English 328:  Seminar in American Literature from the Civil War to the Present  
Topic:  "American Modernism in Paris Between the Wars"
Spring 2012
Jefferson Hendricks

Texts:  

• Henry James, The American.  (1877)  New American Library.   ISBN: 9780451529664
• Gertrude Stein, Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein.  Random House.  ISBN: 9780679724643
• Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises.   (1926)   Simon and Schuster/Scribner.   ISBN: 9780743297332
• Ernest Hemingway,  A Moveable Feast.  Simon and Schuster/Scribner.   ISBN: 9781439182710
• E. E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems.  Grove.  ISBN: 9780811216715.  
• Djuna Barnes, Nightwood.  New Directions. ISBN: 9780811216715
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night.  Simon and Schuster/Scribner.  ISBN: 9780684801544 

Background Readings:

• Late 19th century French and American culture/history:
• Realism and the Realist Novel  --  Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, Robin Parmar, The Electronic Labyrinth, U. of Virginia
• Realism in American Literature, 1860-1890  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U. 
• American Realism:  A Brief Introduction  --  Paul P. Reuben,  PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
• American Realism:  1865-1910  --  Patricia Penrose
• American Literary History: Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism  --  Carol Scheidenhelm, Loyola U, Chicago
• "Realism and 'Absent Things in American Life'"  --  Amy Kaplan   [The "Introduction" to The Social Construction of American Realism,  pp. 1-14]
• Naturalism in American Literature  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U. 
• "Albertine's Bicyle, or:  Women and French Identity During the Belle Epoque"  --  Sian Reynolds, U. of Stirling
• "A New Century:  From the Genteel Poets to Robinson and Frost" --  Christopher Beach,  Chapter One of The Cambridge Introduction to 20th Century American Poetry

• Modernism:
• definition of literary modernism  -- Chris Baldick, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
• Modernism:  a working definition  --  Catherine Lavender,  The Honors College of The College of Staten Island of The City University of New York
• a brief guide to Modernism  --  Poets.org  
  
• Modernism  --  Pericles Lewis, Yale U.  
• Modernism and Religion  --  Pericles Lewis, Yale U. 
• Modernism and the Modern Novel  --  Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, Robin Parmar, The Electronic Labyrinth
• "The Aura of Modernism"   --  Marjorie Perloff, Stanford U. 
• Modernism in the Visual Arts   --  Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Sweet Briar College
• The Roots of Modernism
• Modernism and Art for Art's Sake
• Modernism and Politics
• Modernism and Postmodernism
• Modernism and the End of Art
• Postmodern to Post-Postmodern: The Po-mo Page  -- Martin Irvine, Georgetown U.    [with good info on Modernism, too]

• American Modernism:   
• American modernism -- Wikipedia
• The Early Twentieth Century:  American Modernism  -- Paul P. Reuben,  PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
• The 1913 Armory Show:  Modernism Comes to America 
• The Armory Show  --  Artlex
  
• The Amory Show -- Shelley Staples, American Studies program, U. of Virginia
• The 1913 Armory Show:  America's First Art War --  Tom McCormack,  art21
  
• The 1913 Armory Show: Much Ado About Everything -- Kristen M. Osborne, art&education
• The Armory Show -- Abstraction Arrive [The Armory Show in Chicago] --  Illinois State Museum
• Catalogue of International Exhibition of Modern Art --  Association of American Painters and Sculptors 

