Introductions
Wed, Jan 17
Screen On the Waterfront in 108 VPCH
Thu, Jan 18
Discuss On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront filmography
Optional reading:
"Elia Kazan and the Case for
Silence"
Sun, Jan 21
PennMOO
session in the virtual Van Pelt House, 11 PM to midnight
Tue, Jan 23
Stephen Crane, "An Experiment in Misery"**
Background notes on "Experiment
in Misery," including the original opening as it appeared
in the New York Press, April 22, 1894
"Sleep-Out Group Walks in Shoes Of the
Homeless"
Optional reading:
Government
Resources on Homelessness
Crane
biography
Crane bibiography
"On Linguistic
Presumptuousness in Crane" (Jan. 1996)
Thu, Jan 25
Stephen Crane, "An Experiment in Misery"
Tue, Jan 30
Nadine Gordimer, "Which New Era Would That
Be?"**
Nadine Gordimer, "Africa Emergent"
Optional reading:
Gordimer bibliography
Thu, Feb 01
Nadine Gordimer, "Which New Era Would That Be?"
Tue, Feb 06
Saul Bellow, "Looking for Mr. Green"** (paper)
Optional reading:
Brief Bellow bio
Links to info about Bellow's works
Tue, Feb 06
We lead discussion for all Van Pelt House on "Community & Race" 9 PM
Piano Lounge
Thu, Feb 08
Saul Bellow, "Looking for Mr. Green"
Sun, Feb 11
Screen Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing in 108 VPCH
Tue, Feb 13
Discuss Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
Quotations appearing at the end of Do
the Right Thing
Epilogue to Do the Right
Thing, by Spike Lee
Spike Lee filmography
Thu, Feb 15
Discuss Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
Tue, Feb 20
James Alan McPherson, "A Loaf of Bread"**
Optional:
Ask Professor Herman
Beavers, an expert on McPherson, what he thinks.
Thu, Feb 22
James
Alan McPherson, "A Loaf of Bread"
Tue, Feb 27
Leigh Allison Wilson, "Obscene Callers"**
Thu, Feb 29
Leigh Allison Wilson, "Masse"** (paper)
Tue, Mar 05
Grace Paley, stories in The Little Disturbances of
Man** (book)
"An Interest in Life" (pp. 79-103)
Thu, Mar 07
No class
Spring Break
Tue, Mar 19
Grace Paley, stories in The Little Disturbances of
Man
"The Contest" (pp. 65-78)
"The Used-Boy Raisers" (pp. 127-134)
"A Subject of Childhood" (pp. 135-146)
Thu, Mar 21
Grace Paley, stories in The Little Disturbances of
Man (continue to discuss 3 stories assigned for Tues.)
Mar 26
Joan Didion, "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream"** (paper)
(from the book Slouching
toward Bethlehem)
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, "Only
Disconnect"
Joan Didion, excerpt from "The Women's
Movement"
Maureen McHugh's brief page introducing
Didion
Mar 28
Joan Didion, "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream"
Sun, Mar 31
Screen Rebel without a Cause in 108 VPCH
Tue, Apr 02
Discuss Rebel without a Cause
Thu, Apr 04
John Cheever, "Goodbye,
My Brother"**
Tue, Apr 09
Mary McCarthy, "The Appalachian Revolution"** (paper)
Wed, Apr 10
Screen Twelve
Angry Men in 108 VPCH
Thu, Apr 11
Discuss Twelve
Angry Men
Tue, Apr 16
Samuel Yellen, "The Mystic
Presences"**
Thu, Apr 18
Gerald Graff, Beyond the Culture Wars (pp. 3-52;
105-170)** (book)
Sample position paper on
Graff
Optional reading:
A. Filreis's essay on
Graff in special relation to the Cold War
Bringing
the network home
The End of the Lecture as We Know It
Tue, Apr 23
Gerald Graff, Beyond the Culture Wars
Max Page, "What Have We Learned?"
(DP guest column, Dec. 8, 1995)
Wed, Apr 24
Screen Berkeley in the Sixties in 108 VPCH
Thu, Apr 25
Final words
Personalized/customized "final" exams
Web projects due