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ENAM 802: American Studies Colloquium I
Syllabus
ver. 1.0; last updated 08/31/98
Texts:
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Summer Reading:
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John Berger, Ways of Seeing.
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John Crunden, A Brief History of American Culture.
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Neill Howe and Bill Strauss, 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
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James Hunter, Culture Wars.
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Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
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Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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Gary Wills, John Wayne's America.
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Raymond Williams, Keywords.
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New Texts:
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Stephen J. Fjellman, Vinyl Leaves.
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Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden.
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Miles Orvell, The Real Thing.
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Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land.
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Warren Susman, Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society
in the Twentieth Century
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Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America.
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Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society.
Calendar of Meetings
9/02:Organization and Introduction
9/07: Summer Reading I
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John Crunden, A Brief History of American Culture.
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Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
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Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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.AS Lab
9/14: Summer Reading II:
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Ian Howe,13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Fail?
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James Hunter, Culture Wars.
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John Berger, The Art of Seeing.
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AS Lab
9/21: Summer Reading III
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Gary Wills, John Wayne's America.
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Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society.
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AS Lab
9/28: American Studies: Getting the Lay of the Land
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Henry Nash Smith, Can
American Studies Develop a Method?
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Leo Marx, American
Studies A Defense of an Unscientific Method.
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Frederick Lewis Dekker, Disassembling
the Machine in the Garden.
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Bruce Kuklich, Myth
and Symbol in American Studies
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Kenneth Lynn, The
Regressive Historians
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Donald Pease, Visionary
Compacts and the Cold War Consensus.
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Nina Baym, Melodramas
of Beset Manhood.
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Joyce Joyce, The
Black Canon
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Phillip Fisher, The
New American Studies.
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Frederick Crews, The New Americanists.
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Frederick Crews, Whose
American Renaissance?
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Paul Lauter, The
Literatures of America: A Comparative Discipline
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Richard Ruland, Art
and a Better America
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David Levin,American
Historicism Old and New.
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Gene Wise, Paradigm
Dramas in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of the
Movement.
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Elizabeth Fox-Genovese,Between
Individualism and Fragmentation: American Culture and the New Literary
Studies of Race and Gender.
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Christopher P. Wilson, Containing
Multitudes: Realism, Historicism, American Studies.
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Christopher Clausen, National
Literatures in English.
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Jay Mechling, An
American Culture Grid, With Texts.
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Gerald Graff, The
Promise of American Studies.
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ASLAB
Suggested:
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Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin, eds., Critical Terms for Literary
Study, especially Stanley Fish, Rhetoric, Stephen Greenblatt,
Culture, John Guillory, Canon, Myra Jehlen, Gender,
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Race, Werner Sollors, Ethnicity, James
H. Kavanagh, Ideology, John Fiske, Popular Culture, Louis
Menand, Diversity, and Daniel T. O'Hara, Class. (C)
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Theresa de Lauretis, ed., Feminist Studies, Critical Studies.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Race: Writing and Difference.
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Frederick Jameson, The Political Unconscious.
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John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture.
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Werner Sollors, Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture.
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Edward Said, Orientalism.
10/05: From American Studies to American Cultural Studies
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Gene Wise, From
American Studies to American Cultural Studies
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Clifford Geertz, Ideology
as a Cultural System
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Roland Barthes, Myth
Today, Striptease, Toys, Wrestling
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Frederick Jameson, Postmodernism:
The Logic of Late Industrial Capitalism
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Peter Berger, Society
as Drama
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Jane Caputi, IBM's
Charlie Chaplin: A Case Study
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Robert Darnton, The
Great Cat Massacre in the rue Severain
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Umberto Eco, Travels
in Hyperreality
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Umberto Eco, Casablanca,
or, The Cliches are Having a Ball
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Gary Engle, What
Makes Superman so Darned American?
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Peter Giblan, The
Art of Being Off-Center: Shopping Center Spaces and Spectacles
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bell hooks, Madonna:
Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister?
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George H. Lewis, From
Common Dullness to Fleeting Wonder: The Manipulation of Cultural Meaning
the the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Saga
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Andrew Wernick, Vehicles
for Myth: The Shifting Image of the Modern Car
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Michael Walker, Kings
Row
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Joan Kron, The
Semiotics of Home Decor
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Roland Marchand, The
Parable of the Democracy of Goods
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ASLAB
10/26: The Middle Ground (continued)
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Noah Webster, Preface
to The American Dictionary of the English Language
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Edgar Allen Poe, The
Man of the Crowd, and The Man That Was All Used Up,
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, The
American Scholar
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The
Maypole of Merrymount
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Roger
Malvin's Burial
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, My
Kinsman, Major Molineaux
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Abraham Lincoln,
The Gettysburg Address.
