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Paris Travel Writing: Writing about Place, with trip to Paris May 13-23, 2010 Lisa Zeidner (zeidner@camden.rutgers.edu), English, Creative Writing This course will allow writers to explore the way location and landscape make their way into creative work. We'll read some great contemporary fiction and nonfiction dealing with Paris in particular, including Adam Gopnick's Paris to the Moon and Deborah Eisenberg's short stories. Then we'll use the trip as a way of exploring the foreign landscape as the inspiration for our own work, especially involving the creation of the non-tourist experience. (Want to get mugged? Go breakdancing in the suburbs?) Open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Meeting times TBA. Estimated price $2425: $350 Dec 5, balance Mar 5 Americans in Paris: The Lost Generation, with trip to Paris May 13-23, 2010 This course will feature the poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of prominent--and some not so prominent--American expatriate writers living in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. We will read and discuss in Camden the work of such authors as Gertrude Stein, Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, Ezra Pound, and E. E. Cummings. In May we will travel to Paris and get to know the writing at street-level, going on walking tours of the city. We will sit in the café where Hemingway composed one of his most famous short stories; we will visit the sites of some of the most modish expatriate salons; and we will see where some of these writers lived (many in Montparnasse) and are buried (in the cemetery Père Lachaise). Of course, we will also take in the cultural landscape of Paris more generally as it intersects with the work of these artists: the Eiffel Tower, the cathedral of Notre Dame, the Louvre, the Latin Quarter, the Moulin Rouge close to Montmartre, and some incredible public gardens. A short paper, an oral presentation, a reading journal, a final exam. Meeting times TBA.
Estimated price $2425: $350 Dec 5, balance Mar 5
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