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]
25	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