• Americans in Paris: 
• Poetry of the First World War:  American Poets  --  Monogahela Books
• Literary Ambulance Drivers in World War I  --  First World War.com
• Petals on a Wet Black Bough:  American Modernist Writers and the Orient  --  Beineicke Library Exhibit, Yale U.  (1996)
• "Expatriates:  Paris Was the Twentieth Century" -- from Intimate Circles:  American Women in the Arts,  Beinecke Library, Yale U.
• Geniuses Together:  Literary Expatriates in Paris from Gertrude Stein and James Joyce to Samuel Beckett and the Beats -- Wilson Library, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  
• "Modernism and Mystery: The Curious Case of the Lost Generation " -- Carolyn A. Dunham, Twentieth Century Literature   [on contemporary American murder mysteries set in Paris]
• "I See France: Priorities in Nonfiction" -- Edward C. Knox, Twentieth Century Literature  [on contemporary American non-fiction about France]
• "An Intersection of Interests: Gurdjieff's Rope Group as a Site of Literary Production" -- Rebecca Rauve, Twentieth Century Literature
• "Friends and Strangers - French-American Relations" -- John Engle, Twentieth Century Literature  [introduction to special issue on American-French literary relations]
• Josephine Baker:  A Century in the Spotlight  --  special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online
• Venus Noire:  Josephine Baker and the Parisian Dance Hall -- John Kear
  
• "Non-Stop at Le Jockey:  Americans and Jazz in Paris"  --  Colin Nettelbeck, Chapter 9 of Dancing With de Beauvoir:  Jazz and the French

• Extra stuff: 
• "The Politics of Fiction"  --  Elif Shafak, TED Talk video

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Week 1:  

• Text: 
• Henry James, The American

• Biographical/Critical Context:
• Henry James -- Jonathan Freedman, The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

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Week 2:  

• Text: 
• The American  --  Henry James
• from "The Preface" to The American  --  Henry James

• Biographical/Critical Context: 
• Henry James  --  Wikipedia
• Henry James biographical sketch -- Henry James Resource Center
• Henry James  --  Priscilla L. Walton, GLBTQ:  An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture

• criticism on The American
• "Christopher Newman's Haircloth Shirt:  Worldly Asceticism, Conversion, and Auto-Machia in The American"  --  Pericles Lewis, Yale U.
• "Tradition and Modernity in Henry James's The American"  --  Marita Nadal, U. of Zaragoza, Spain 
• "The American and 'Le Roman Policier'"  --  Susan E. Gunter, Westminster College/Sofia U.  
• "Henry James's Mathematics" [on The American and Washington Square]  --  Philip A. Cavlier, Catawba College
  
• "The Wavering Ruins of The American"  --  Enrico Bota  (in Henry James's Europe:  Heritage and Transfer)
• "From Copying to Revision:  From The American to The Ambassadors"  --  Paula Marantz Cohen (in Henry James's Europe:  Heritage and Transfer)
• "Tourist Attractions, Stereotypes and Physiognomies in The American" -- H. K. Riikonen  (in Supplemental Online Chapters to Henry James's Europe:  Heritage and Transfer)
• Henry James's Europe:  Heritage and Transfer --  Dennis Tredy, Annick Duperray, Adrian Harding, eds. 
• The American -- Spark Notes
• The American -- Wikipedia 

• Cultural/Historical Context:  
• American painters in Paris:
  
• James McNeil Whistler (1834–1903)
• James McNeil Whistler  --  H. Barbara Weinberg, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• James McNeil Whistler   --  Wikipedia
• Images by Whistler @ Wikipedia
  
• Images: 
• Symphony in White, No. 1 (The White Girl)  (1862)
• Symphony in White No. 2 (The Little White Girl)  (1865) 
• Harmony in Blue and Silver: Trouville  (1865)
• Symphony in White, No. 3  (1867)
• Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1  (Whistler's Mother)  (1871) 
• Nocturne in Black and Gold:  The Falling Rocket  (1874) 
• Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge  (1875) 
• Nocturne: The Thames at Battersea (1878)
• Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore Duret  (1883)  
• Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844–1926)
• Mary Steven Cassatt -- H. Barbara Weinberg, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Mary Cassatt:  The Complete Works
• Mary Cassat images @ Wikipedia
• Images:  
• On a Balcony During a Carnival  (1873)  
• Young Woman Reading (1876)
• Little Girl in a Blue Armchair  (1878) 
• Self Portrait  (1878)  
• In the Loge (At the Opera)  (1878-79)http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_C.html#concrete_poetry_anchor
• The Cup of Tea  (1880) 
• Girl Arranging Her Hair  (1886)  
• The Bath  (c.1891) 
• The Boating Party  (1893-94)
• Mother and Child (The Oval Mirror)  (1901)  
  
