Itinerary:
EMU Campus
First Session : "Impressionism, Symbolism and the Origins of Modernism"
An examination of the political and cultural events that led to the birth of Modernism. Assigned
readings from American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place,
Donald Pizar.
Second Session : " The Lost Generation"
Focus on American expatriate writers after World War One, including Stein, Hemingway,
Pound, Eliot and Ftizgerald. Assigned readings from A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway.
Thrid Session : "Social and Artistic Experimentation"
The works of Henry Miller, Tristan Tzara and the rise of Dada and Surrealism. The rise of
Existentialism and literary responses to the Second World War. Readings from coursepack.
Fourth Session : "Paris as a Site of Liberation"
Major writers who have sought refuge in Paris from racial and social discrimination, including
African American expatriates. Readings from Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of
Light, Tyler Stovall.
Sunday, June 14: Travel to Paris
Monday, June 15: Arrival around noon in Paris. Late afternoon Orientation and walking tour of
Latin Quarter (Shakespeare and Co.). Dinner together in the Latin Quarter.
Tuesday, June 16: "Paris: Medieval to Modern"
Morning: Walking tour of Notre Dame, Isle de la Cite, the Marais and Place des Vosges.
(lunch in the Beaubourg quarter).
Afternoon free.
Evening: the Eiffel Tower, Trocadero and Montmartre.
Readings : GOPNIK: Wharton (211-241); Anderson (250-263); Stein (374-386), Hughes (284-
293).
Wednesday, June 17: "The Lost Generation and Modernism"
Morning: walking tour of Montparnasse quarter; rue Mouffetard (lunch).
Afternoon free.
Evening: The Louvre and Tuileries, Place de la Concorde and Champs Élysées.
Readings: HEMINGWAY: A Moveable Feast; GOPNIK: Fitzgerald (345-364).
Thursday, June 18: "The Lost Generation, Socialism and Imagism"
Morning: walking tour of Opera quarter, American Express Office, Grand Boulevards.
Afternoon free.
Evening: The Orsay Museum.
Readings: GOPNIK: Dos Passos (405-416), Cummings (306-310) ; COURSEPACK: Pound and
Eliot.
Friday, June 19: "Cubism, Dada and Surrealism"
Morning: The Pompidou Center (Museum of Modern Art) and the Beaubourg Quarter (lunch in
Les Halles).
Afternoon: The Picasso Museum.
Evening free.
Readings : GOPNIK: Miller (386-404); Josephson (278-283).
Saturday, June 20: "Existentialism and the Black Expatriates"
Walking tour of S. Germain de Pres, Saint Suplice.
Readings: GOPNIK: Johnson (199-201), Hughes (284-293), Baldwin (467-481);
COURSEPACK: Wright, Baldwin, Himes.
Sunday, June 21: "Essential Sites"
entire day: Versailles
Monday, June 22: "Essential Sites", cont .
The Cluny Museum and the Catacombs (optional).
Evening: dinner together in the Latin Quarter ( Au Bon Couscous ).
Tuesday, June 23:
Free day!!
Wednesday, July 24:
Depart from Paris and return to the U.S.
