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EUROG004
Topics in Cultural Studies
Dr Stephanie Bird
20 credits
Term 1
Tuesday 4pm - 6pm
Room - B10, 16-18 Gordon Square
1. Introduction: history of the city, approaches (Stephanie Bird)
Sex and the City
2. Female personifications of the city in medieval lyric (Catherine Keen)
3. Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (Ernest Schonfield)
City Space
4.
‘Remarkable, Unspeakable New York!’: The Architecture of Encounter in
Henry James, Franz Kafka, and Le Corbusier (Alice Gavin)
5. Dublin / London: Samuel Beckett’s Murphy (Alice Gavin)
6. Creative Destruction? Trauma in the ruined city (Phil Leask)
7. En Construccion, José Luis Guerín (Morwenna Symons)
Individuality and Alienation
8. The Economy of City Comedy: Projectors, Prostitutes, and Tramps (Alice Gavin)
Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" is being shown at the Barbican on
October 4th at 4pm if anyone would like to see it on the big screen:
http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=9648
9. Naturalism, Emile Zola (Ernest Schonfield)
10. Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk, Head On, Fatih Akin (Stephanie Bird)