• Margot in Blue  (1902) 
• John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
• John Singer Sargent  -- H. Barbara Weinberg, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
• Images: 
• In the Luxembourg Gardens  (1879) 
• In the Luxembourg Gardens at Twilight  (1879; version with Pantheon)  
• The Daughters of Edward Darley Bolt (1882)
• Madame X  (Gautreau)  (1884)  
• The Misses Vickers  (1884)  
• Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife (1885)
• Claude Monet Painting By the Edge of a Wood (1885)
• Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose  (1886)
• Lady Agnew of Lochnaw  (1893)  
• The Wyndham Sisters  (1893)  
• Mr. and Mrs. Issac Newton Phelps Stokes  (1897)
  
• Winifred, Duchess of Portland (1902) 
• William Merritt Chase  (1902)  
• The Sitwell Family  (1902) 
• Self Portrait  (1907)  
• Henry James  (1913)  
• John D. Rockefeller (1917)  
• Gassed (1918)
• Nonchaloir  (Repose)  (1919)

• Keywords/Concepts/Terms/People: 
• Novel, Romance, and Gothic: Brief Definitions  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U. 
• the romance  --  Wikipedia
• the "romance" tradition in American literature 
• The Romance -- Michael Davey, from  American History through Literature, 1820–1870
• "The American Romance and the Changing Function of the Imaginary"  --  Winfried Fluck, Free U. of Berlin
• the novel -- Wikipedia
• The Novel  -- Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, Robin Parmar, The Electronic Labyrinth, U. of Virginia   
• The Novel  --  from A Guide to the Study of Literature -- English Department, Brooklyn College
• narrator  --  Wikipedia
  
• realism and naturalism in literature -- M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms
• novel of manners  --  Wikipedia
• melodrama -- Wikipedia
  
• realism in the visual arts
• impressionism in the visual arts
• Second French Empire, 1852-1870  --  Wikipedia
• French Third Republic, 1870-1940  --  Wikipedia
• Napoleon III  --  Wikipedia
• The Gilded Age in American history

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Week 3:  27 Rue de Fleurus, The Stein Salon

• Texts:   
• from Gertrude Stein, Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
• "A Message from Gertrude Stein" 
• "General Introduction" --  F. W. Dupee
• "A Stein Song" -- Carl Van Vechten
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas  (1933) --  Gertrude Stein

• Biographical/Critical Context:
• Gertrude Stein  --  The Poetry Foundation
• Gertrude Stein  --  The European Graduate School
  
• Gertrude Stein  --  Corinne Blackmer, GLBTQ:  An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture
  
• Gertrude Stein  --  Linda Simon, Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia
• Gertrude Stein  --  Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen, Books and Writers - Authors Calendar
• Gertrude Stein --  Wikipedia
• Gertrude Stein  --  Paul P. Reuben,  PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
• Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas  --  Extravagant Crowd:  Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women, Beinecke Library Exhibit, Yale U.  
  
• Alice Babette Toklas  -- Linda Simon, Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia
• Alice B. Toklas  --  Wikipedia   

• Cultural/Historical Context:  
• Cubism --  Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
• Cubism  --  Wikipedia
• Pablo Picasso  -- Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art,  NYC
• Getrude Stein  (1905-1906;  Metropolitan Museum of Art,  New York)
• Les Demoiselles d'Avignon  (1907; Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• American Modernism -- Wikipedia
• stream of consciousness  --  The International Society for the Study of Narrative
• William James -- Wikipedia

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Week 4:  The Revolution of the Word:  Stein, Pound, and Avant Garde Experimentation in Poetry

• Text: 
• Gertrude Stein, texts tba

• Biographical/Critical Context:
• "The Difference is Spreading: On Gertrude Stein"  -- Marjorie Perloff, Stanford U.
• "The Genius and Her Sanctuary"  [ review of Two Lives:  Gertrude and Alice, by Janet Malcolm]  --  Catharine Stimpson, The American Scholar
• "Subjectivity and the Aesthetics of National Identity in Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"  --  Phoebe Stein Davis, Twentieth Century Literature
• "Gossip and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"  --  [author not indicated; essay on U. of California, Santa Barbara site]
  
