Timetable

[GPS Magazine]

Semester Two
[21st July-25th October]

Week 1

Mon (21/7) - 3-4 pm, Lecture 1
Introduction: Why Ban Books?

Anthology Texts:

• John Milton: Areopagitica (1644)
• The Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act (1993)

Thurs (24/7)- 1-3 pm, Workshop 1: Areopagitica
[Group assignments]

Week 2

Mon (28/7): 3-4 pm, Lecture 2
James Joyce: Ulysses (1922) - The Muses of Fiction

Anthology Texts:

• James Joyce: from Ulysses (1922)
• Sigmund Freud: from Civilisation and Its Discontents (1930)
• Sigmund Freud, ed.: A Young Girl's Diary (1919)

Thurs (31/7): 1-3 pm, Workshop 2: Civilisation and Its Discontents
[Group 1: First seminar]

Week 3

Mon (4/8) - 3-4 pm, Lecture 3
Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness (1928) - Plot

Anthology Texts:

• Radclyffe Hall: from The Well of Loneliness (1928)
• Simone de Beauvoir: from The Second Sex (1949)

Thurs (7/8) - 1-3 pm, Workshop 3: The Second Sex
[Group 2: First seminar]

Week 4

Mon (11/8) - 3-4 pm, Lecture 4
D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) - Character

Anthology Texts:

• D. H. Lawrence: from Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
• D. H. Lawrence: from The First Lady Chatterley (1944)
• D. H. Lawrence: from John Thomas and Lady Jane (1972)

Thurs (14/8) - 1-3 pm, Workshop 4: John Thomas and Lady Jane
[Group 3: First seminar]

Week 5

Mon (18/8) - 3-4 pm, Lecture 5
Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Setting

Anthology Texts:

• Henry Miller: from Tropic of Cancer (1934)
• George Orwell: from Inside the Whale (1940)

Thurs (21/8) - 1-3 pm, Workshop 5: Inside the Whale
[Group 4: First seminar]

Week 6

Mon (25/8) - 3-4 pm, Lecture 6
Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (1940) - Time

Anthology Texts:

• Graham Greene: from The Power and the Glory (1940)
• Graham Greene: from The Lawless Roads (1939)

Thurs (28/8) - 1-3 pm, Workshop 6: The Lawless Roads
[Group 5: First seminar]

Mid-Semester Break (1st-12th September)

Week 7

Mon (15/9) - 3-4 pm, Lecture 7
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita - Point-of-view

Anthology Texts:

• Vladimir Nabokov: from Lolita (1955)
• Vladimir Nabokov: from The Enchanter (1939 / 1985)
• Dr Frederick Wertham: from Seduction of the Innocent (1954)

Thurs (18/9) - 1-3 pm, Workshop 7: Seduction of the Innocent
[Group 1: Second seminar]

Assignment 2: Essay due in

Week 8

Mon (22/9) - 3-4 pm, Lecture 8
Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (1957) - Detail

Anthology Texts:

• Boris Pasternak: from Doctor Zhivago (1957)
• Olga Ivinskaya: from A Captive of Time (1978)
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: "An Incident at Krechetovka Station," from We Never Make Mistakes (1963)

Thurs (25/9) - 1-3 pm, Workshop 8: We Never Make Mistakes
[Group 2: Second seminar]

Week 9

Mon (29/9) - 3-4 pm, Lecture 9
William Burroughs: Naked Lunch (1959) – Structure

Anthology Texts:

• William S. Burroughs: from Naked Lunch (1959)
• William S. Burroughs: from Interzone (1989)

Thurs (2/10) - 1-3 pm, Workshop 9: Interzone
[Group 3: Second seminar]

Week 10

Mon (6/10) - 3-4 pm, Lecture 10
Kathy Acker: The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1978) - Style

Anthology Texts:

• Kathy Acker: from The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1975)
• Kathy Acker: from Blood and Guts in High School (1978)
• Harold Robbins: from The Pirate (1974)

Thurs (9/10) - 1-3 pm, Workshop 10: The Pirate
[Group 4: Second seminar]

Week 11

Mon (13/10) - 3-4 pm, Lecture 11
Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses (1988) - Theme

Anthology Texts:

• Salman Rushdie: from The Satanic Verses (1988)
• Salman Rushdie: from Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990)
• Paul Scott: from The Jewel in the Crown (1966 / 1984)

Thurs (16/10) - 1-3 pm, Workshop 11: The Jewel in the Crown
[Group 5: Second seminar]

Week 12

Mon (20/10) - 3-4 pm, Lecture 12
Conclusion: Pornotopia

Anthology Texts:

• Rick Poynor: from Designing Pornotopia: Travels in Visual Culture (2006)
• Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto (1985)

Thurs (23/10) - 1-3 pm, Workshop 12: A Cyborg Manifesto

Labour Day (27th October)

[100 Banned Books]