Summer
2018 | English 525 | Professor William
Nericcio | MTWTH
10am-11:40 | HH 134
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 t’s  the summer of love on
Montezuma Mesa as you walk into a seminar room
dedicated to literature, art, photography,
theatre and more from the United States after
1960. It's title? "Sex, Drugs, (Film, Lit, Art,)
& Rock'n'Roll."
The catalogue calls this class LIT OF
THE US 1960-PRSNT, but "LIT OF THE US
1960-PRSNT" is not the real title of our July
9th thru August 21st experiment. While
technically, yes, all the works we peruse
/ devour
/ mainline
will hail from the 'loins' of Uncle Sam since
1960, this will NOT be your grandfather's
literature survey. Our class's real name (keep
it quiet! keep it off the Narc's radar!) is: Sex, Drugs,
{Film, Lit,} & Rock'n'Roll.
 Our
experimental survey of literature, stories,
comics, art, movies, photography, theatre, and
more is a barely closeted, thinly disguised
course on American metamorphosis, on Unitedstatesian
transformation, as we track how writers and
artists chronicle the lunatic gyrations of the
ever-evolving, always shape-shifting America
psyche. As we read works by Philip K.
Dick, Myriam Gurba, and Toni Morrison; listen to
music by the Velvet Underground & Prince,
and watch movies by ...TBD, we will enter
strange exotic/erotic and subterranean worlds,
bizarre spaces subject to radical processes of transmogrification
and existential transubstantiation.
This class is open to ALL majors and all level
of students from freshmen to graduate
students--no expertise with literature (or sex,
drugs, and rock'n'roll) is required or presumed!
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required works (still under
construction)
dick, do androids dream of electric
sheep
yuknavitch,
dora, a head case
bohemia in
southern california, ruby
clowes, velvet
glove cast in iron
pynchon, the
crying of lot 49
http://amzn.to/2tlzyIY
*note! amazon links provided as a courtesy
so that you can see the correct edition of
the text we are doing in class (please feel
no need to get Jeff Bezos any richer). We
will be reading paper books with printed
ink, so DO NOT purchase virtual books for
this class. The campus bookstore official
booklist is here: https://eva.aztecshops.com/sth/tbDefault.aspx
class social media sites
TUMBLR
FACEBOOK
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