Monday

Timetable



Lecture: Wednesday 12-1 pm
Workshop: Wednesday 1-3 pm

(16/7) - Lecture / Workshop 1
Questions of Genre / Fellow Travellers


Anthology texts:
  • Walter Benjamin: from The Arcades Project (1929-40 / 1999)
  • Donald Keene: from Travelers of a Hundred Ages (1999)
  • Thomas Mallon: from A Book of One’s Own: People and Their Diaries (1984)
  • Sylvia Plath: from The Journals (1983 / 2001)

(23/7) - Lecture / Workshop 2:
Lady Daibu / The Tale of the Heike
(c. 1174-1232 / c. 1260)

Anthology texts:
  • Lady Daibu (c.1157-1235): from Poetic Memoirs (1980)
  • from As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (1971)
  • Murasaki Shikibu: from The Diary of Lady Murasaki (1982)
  • Murasaki Shikibu: from The Tale of Genji (1976)
  • Sei Shōnagon: from The Pillow Book (1967)
  • from The Gossamer Years (Kagerō Nikki) (1964)
  • from Heike Monogatari (1180-85 / 1371 / 1988)

(30/7) - Lecture / Workshop 3:
Daniel Defoe / The Plague
(1665 /1722)

Anthology texts:
  • Daniel Defoe (1660-1731): from A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
  • Samuel Pepys: from The Diary (1665-66)
  • Richard West: from The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe, Writer (1998)

(6/8) - Lecture / Workshop 4:
Mary Chesnut / A Diary from Dixie
(1861-65 / 1905)

Anthology texts:
  • Mary Chesnut (1823-1886): from Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981)
  • Mary Chesnut: from The Private Mary Chesnut: the Unpublished Civil War Diaries (1861-65 / 1984)
  • Shelby Foote: from The Civil War: A Narrative (1958-74)

(13/8) - Lecture / Workshop 5:
Alice James / Alice in Bed
(1889-92 / 1934)

Anthology texts:
  • Alice James (1848-1892): from The Diary (1964)
  • Susan Sontag: from Alice in Bed (1993)
  • Jean Strouse: from Alice James: A Biography (1980))
  • Ruth Bernard Yeazell: from The Death and Letters of Alice James (1981))

(20/8) - Lecture / Workshop 6:
Douglas Mawson / The Home of the Blizzard
(1911-14 / 1915)

Anthology texts:
  • Douglas Mawson (1882-1958): from The Antarctic Diaries (1988)
  • Douglas Mawson: from The Home of the Blizzard (1915)

Due in Friday (22/8):
Creative Response (20 %)

[Mid-Semester Break]
(25/8-5/9)


(10/9) - Lecture / Workshop 7:
Vaslav Nijinsky / Diary of a Madman
(1919 / 1936)

Anthology texts:
  • Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950): from The Diary (1936 / 1999)
  • Richard Buckle: from Nijinsky (1971)
  • Lu Xun: "Diary of a Madman," from Cheering from the Sidelines (1918-1922)
  • Romola Nijinsky: from Nijinsky (1933)
  • Romola Nijinsky: from The Last Years of Nijinsky (1952)

(17/9) - Lecture / Workshop 8:
Jean Cocteau / Diary of a Drug Fiend
(1929 / 1930)

Anthology texts:
  • Jean Cocteau (1889-1963): from Opium: The Diary of a Cure (1930 / 1958)
  • Aleister Crowley: from Diary of a Drug Fiend (1922)

(24/9) - Lecture / Workshop 9:
Arthur Koestler / Spanish Testament
(1937 / 1942)

Anthology texts:
  • Arthur Koestler (1905-1983): from Dialogue with Death (1942)
  • Arthur Koestler: from Spanish Testament (1937)
  • Arthur Koestler: from The God That Failed (1950)
  • Arthur Koestler: from The Invisible Writing (1954)
  • George Orwell: from Homage to Catalonia (1938)

(1/10) - Lecture / Workshop 10:
Lydia Ginzburg / The 900 Days
(1941-44 / 1984)

Anthology texts:
  • Lydia Ginzburg (1902-1990): from Blockade Diary (1984 / 1995)
  • Harrison E. Salisbury: from The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad (1969)

(8/10) - Lecture / Workshop 11:
Denton Welch / A Voice through a Cloud
(1942-48 / 1952)

Anthology texts:
  • Denton Welch (1915-1948): from The Journals (1952 / 1984)
  • Denton Welch: from A Voice through a Cloud (1950)
  • Michael De-la-Noy: from Denton Welch: The Making of a Writer (1984)

(15/10) - Lecture / Workshop 12:
Prison Notes / Contemporary Extremities


Anthology texts:
  • Jack Henry Abbott: from In the Belly of the Beast (1981)
  • Kurt Cobain: from Journals (2002)
  • Donald Keene: from Modern Japanese Diaries (1999)
  • Wole Soyinka: from The Man Died: Prison Notes (1971)

[Labour Day]
(27/10)

Due in Tuesday (28/10):

Course Journal (30%)
Research Essay (30%)

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