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 |
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| R4 / C3 | 4-8/8 | Radclyffe Hall | Mary Chesnut | Diary from Dixie | The Second Sex |
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| R5 / C4 | 11-15/8 | D. H. Lawrence | Alice James | Alice in Bed | John Thomas & Lady Jane |
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| 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 |
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| The Lawless Roads |
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| R- / C- | 1-5/9 |
| MIDSEMESTER | BREAK |
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| R7 / C- | 8-12/9 |
| Nijinsky | Diary of a Madman |
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| 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 |
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| R10 / C9 | 29/9-3/10 | William Burroughs | Lydia Ginzburg | The 900 Days | Interzone |
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| R11 / C10 | 6-10/10 | Kathy Acker | Denton Welch | Voice through a Cloud | The Pirate |
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| R12 / C11 | 13-17/10 | Salman Rushdie | Conclusion: Prison Notes | Contemporary Extremities | The Jewel in the Crown |
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| R- / C12 | 20-24/10 | Conclusion: Pornotopia |
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| Cyborg Manifesto |
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| R- / C- | 27-31/10 |
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| Journal (30%)/ Essay (30%) |
| R- / C- | 3-7/11 |
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| Exam (60%) |
Two courses:
Sessions:
- Introduction - John Milton: Areopagitica (1644)
- James Joyce: Ulysses (1922) - banned in Britain and America [moral censorship]
- Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness (1928) - banned in Britain [moral censorship]
- D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) - banned in Britain and America [moral censorship]
- Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer (1934) - banned in Britain and America [moral censorship]
- Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (1940) - censured by the Vatican [religious censorship]
- Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (1955) - banned in Britain [moral censorship]
- Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (1957) - banned in the USSR [political censorship]
- William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch (1959) - banned in Britain and America [moral censorship]
- Kathy Acker: The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1975) - withdrawn from sale in Britain [accused of plagiarising Harold Robbins' The Pirate (1974)]
- Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses (1988) - banned in most of the Islamic world [religious censorship]
- Conclusion - Rick Poynor: Pornotopia (2006)
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Sessions:
- Introduction - Donald Keene: Travelers of a Hundred Ages (1989)
- Lady Daibu (c.1157-1235): Poetic Memoirs (written c.1174-1232 / edited c.1260 / translated 1980)
- Daniel Defoe (1660-1731): A Journal of the Plague Year (written (ostensibly) 1665 / published 1722)
- Mary Chesnut (1823-1886): Mary Chesnut's Civil War (written (ostensibly) 1861-65 / edited 1880s / published 1905 / complete edition 1981)
- Alice James (1848-1892): Diary (written 1889-92 / expurgated 1934 / complete edition 1964)
- Douglas Mawson (1882-1958): Antarctic Diaries (written 1911-14 / published 1915 / complete edition 1988)
- Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950): Diary (written 1919 / published 1936 / complete edition 1999)
- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963): Opium: The Diary of a Cure (written 1929 / published 1930 / translated 1958)
- Lydia Ginzburg (1902-1990): Blockade Diary (written 1941-44 / published 1984 / translated 1995)
- Arthur Koestler (1905-1983): Dialogue with Death (written & published 1937 / expurgated 1942 / re-edited 1966)
- Denton Welch (1915-1948): Journals (written 1942-48 / published 1952 / complete edition 1984)
- 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 |
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| R4 / C3 | 4-8/8 | Mary Chesnut | A Diary from Dixie | Radclyffe Hall | The Second Sex |
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| R5 / C4 | 11-15/8 | Alice James | Alice in Bed | D. H. Lawrence | John Thomas & Lady Jane |
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| 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 |
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| Graham Greene | The Lawless Roads |
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| R- / C- | 1-5/9 |
| MIDSEMESTER | BREAK |
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| R7 / C- | 8-12/9 | Vaslav Nijinsky | Diary of a Madman
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| 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 |
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| R10 / C9 | 29/9-3/10 | Lydia Ginzburg | The 900 Days | William Burroughs | Interzone |
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| R11 / C10 | 6-10/10 | Denton Welch | Voice through a Cloud | Kathy Acker | The Pirate |
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| R12 / C11 | 13-17/10 | Prison Notes
| Contemporary Extremities | Salman Rushdie | The Jewel in the Crown |
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| R- / C12 | 20-24/10 |
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| Pornotopia | Cyborg Manifesto |
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| R- / C- | 27-31/10 |
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| Journal (30%) / Research Essay (30%)
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| R- / C- | 3-7/11 |
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| Exam (60%)
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