• "Method in Madness: A Study of the Ex-centric Cubist Aesthetics of Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein" -- Savi Munjal, U. of Delhi
• "Words as Objects"  [from How I Read Gertrude Stein] -- Lew Welch, Electronic Poetry Center, State University of New York at Buffalo
• Gertrude Stein links -- Cary Nelson and Bartholomew Brinkman, MAPS:  Modern American Poetry @ U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Featured Subject:  Gertrude Stein  --  New York Times

• Cultural/Historical Context:  
• Futurism
• F. T. Marinetti
• Ezra Pound
• Imagism
• Wyndham Lewis
• Vorticism
• T. S. Eliot
  
• Mina Loy 
• Eugene and Maria Jolas
• The Transatlantic Review
• Little magazines
• Sylvia Beach
• Shakespeare and Company
  
• James Joyce 
• Ulysses
  

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Week 5:

•  Text: 
• The Sun Also Rises -- Ernest Hemingway

• Biographical/Critical Context:
• Ernest M. Hemingway -- Poetry Foundation
• Ernest Miller Hemingway  --  Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen, Books and Writers - Authors Calendar
• Ernest Hemingway biography -- Hemingway Resource Center
• Ernest Hemingway and the Expatriate Modernist Movement -- Gale/Cengage
  
• photo exhibit of Hemingway during the Paris years, 1922-1930  --  Hemingway Collection, JFK library   [and the media gallery at the JFK that contains photos from throughout his life]
  
• Timeline of Hemingway in Paris -- Steve Lane, Vancouver Island U.  
  
• Hemingway on War and Its Aftermath  --  Thomas Putnam, Prologue Magazine
• Ernest Hemingway -- Wikipedia   

• Cultural/Historical Context: 
• the lost generation  --  Wikipedia
• Montparnasse
• Le Dome
• Le Select
• 
  
• "Harlem-Sur-Seine:  Building an African American Diasporic Community in Paris"  -- Tyler Stovall, Stanford Electronic Humanities Review 

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Week 6:  

• Text: 
• The Sun Also Rises -- Ernest Hemingway

• Biographical/Critical Context: 
• "Hemingway's Debt to Cezanne:  New Perspectives"  --  Theodore L. Gaillard, Jr., Twentieth Century Literature
• "Painterly Ambitions: Hemingway, Cézanne, and the Short Story" -- Monika Gehlawat, Journal of the Short Story in English
• "'Bitched': Feminization, Identity, and the Hemingwayesque in The Sun Also Rises" -- Todd Onderdonk,  Twentieth Century Literature
• "'Primitive Emotions:  A Tragedy of Revenge Called The Sun Also Rises"  -  Ernest Lockridge, Journal of Narrative Technique
  
• "Gender Identity and the Modern Condition in The Sun Also Rises"  --  Jennifer Banach, Salem Press
• "Expatriate Lifestyle as Tourist Destination:  The Sun Also Rises and Experiential Travelogues of the Twenties" --  Allyson Nadia Field, Hemingway Review
  
• "Brett, Punishment, and Freedom in The Sun Also Rises"  --  Danielle Walsh,  U of Vermont      [honors thesis]
  
• "The Sun Also Rises: A Memory of War " -- William Adair, Twentieth Century Literature
• "Alcoholism in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Wine and Roses Perspective on the Lost Generation"  --  Matts Djos,  Mesa State College
• "Hemingway and the Creation of Twentieth-Century Dialogue"  --  Robert Paul Lamb, Twentieth Century Literature
• The Sun Also Rises -- Spark Notes
  

• Cultural/Historical Context:

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Week 7:  

• Text:  
• E. E. Cummings poems, tba

• Biographical/Critical Context: 
• E. E. Cummings  --  Poetry.org
• E. E. Cummings  --  The Poetry Foundation
• E. E. Cummings  --  Wikipedia
• E. E. Cummings  --  Jerry Frazee, Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
• E. E. Cummings and Paris  --  Spring:  The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society
• "‘Paris;this April sunset completely utters’. The Landscape of Paris through E. E. Cummings’ Eyes"  --  Eva María Gómez Jiménez, U. of Grenada, Spain
• "The Literary World of E. E. Cummings [in Paris]"  --  Christiann Anderson, Bonjour Paris
  
