The Expatriate American Community in Paris after WWI
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TR 3-4:30
Addressing the question of community composition, the course will
examine the structure of the Left Bank community of Paris-based
artists from the vantage point created by the presence of American
artists among them. A brief core reading list will be read by the
whole class (see below). But the class will be broken down into sub-
groups, whose function it will be to prepare and deliver to the class
as a whole accounts of various materials--both primary and secondary--
not on the core list. These materials will include work by and about
Americans and others whose presence requires acknowledgment and
attention, as well as magazines, publishing houses, art galleries,
newspapers, cafes and other things that were central to the operation
of the community. Individuals in the class will be responsible for
both the core list and their particular sub-group materials, which
will be identified in the context of extensive conferences in the
first weeks of the semester. Throughout the semester each sub-group
will report regularly on its several projects, and at the end the
projects will assume the form of substantial research papers. At the
start, the most important point of understanding is that every person
registered for the class must be prepared to assume some significant
responsibility for helping to teach the class. CORE READING LIST:
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, Scribner's, 1964; Hemingway, The
Sun Also Rises, Scribner's, 1926; F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great
Gatsby, Scribner's, 1925: Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Scribner's,
1934; T. S. Eliot, Selected Poems, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch, 1936;
Ezra Pound, Selected Poems, A New Edition, New Directions, 1957.
updated 2006-03-29
