ASSIGNMENTS
Sept. 8 - Introduction
Sept. 13 - Whitman: "City of Orgies," "To a Stranger," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun," "City of Ships," "Mannahatta," "Broadway," sections 8 and 42 of "Song Of Myself" (1855-1889)
Sept. 15 - Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1856)
Sept. 20 - New York Architecture and Urban Planning
Cf. Goldberger, THE SKYSCRAPER
Sept. 22 - New York and the Modern Artist: painting, photography,
the art scene.
Cf. Conrad, ART OF THE CITY
Sept. 27 - Kazin, A WALKER IN THE CITY (1951)
Sept. 29 - Kazin
Oct. 4 - Bellow, SEIZE THE DAY (1956)
Oct. 6 - Bellow
Oct. 11 - Petry, THE STREET (1946)
Oct. 13 - Petry
Oct. 18 - Ellison, THE INVISIBLE MAN (1952)
Oct. 20 - Ellison
Oct. 25 - Mailer, AN AMERICAN DREAM (1965)
Oct. 27 - Mailer
Nov. 1 - Selby, LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN (1964)
Nov. 3 - Selby
Nov. 8 - Election Day
Nov. 10 - Ginsberg, HOWL (1956)
Nov. 15 - O'Hara, poems including "Poem (At night Chinamen jump), "Poem (The eager note on my door)," "Memorial Day 1950," "1951," "Blocks," "Walking to Work," "Meditations in an Emergency," "Music," "to the Harbormaster," "A Step Away from Them," "Why I am Not a Painter," "A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island," "The Day Lady Died," "Steps"
(1950-1966)
Nov. 17 - Paley, THE LITTLE DISTURBANCES OF MAN (1956-59)
Nov. 22 - Paley
Nov. 24 - Thanksgiving
Nov. 29 - Leavitt, THE LOST LANGUAGE OF CRANES (1986)
Dec. 1 - Leavitt
Dec. 6 - Janowitz, SLAVES OF NEW YORK (1986), especially "The Slaves in New York," "Engagements," "Life in the Pre-Cambrian Era," "Sun Poisoning," "Snowball," "Turkey Talk,", "Physics," "Spells," "Ode to Heroine of the Future," "Matches"
Dec. 8 - Janowitz |