Course Notes

[Lawrence Ferlinghetti outside City Lights Bookstore]

Semester 2 Timetable

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 Kathy Acker: The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1975) - withdrawn from sale in Britain [accused of plagiarising Harold Robbins' The Pirate (1974)]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%)