WRI 408 - Literature Seminar:Beatnik 101

Institution:

Naropa University

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Description:

An interdisciplinary introduction to Naropa lineages and American culture. Novelists/memoirists W.S. Burroughs, Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac; poets Diane DiPrima, Ginsberg, Corso; artists Joan Brown and Bruce Conner art & films are the artistic focus. Steven Taylor's punk music memoir False Prophets updates artistic strategies for survival by both men and women in America's sociopolitical climate re 1950s through the 1990s. Social class and gender are covered. Students keep a folder of poetry/prose assignments and write a research essay. Techniques for character & narrative development in fiction, poetry and nonfiction are stressed. Open to W&L students only, others by permission of the department.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.naropa.edu

Phone Number:

(303) 444-0202

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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