Assaying the Essay! |
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| October 7 |
Sam
Solecki: The Essay and the Evil Empire: the European Sensibility. Packet of readings by the following: Michel de Montaigne, Vaclav Havel, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Czeslaw Milosz, George Steiner, Adam Zagajewski. Sam Solecki is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His latest books inclde The Collected Letters of Al Purdy and a volume of Earle Birney's selected poems entitled One Muddy Hand. Current projects include a book on Truffaut and a series of essays on the Etruscans in literature and art. |
| November 11 |
Nick Mount: The Rebellion of Beauty –
Street Art and Lowbrow Art. Text: Queen's Quartely Summer Edition: "The Return of Beauty" by Nick Mount. Optional text: Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just. Nick Mount teaches Canadian literature at the University of
Toronto. He is the author of When
Canadian Literature Moved to New York, winner of the 2005
Gabrielle Roy Prize. Nick Mount is a two-time finalist in TVO’s Best
Lecturer
competition. |
| January 6 |
Alan Ackerman: Historian,
Novelist, Essayist, Egomaniac: Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night and
New Journalism. Text: Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night. Alan Ackerman teaches in the Department of English at U. of T. He is the author of The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage, co-editor of Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage, and editor of the journal Modern Drama. |
| February 3 |
Melba Cuddy-Keane: Virginia Woolf and "that queer
conglomeration of incongruous things – the modern mind." Texts: Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own; Selected Essays, ed. David Bradshaw. Melba Cuddy-Keane is Professor of English, a Northrop Frye Scholar, and a member of the Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture at U of T. Her recent publications include Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere and the Harcourt annotated edition of Woolf’s Between the Acts. |
| March 31 |
Andrea Most: Literary Quandaries:
Cynthia Ozick on Art and Idolatry. Texts: Short Stories: "The Puttermesser Papers" in The Puttermesser Papers and "Dictation" in Dictation. A packet of essays will be distributed. Andrea Most is Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies at U of T. Her most recent book is entitled Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical. Her new project, Theatrical Liberalism, is a book-length study on Jews in America. |
| May 5 |
Winston Smith: Colonizer and Colonized:
Mirroring Essay and Short Story in Camus. Texts: Alfred Camus: Resistance, Rebellion and Death (essays); Exile and the Kingdom, trans. Carol Cosman (short stories). Winston Smith is Professor of English at Seneca College. He
was (co-)owner of Writer & Co bookstore and for
ten years was host of "Expandable Language," a jazz show on CKLN
Radio. |
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Alan Ackerman
Historian, Novelist, Essayist, Egomaniac: Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night
and New Journalism.
At the risk of overloading you with articles pertinent to Mailer and his gang, I am attaching TWELVE!
Just click on the name of the article for a PDF file:
On Mailer and The Armies of the Night:
A Review, May 1968: "The Trouble He's Seen"
An Essay: "Mailer American Meltdown"
On Mailer:
A Novelist’s Nonfiction Captured the American Spirit
Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With a Matching Ego
The Letters of Norman Mailer
On Mailer's Intellectual Cohort and Their Contribution:
The War of the Intellectuals
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight
Norman Podhoretz: "My War with Allen Ginsberg"
On George Plimpton
Irving Howe: The New York Intellectuals (Commentay Magazine, 1968)
And . . . One Juicy Book:
Norman Podhoretz: Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer
http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/1999200510200857.asp
