English 104, The Twentieth Century

Spring, 1996, Prof. W. Steiner

Office: BH312
Hours: W 10:30-12:00 and by appointment

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TA's:

Jill Wacker: Office hours to be announced;
Darryl Wadsworth, Office hours to be announced;

Texts

On Order at the Penn Book Center:

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Don DeLillo, White Noise
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
James Joyce, Ulysses
Tom Stoppard, Hapgood

On the English Department Gopher and Web for English 104:

Henry Adams, "The New Multiverse"
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Andre Breton, "Surrealism"
Albert Camus, "Absurd Freedom," The Fact of Absurdity"
Simone de Beauvoir, "Conclusion" to The Second Sex
"Degenerate Art": Statement from the Catalogue of the Degenerate Art Exhibition
Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics
Zelda Fitzgerald, "Eulogy on the Flapper," "Paint and Powder," "What Became of the Flappers?"
T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
F. S. Flint and Ezra Pound, "Imagism"
Sigmund Freud, "The Instincts," "The Structure of the Unconscious"
Allen Ginsberg, "America"
Martin Heidegger, "Dread Reveals Nothing"
William James, "Pluralism, Pragmatism, and Instrumental Truth"
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, pp. 204-5
Adolf Loos, "Ornament and Crime"
F. T. Marinetti, "The Joy of Mechanical Force"
Ezra Pound, selected poems, "Vorticism"
Adrienne Rich, "For the Record," "North American Time," "What would it mean to live"
Salman Rushdie, "In Good Faith"
Jean-Paul Sartre, "Choice in a World without God," "Existence Precedes Essence"
Gertrude Stein, "Portraits and Repetition," selected poems, Tender Buttons
George Steiner, "Postscript"
Wendy Steiner, on pop art, from Pictures of Romance
Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar," "The Snow Man," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Leon Trotsky, "The Limitations of Formalism"
Tristan Tzara, "Dadaism"
Oscar Wilde, "The Improvidence of Art"
William Carlos Williams, "The Hunter," "The Red Wheelbarrow," "To Waken An Old Lady"
Tom Wolfe, "The New Journalism"
Virginia Woolf, from A Room of One's Own
Judge John M. Woolsey, "The Monumental Decision of the United States District Court Rendered December 6, 1933, by Hon. John M. Woolsey Lifting the Ban on "Ulysses" -- Forward to by Morris L. Ernst
W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"