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!

required works (still under construction)


dick, do androids dream of electric sheep


yuknavitch, dora, a head case

 

gurba, mean


palahniuk, choke

 

bohemia in southern california, ruby


morrison, the bluest eye

 

clowes, velvet glove cast in iron


pynchon, the crying of lot 49
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*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







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