosophy of composition, The raven
2. Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapters: I. Loomings, IX. The sermon, XXVII. Ahab, XXXV. The quarter-deck, XL. The white whale, XLI. The whiteness of the whale, CXXXI. The symphony 3. William Faulkner, As I lay dying 4. Wallace Stevens, The man with the blue guitar; William Carlos Williams, The descent 5. J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey 6. Allen Ginsberg, Howl; Jack Kerouac, On the road. 7. Tennessee Williams, The glass menagerie 8. Extra seminar 1, topic to be decided. 9. Extra seminar 2, topic to be decided.
The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906: Reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall