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Banned Books




Administration:


[Clovis Trouille: La Voyeuse]



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Novels:




Sessions:


[Laurentius de Voltolina: The Lecturer (c.1350)]


  1. Introduction
    • Lecture: Why Ban Books?
    • Workshop: Areopagitica (1644)
      • Exercise: Test Case - The Golden Ass

  2. James Joyce: Ulysses (1922)
    • Lecture: The Muses of Fiction
    • Workshop: Civilisation and its Discontents (1930)
      • Exercise: The Bloomsday Game

  3. Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness (1928)
    • Lecture: Plot
    • Workshop: The Second Sex (1949)
      • Exercise: Spot the Lesbian Sex-Scene

  4. D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
    • Lecture: Character
    • Workshop: John Thomas and Lady Jane (1954)
      • Exercise: Comparing Connies

  5. Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer (1934)
    • Lecture: Setting
    • Workshop: Inside the Whale (1940)
      • Exercise: Where is Francis?

  6. Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (1940)
    • Lecture: Time
    • Workshop: The Lawless Roads (1939)
      • Exercise: Paradoxes of the Faith

  7. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (1955)
    • Lecture: Point of view
    • Workshop: Seduction of the Innocent (1954)
      • Exercise: Pornography or Moral Tract?

  8. Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (1957)
    • Lecture: Detail
    • Workshop: We Never Make Mistakes (1963)
      • Exercise: Who is Lara?

  9. William Burroughs: Naked Lunch (1959)
    • Lecture: Structure
    • Workshop: Interzone (1989)
      • Exercise: DIY Cut-ups

  10. Kathy Acker: The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1975)
    • Lecture: Style
    • Workshop: The Pirate (1974)
      • Exercise: Spot the Piracy

  11. Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses (1988)
    • Lecture: Theme
    • Workshop: The Jewel in the Crown (1966 / 1984)
      • Exercise: How Many People Can You Offend in One Lifetime?

  12. Conclusion
    • Lecture: Pornotopia
    • Workshop: A Cyborg Manifesto (1985)
      • Exercise: Design Your Own Utopia



Friday

Course Notes


Day by day:

Week

Dates

BANNED BOOKS

CRISIS DIARIES

MA: 797 [RADIAL]

Stage 2: 666 [CITY]

Assignments Due

Radial / City


Lecture:

Mon 3-4

Lecture:

Wed 12-1

Workshop: Wed 1-3

Workshop: Thurs 1-3

797 / 666

R1 / C–

14-18/7


Questions of Genre

Fellow Travellers


Seminars (20%)

R2 / C1

21-25/7

Why Ban Books?

Lady Daibu

Tale of the Heike

Areopagitica

Seminars (20%)

R3 / C2

28/7-1/8

James Joyce

Daniel Defoe

The Plague

Civilization & Its Discontents


R4 / C3

4-8/8

Radclyffe Hall

Mary Chesnut

Diary from Dixie

The Second Sex


R5 / C4

11-15/8

D. H. Lawrence

Alice James

Alice in Bed

John Thomas & Lady Jane


R6 / C5

18-22/8

Henry Miller

Douglas Mawson

The Home of the Blizzard

Inside the Whale

Creative Response (20%)

R- / C6

25-29/8

Graham Greene



The Lawless Roads


R- / C-

1-5/9


MIDSEMESTER

BREAK



R7 / C-

8-12/9


Nijinsky

Diary of a Madman



R8 / C7

15-19/9

Vladimir Nabokov

Jean Cocteau

Diary of a Drug Fiend

Seduction of the Innocent

Essay (20%)

R9 / C8

22-26/9

Boris Pasternak

Arthur Koestler

Spanish Testament

Never Make Mistakes


R10 / C9

29/9-3/10

William Burroughs

Lydia Ginzburg

The 900 Days

Interzone


R11 / C10

6-10/10

Kathy Acker

Denton Welch

Voice through a Cloud

The Pirate


R12 / C11

13-17/10

Salman Rushdie

Conclusion: Prison Notes

Contemporary Extremities

The Jewel in the Crown


R- / C12

20-24/10

Conclusion: Pornotopia



Cyborg Manifesto


R- / C-

27-31/10





Journal (30%)/

Essay (30%)

R- / C-

3-7/11





Exam (60%)



Two courses:

Banned Books (stage 2: 666)

Sessions:
  1. Introduction - John Milton: Areopagitica (1644)
  2. James Joyce: Ulysses (1922) - banned in Britain and America [moral censorship]
  3. Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness (1928) - banned in Britain [moral censorship]
  4. D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) - banned in Britain and America [moral censorship]
  5. Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer (1934) - banned in Britain and America [moral censorship]
  6. Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (1940) - censured by the Vatican [religious censorship]
  7. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (1955) - banned in Britain [moral censorship]
  8. Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (1957) - banned in the USSR [political censorship]
  9. William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch (1959) - banned in Britain and America [moral censorship]
  10. Kathy Acker: The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1975) - withdrawn from sale in Britain [accused of plagiarising Harold Robbins' The Pirate (1974)]
  11. Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses (1988) - banned in most of the Islamic world [religious censorship]
  12. Conclusion - Rick Poynor: Pornotopia (2006)

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Crisis Diaries (MA: 797)

Sessions:
  1. Introduction - Donald Keene: Travelers of a Hundred Ages (1989)
  2. Lady Daibu (c.1157-1235): Poetic Memoirs (written c.1174-1232 / edited c.1260 / translated 1980)
  3. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731): A Journal of the Plague Year (written (ostensibly) 1665 / published 1722)
  4. Mary Chesnut (1823-1886): Mary Chesnut's Civil War (written (ostensibly) 1861-65 / edited 1880s / published 1905 / complete edition 1981)
  5. Alice James (1848-1892): Diary (written 1889-92 / expurgated 1934 / complete edition 1964)
  6. Douglas Mawson (1882-1958): Antarctic Diaries (written 1911-14 / published 1915 / complete edition 1988)
  7. Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950): Diary (written 1919 / published 1936 / complete edition 1999)
  8. Jean Cocteau (1889-1963): Opium: The Diary of a Cure (written 1929 / published 1930 / translated 1958)
  9. Lydia Ginzburg (1902-1990): Blockade Diary (written 1941-44 / published 1984 / translated 1995)
  10. Arthur Koestler (1905-1983): Dialogue with Death (written & published 1937 / expurgated 1942 / re-edited 1966)
  11. Denton Welch (1915-1948): Journals (written 1942-48 / published 1952 / complete edition 1984)
  12. Conclusion - Kurt Cobain: Journals (2002) &c.

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Course by course:

Week

Dates

CRISIS DIARIES

MA: 797 [RADIAL]

BANNED BOOKS

Stage 2: 666 [CITY]

Assignments Due

Radial / City


Lecture:

Wed 12-1

Workshop: Wed 1-3

Lecture: Mon 3-4

Workshop: Thurs 1-3

797 / 666

R1 / C-

14-18/7

Questions of Genre

Fellow Travellers



Seminars (20%)

R2 / C1

21-25/7

Lady Daibu

Tale of the Heike

Why Ban Books?

Areopagitica

Seminars (20%)

R3 / C2

28/7-1/8

Daniel Defoe

The Plague

James Joyce

Civilization & Its Discontents


R4 / C3

4-8/8

Mary Chesnut

A Diary from Dixie

Radclyffe Hall

The Second Sex


R5 / C4

11-15/8

Alice James

Alice in Bed

D. H. Lawrence

John Thomas & Lady Jane


R6 / C5

18-22/8

Douglas Mawson

The Home of the Blizzard

Henry Miller

Inside the Whale

Creative Response (20%)

R- / C6

25-29/8



Graham Greene

The Lawless Roads


R- / C-

1-5/9


MIDSEMESTER

BREAK



R7 / C-

8-12/9

Vaslav Nijinsky

Diary of a Madman




R8 / C7

15-19/9

Jean Cocteau

Diary of a Drug Fiend

Vladimir Nabokov

Seduction of the Innocent

Essay (20%)

R9 / C8

22-26/9

Arthur Koestler

Spanish Testament

Boris Pasternak

We Never Make Mistakes


R10 / C9

29/9-3/10

Lydia Ginzburg

The 900 Days

William Burroughs

Interzone


R11 / C10

6-10/10

Denton Welch

Voice through a Cloud

Kathy Acker

The Pirate



R12 / C11

13-17/10

Prison Notes

Contemporary Extremities

Salman Rushdie

The Jewel in the Crown


R- / C12

20-24/10



Pornotopia

Cyborg Manifesto


R- / C-

27-31/10





Journal (30%) / Research Essay (30%)

R- / C-

3-7/11





Exam (60%)