• Spring:  The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society   

• Cultural/Historical Context: 
• concrete poetry  -- Poetry Foundation
• concrete poetry  --  L. Kip Wheeler, Carson-Newman College
  
• concrete poetry  -- Poetry Foundation
• concrete poetry  --  L. Kip Wheeler, Carson-Newman College
  
• concrete poetry  --  Wikipedia
  
• a brief guide to concrete poetry  --  Poets.org
• "Looking At and Looking Through:  Futurism, Dada, and Concrete Poetry  --  Poets.org
  
• visual poetry --  Wikipedia
• Ubuweb:  Visual Poetry  --  Derek Beaulieu
• concrete poetry  --  Wikipedia
  
• a brief guide to concrete poetry  --  Poets.org
• "Looking At and Looking Through:  Futurism, Dada, and Concrete Poetry  --  Poets.org
  
• visual poetry --  Wikipedia
• Ubuweb:  Visual Poetry  --  Derek Beaulieu

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Week 8:  

• Text:  
• E. E. Cummings poems, tba

• Biographical/Critical Context: 
• E. E. Cummings  --  Michael Benzel @ MAPS:  Modern American Poetry, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign  --  Cary Nelson and Bartholomew Brinkman, eds
• "The Rebellion of E. E. Cummings"  --  Adam Kirsch, Harvard Magazine
• "E. E. Cummings:  Modernist Painter and Poet"  --  Milton A. Cohen, Smithsonian Studies in American Art
• "Introduction" and Timeline to Words into Pictures:  E. E. Cummings’ Art across Borders  --  Edited by Jiří Flajšar and Zénó Vernyik, eds., Cambridge Scholars Publishing 
  
• E. E. Cummings  --  Paul P. Reuben,  PAL: Perspectives in American Literature

• Cultural/Historical Context:  

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Week 9:  

• Text:  
• Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

• Biographical/Critical Context: 
• Djuna Barnes --  Catherine Stimpson, New York U. (Heath Anthology of American Literature)
• Djuna Barnes  --  Wikipedia
• "Are you still alive, Djuna?"  --  Ephemeral New York  
  
• Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes  --  Intimate Circles:  American Women in the Arts, Beinecke Library, Yale U. 
• Djuna Chappell Barnes  --  Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen, Books and Writers - Authors Calendar
• teaching guide to Djuna Barnes  -- Catherine Stimpson, New York U. (Heath Anthology of American Literature)      

• Cultural/Historical Context:  
• The World of Natalie Clifford Barney  --  Suzanne Rodriguez 
• photos of Natalie Barney's salon and friends  --  Gay Paris:  Culture, Society, and Urban Sexual Identity
• Natalie Barney page (including photos of Natalie Barney's salon at 20, rue Jacob)  --  Kay Keys
  
• Amazones et Sirènes - Natalie Barney:  excerpts and photos from Paris Was A Woman by Adrea Weiss  --  Gay Paris:  Culture, Society, and Urban Sexual Identity
• "Eccentricity and Deterritorialization in Natalie Barney’s The One Who is Legion"  --  Bettina Schreck, University of Tübingen, Germany
• Margaret Anderson
• Jane Heap
• The Little Review
• 
  

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Week 10:  

• Text:  
• Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
• Djuna Barnes, The Book of Repulsive Women  (1915)

