Recently, in a somewhat more obvious marketing strategy, the Modern Library declared the same book to be the greatest novel of the century. In addition to Ulysses , we will read works by W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, and Harryette Mullen, and we will study films by Dziga Vertov, Charlie Chaplin, Robert Altman and others. Requirements include two papers and several short exams.
Attendance is mandatory.