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Abraham Lincoln, Second
Inaugural Address.
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Walt Whitman, fromDemocratic
Vistas.
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Walt Whitman, The
Eighteenth Presidency
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Jacob Riis,Introduction
and Genesis
of the Tenement from How the Other Half Lives.
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William Graham Sumner, Selection
from What the Social Classes Owe Each Other
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Frederick Jackson Turner,
The Significance of the Frontier in American History.
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Thorstein Veblen, Industrial
Exemption and Conservatism from The Theory of the Leisure Classes
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Andrew Carnegie, Wealth
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George Santayana, Materialism
and Idealism in American Life from Character and Opinion in
the United States.
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Henry Adams, Chicago and The Dynamo and the Virgin, from The
Education of Henry Adams.
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V.L. Parrington, The Chief Stewards of Theocracy and The
Contributions of Independency from Main Currents in American Thought
Vol. I (C)
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William Carlos Williams, Voyage of the Mayflower and The
May-Pole at Maerry Mount from In the American Grain
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Constance Rourke, Corncobs
Twist Your Hair and The
Gamecock of the Wilderness from American Humor
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John Crowe Ransom, A
Statement of Principles
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Lionel Trilling, Reality
in America
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Reinhold Niebuhr, Where
Have We Been? Where are We Going?
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AS Lab
Suggested:
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Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience.
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F.O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, The Age of Jackson
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Gary Wills, The Gettysburg Address
Suggested:
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Robert Berkhofer, The White Mans' Indian.
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Frank Prucha, Americanizing the American Indian.
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Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence.
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Tompkins, Jane P. West of Everything : The Inner Life of Westerns.
11/09: Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden.
Suggested:
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Gary Cross, Technology and American Society : A History.Thomas Parke
Hughes, American Genesis : A Ccntury of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm,
1870-1970.
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Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization
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Cecelia Tichi, Shifting Gears : Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist
America.
11/16: Allen Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America.
11/23: Miles Orvell The Real Thing, pp. xv-239
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Lawrence H. Levine, William Shakespeare in America,from Shakespeare
in America.
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Tom Gunning, Tracing the Individual Body: Photography, Detectives, and
Early Cinema in Leo Charney and Vanessa R. Schwartz, eds., Cinema and
the Invention of Modern Life (C)
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Ben Singer, Modernity, Hyperstimulus, and the Rise of Popular Sensationalism,
in Charney and Schwartz. (C)
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Erika D. Rappaport, 'A New Era of Shopping;' The Promotion of Women's
Pleasure in London's West End, 1909-1914 in Charney and Schwartz. (C)
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Alexandra Keller, Disseminations of Modernity: Representation and Consumer
Desire in Early Mail-Order Catalogs in Charney and Schwartz. (C)
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Miriam Bratu Hansen, America, Paris, the Alps: Kracauer (and Benjamin)
on Cinema and Modernity, in Charney and Schwartz. (C)
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AS Lab
Suggested:
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Walter Benjamin, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
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Daniel Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America.
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Neil Harris, Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum.
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T. J. Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance : A Cultural History of Advertising
in America.
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Susan Sonntag, On Photography.
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Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass
Market
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Alan Trachtenberg, Brooklyn Bridge: Symbol and Fact.
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Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs.
Thanksgiving Vacation: 11/26-11/29
11/30: Warren Sussman, Culture as History.
Suggested:
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The World's Columbian
Exposition.
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John Cawelti, America on Display: The Worlds' Fairs of 1876, 1893, 1933,
in F. Jaher, ed., The Age of Industrialism in America.
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Sigfried Gideon, Mechanization Takes Command.
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John Higham, Strangers in the Land.
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Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted.
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Howard Mumford Jones, The Age of Engergy.
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Neil Harris, Grand Illusions : Chicago's World's Fair of 1893
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T.J. Jackson Lears and Richard W. Fox, eds., The Culture of Consumption.
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David Noble, America by Design.
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Alan Trachtenberg, Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol.
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Sam Bass Warner, The Urban Wilderness.
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Mike Wallace, Mickey Mouse History
Hypertext extensions to The Incorporation of America, Virgin
Land due 11/30.
12/07: Gilbert Seldes, The
Seven Lively Arts
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ASLAB
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Note: Seldes Projects will be due after the Christmas break.
Suggested:
12/14:
NOTE:Revisons of Yellow Pages due 12/02.
Vacation Reading: Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory.
: Stephen Fjellman, Vinyl Leaves.
: Collect ten unique electronic resources relating to the 1930s;
post to /MA99/resource.html
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