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American Writers in Paris

 

American Writers in Paris

Metro

June 19– 12: EMU Campus

June 15 – June 25: Paris


Itinerary:

June 9 – 12: EMU Campus

 

Monday, June 9: "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.

 

Tuesday, June 10: " 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.

 

Wednesday, June 11: "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.

 

Thursday, June 12: "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 15: Travel to Paris

Monday, June 16: Arrival around noon in Paris. Late afternoon Orientation and walking tour of

Latin Quarter (Shakespeare and Co.). Dinner together in the Latin Quarter.

Notre Dame

Tuesday, June 17: "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).

Montmartre

Wednesday, June 18: "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).

Louvre

Thursday, June 19: "The Lost Generation, Socialism and Imagism"

Morning: walking tour of Opera quarter, American Express Office, Grand Boulevards.

Afternoon free.

Evening: The Orsay Museum.

Musee D'Orsay

Readings: GOPNIK: Dos Passos (405-416), Cummings (306-310) ; COURSEPACK: Pound and

Eliot.

 

Friday, June 20: "Cubism, Dada and Surrealism"

Morning: The Pompidou Center (Museum of Modern Art) and the Beaubourg Quarter (lunch in

Les Halles).

Afternoon: The Picasso Museum.

Portrait of Francoise Gilot, Picasso

Evening free.

Readings : GOPNIK: Miller (386-404); Josephson (278-283).

 

Saturday, June 21: "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 22: "Essential Sites"

entire day: Versailles

EMU students at Versailles

Monday, June 23: "Essential Sites", cont .

The Cluny Museum and the Catacombs (optional).

Evening: dinner together in the Latin Quarter ( Au Bon Couscous ).

 

Tuesday, June 24 :

Free day!!

Cafe

Wednesday, July 25:

Depart from Paris and return to the U.S.

 


The Church at Auvers, van Gogh


For More Information Contact :

Dr. Heather Neff
Department of English Language and Literature
E-mail:
heather.neff@emich.edu

Or contact:

Academic Programs Abroad
103 Boone Hall
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Telephone: 734.487.2424 or 800.777.3541
fax: 734.487.4377
E-mail:Programs Abroad



 

Academic Programs Abroad
Eastern Michigan University
103 Boone Hall
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Voice: 734.487.2424 or toll free 800.777.3541
FAX: 734.487.4377

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