• Biographical/Critical Context: 
• Adventures in Feministory:  Djuna Barnes  -- Lindsay Baltus, Bitch Media
• on Djuna Barnes -- excerpts from Women of the Left Bank   --  Shari Benstock
• "Creatures of the Dark" [on Nightwood]  --  Jeanette Winterson, The Guardian
• "Nightwood"  --  Sady O.,  Popmatters
• "Nightwood, Revisted"  --  Megan Mayhew Bergman, Ploughshares Literary Magazine
• Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913-1919 -- Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Jan-Aug, 2012
• "Beyond Rescue:  Djuna Barnes"  --  Chapter 4 of Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars  --  Tyrus Miller
• "Introduction" to Improper Modernism:  Djuna Barnes's Bewildering Corpus -- Daniela Caselli, U. of Manchester
• "Inappropriate and Dazzling Sideshows: Interpellating Narratives in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood" -- Ann Kennedy, U. of Michigan
• "Backwards ventriloquy: the historical uncanny in Barnes's Nightwood" --  Merrill Cole, Twentieth Century Literature
• "Looking the Part: Performative Narration in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and Katherine Mansfield's "Je Ne Pane Pas Francais"" -- Sarah Henstra, Twentieth Century Literature
• "Well of course, I used to be absolutely gorgeous dear": The Female Interviewer as Subject/Object in Djuna Barnes's Journalism"  --  Nancy Bombaci, Criticism
• Djuna Barnes  -- Paul P. Reuben,  PAL: Perspectives in American Literature 

• Cultural/Historical Context:  

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Week 11:  

• Text: 
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

• Biographical/Critical Context: 
• F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald  --  Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen, Books and Writers - Authors Calendar
• "Introduction:  Scott, Zelda, and the Culture of Celebrity"  --  Ruth Prigozy, The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald  [this file is missing the last four pages of the essay]
• Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald  --  Kirk Curnutt, Troy University Montgomery  (Encyclopedia of Alabama)  
• Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald  --  Wikipedia
• Save Me The Waltz  (1932) -- Wikipedia

• Cultural/Historical Context:

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Week 12:  

• Text: 
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

• Biographical/Critical Context: 
• "Breakdown:  A Review of Tender is the Night"  --  Malcolm Cowley, The New Republic  (June 6, 1934)
• Introduction to “F. Scott Fitzgerald — A collection of critical essays” -- Arthur Mizener, Cornell U.  
• Tender Is The Night and the “Ode to a Nightingale”  -- from Explorations of Literature - Rima Drell Reck, ed.   
• "Fitzgerald’s 'Figured Curtain':  Personality and History in Tender is the night  -- Bruce L. Grenberg,  U. of British Columbia  
• "Fitzgerald's French" -- Michael Hollington, Twentieth Century Literature
• "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Evolving American Dream:  'The Pursuit of Happiness' in The Great Gatsby, Tender in the Night, and The Last Tycoon"  --  John Callahan, Twentieth Century Literature
• Tender is the Night  --  Spark Notes

• Cultural/Historical Context:  

• Keywords/Concepts/Terms/People: 

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Week 13:  

• Text: 
• Ernest Hemingway,  A Moveable Feast

• Biographical/Critical Context: 
• A Moveable Feast  --  Wikipedia
• Ideas for Teaching Hemingway's A Moveable Feast -- Al Filreis, U. of Pennsylvania
• "Ernest Hemingway's Memoir of Paris in the Twenties"  --  Charles Poore, New York Times  [review of when the book was first released in 1964]
  
• "Books of a Lifetime:  A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway"  --  Sadie Jones, The Independent
  
• "Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast Still Satisfies" -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

• Cultural/Historical Context:  
• autobiography
• memoir

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Week 14:  

• Text: 
• Ernest Hemingway,  A Moveable Feast

• Biographical/Critical Context: 
• "The Relationship of Fiction to Autobiography"  [on A Moveable Feast] --  Birgitt Flohr
• "Hemingway's Libidinous Feast"-- Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic
• "Moveable Feast is Recast by Hemingway Grandson"  -  Motoko Rich, New York Times
• "Second Serving of Hemingway's A Moveable Feast Sparks Debate"  --  Steve Paul, PopMatters
• "Summer Reading Special: A Conversation with Seán Hemingway"  --  Farah Miller, O, The Oprah Magazine    [on his re-editing his grandfather's memoir]
• Forum on the re-editing of A Moveable Feast -- JFK Library, Boston
  

• Cultural/Historical Context:  

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Week 15:  

• Review; Evaluations