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Additional hard copies will be placed in the English Department Library, located in 7190 Helen C. White. Please contact Thom Dancer if you encounter technical difficulties while downloading the documents.

2006-07 Readings

newest to oldest

Roundtable: "Rooms of Our Own." (Friday, April 27th, 10am in 6191 HCW). Chapter 1 and Chapter 3 from Susan Gubar's Rooms of Our Own.

Roundtable: "The Sense of an Interior." (Thursday, March 29th, 12pm in 7191 HCW). Diana Fuss: "Corpse Poem."

Roundtable: An Aesthetic of Conscientious Objection: Domestic Interiors Against the War? (Thursday March 22, 12:00 pm in 6191 HCW). Readings on the Modernism/Modernities website.

Roundtable: The Economy of Presitge (Thursday, February 8th, 12:00PM in 7101 HCW). James English's "Prizes and the Study of Culture" from The Economy of Prestige. Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters: Chap. 1 & Chap. 5.

Roundtable: Postmodernism and the City (Friday, December 3rd, 11:00AM in 7101 HCW). Paula Geyh's (1) "From Cities of Things to Cities of Signs: Urban Spaces and Urban Subjects in Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer," (2) "Urban Free Flow," and (3) "The Situationist City: Dérive and New Urban Spaces." As well as George Saunders's (4) "my flamboyant grandson."

Forum: Global Interiors (Thursday, September 14th, 4:00 in 7191 HCW). Michel Foucault: "Texts/Contexts: Of Other Spaces" (pdf), Walter Benjamin: "Unpacking My Library" (pdf), and Victoria Rosner: "Studies" (pdf).

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