Notebook

[Diary of the Dead (2008)]

Semester 2 Timetable

Two courses:

Crisis Diaries (MA: 797)

Sessions:

1. Introduction - Donald Keene: Travelers of a Hundred Ages (1989)
2. Lady Daibu (c.1157-1235): Poetic Memoirs (written c.1174-1232 / edited c.1260 / translated 1980)
3. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731): A Journal of the Plague Year (written (ostensibly) 1665 / published 1722)
4. Mary Chesnut (1823-1886): Mary Chesnut's Civil War (written (ostensibly) 1861-65 / edited 1880s / published 1905 / complete edition 1981)
5. Alice James (1848-1892): Diary (written 1889-92 / expurgated 1934 / complete edition 1964)
6. Douglas Mawson (1882-1958): Antarctic Diaries (written 1911-14 / published 1915 / complete edition 1988)
7. Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950): Diary (written 1919 / published 1936 / complete edition 1999)
8. Jean Cocteau (1889-1963): Opium: The Diary of a Cure (written 1929 / published 1930 / translated 1958)
9. Lydia Ginzburg (1902-1990): Blockade Diary (written 1941-44 / published 1984 / translated 1995)
10. Arthur Koestler (1905-1983): Dialogue with Death (written & published 1937 / expurgated 1942 / re-edited 1966)
11. Denton Welch (1915-1948): Journals (written 1942-48 / published 1952 / complete edition 1984)
12. Conclusion - Kurt Cobain: Journals (2002) &c.

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Banned Books (stage 2: 666)

Sessions:

1. Introduction - John Milton: Areopagitica (1644)
2. James Joyce: Ulysses (1922) - banned in Britain and America [moral censorship]
3. Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness (1928) - banned in Britain [moral censorship]
4. D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) - banned in Britain and America [moral censorship]
5. Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer (1934) - banned in Britain and America [moral censorship]
6. Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (1940) - censured by the Vatican [religious censorship]
7. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (1955) - banned in Britain [moral censorship]
8. Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (1957) - banned in the USSR [political censorship]
9. William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch (1959) - banned in Britain and America [moral censorship]
10. Kathy Acker: The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1975) - withdrawn from sale in Britain [accused of plagiarising Harold Robbins' The Pirate (1974)]
11. Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses (1988) - banned in most of the Islamic world [religious censorship]
12. Conclusion - Rick Poynor: Pornotopia (2006)

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