21L.701 | Spring 2009 | Undergraduate

Literary Interpretation: Literature and Urban Experience

Calendar and Readings

SES # READINGS KEY DATES
1 Introduction  
2

Wordsworth, William. “Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour July 13, 1978.” 1798.

———. “Book VII: Residence in London.” In The Prelude. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1979. ISBN: 9780393090710.

 
3

Engels, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in England. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, USA, 2009. ISBN: 9780199555888. [Read on Google Books]

Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Edited by Rolf Tiedermann. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780674043268. [Preview in Google Books]

 
4

Ritzer, George, ed. “Modernity.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Reference Online, 2007.

Walz, Robin. “Modernism.” Chapter 4 in A Companion to Europe 1900-1945. Edited by Gordon Martel. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006. ISBN: 9781405106641.

Simmel, Georg. “The Metropolis and Mental Life.” In The Sociology of Georg Simmel. Translated and edited by Georg Simmel and Kurt H. Wolff. New York, NY: Free Press, 1964. ISBN: 9780029289204. (PDF)

Eliot, T. S. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” In Prufrock and Other Observations. Qontro Classics, 2009.

 
5

Continue with “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

Williams, Raymond. “When Was Modernism?” and “Metropolitan Perceptions and the Emergence of Modernism.” In The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists. New York, NY: Verso, 2007, pp. 31-35 and 37-48. ISBN: 9781844675807.

 
6-7 Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land and Other Writings. New York, NY: The Modern Library, 2002. ISBN: 9780375759345.  
8 Workshop: modernism  
9-10 Woolf, Virgina. Mrs. Dalloway. New York, NY: Penguin USA, 1996. ISBN: 9780140622218. [Preview in Google Books]  
11

Continue with pages 80-161 of Mrs. Dalloway.

Le Corbusier. “The City of Tomorrow and its Planning.” In The Blackwell City Reader. Edited by Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd., 2002. ISBN: 9780631225140. [Preview in Google Books]

 
12 Essay workshop First paper due
13

Lynch, Kevin. “The Image of the City.” In The Blackwell City Reader. Edited by Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd., 2002. ISBN: 9780631225140. [Preview in Google Books]

Selvon, Sam. The Lonely Londoners. New York, NY: Longman, 1989. ISBN: 9780582642645.

 
14 Continue with The Lonely Londoners.  
15

Patch, Jason, and Neil Brenner. “Gentrification.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by George Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

Raban, Jonathan. “The Magical City.” In Soft City. New York, NY: Picador, 1974. ISBN: 9780330456494.

 
16

Taylor, Victor E. “Postmodern Culture.” In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by George Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

Williams, Raymond. “The Politics of Avant-Garde.” In The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists. New York, NY: Verso, 2007, pp. 49-63. ISBN: 9781844675807.

Jameson, Frederic. “The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.” In Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992, pp. 1-54. ISBN: 9780822310907. [Preview in Google Books]

 
17

Continue with The Condition of Postmodernity.

Harvey, David. “Modernity and Modernism & Postmodernism.” In The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry Into the Origins of Cultural Change. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell, 1991, pp. 10-65. ISBN: 9780631162940.

 
18

Continue with The Condition of Postmodernity.

Smith, Zadie. “Stuart.” The New Yorker 75 (December 27, 1999): 60.

Orum, Anthony M. “Urbanization.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by George Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. ISBN: 9781405124331.

 
19 Carson, Ciaran. Belfast Confetti. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780916390402. Revised paper due
20 Continue with the second half of Belfast Confetti.  
21 Vassanji, M. G. The Gunny Sack. Toronto, ON: Anchor Canada, 2005. ISBN: 9780385660655.  
22 Continue to p. 236 of The Gunny Sack. and “M.G. Vassanji comes to class.”  
23 Continue to the end of The Gunny Sack.  
24

Smith, Neil. “New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification of Global Urban Strategy.” Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 34, no. 3 (2002): 427-450.

Wilson, Robert McLiam. Ripley Bogle. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2000. ISBN: 9780345430946. [Preview in Google Books]

 
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Continue with pages 104-255 of Ripley Bogle.

Davis, Mike. “Fortress L.A.” In City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York, NY: Verso, 2006. ISBN: 9781844675685.

 
26 Continue to the end of Ripley Bogle. Final essays due

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