... . ... date topic; texts
discussed recommended
links week 1 08.04. Johnston,
Ian. week 2 15.04. Walt
Whitman, "Song of the Open
Road" week 3 22. 04. John
Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath week 4 29. 04. week 5 05.05 John Ford, Grapes
of Wrath
(1940) week 5 06.05. (Meeting
chaired & organized by:
Leif) John
Ford, Grapes of Wrath week 6 13.05. On the road
- journey as a state of being Jack
Kerouac, On
the Road
(Penguin guide) week 7 20.05. On the
road Jack
Kerouac, On
the Road
(Penguin guide) week 7 Film screening: 6pm-8pm
(probably in Room 3) week 8 27.05. road movies
(2): week 9 03.06. road songs week 9 09.06 Film screening: 6pm-8pm
(probably in Room 3) week 10 10.06. week 11 17.06. William Least
Heat-Moon, Blue Highways week 12 24.06. William Least
Heat-Moon, Blue Highways week 13 30.06. Film screening: 6pm-8pm
(probably in Room 3) week 13 01.07. postmodern road
movies (4) Lynch,
David. Wild
at Heart
week 14 08.07 roading
off Baudrillard:
"Vanishing Point" Some
links: Road
Movies The
Road in
Literature Walt Whitman.
Song
of the open Road.
(1900, Leaves of Grass)
[http://www.bartleby.com/142/82.html] Kerouac: last changes: May 2003
UNIVERSITÄT BASEL
DEPARTMENT
OF ENGLISH
The
Romance of the Road
2nd Year Course - Summer Term 2003 Tuesdays, 1015-1145
(Deutsches Seminar, room 5)
Ladina Bezzola / Markus Marti
new: How
to write an academic paper
course
programme
recommended links:
Timeline
of American History, Literature, and
Culture
History
of American Highways
road
songs
road
movies
the
road in literature
Walt
Whitman
Bibliography
to Walt Whitman
John
Steinbeck
Bibliography
to Steinbeck's Grapes of
Wrath
Jack
Kerouac
Bibliography
to Kerouac's On the
Road
William
Least Heat-Moon
Bibliography
to William Least Heat-Moon
Course programme
Tuesday 10.15-11.45
The Highway to Mount Zion
John Bunyan
(1628-88): The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I
(1678)
John Bunyan: The
Pilgrim's Progress
Introduction
to The Pilgrim's
Progress
Study
Page, Plot
(Monkey Notes)
Allons!
Walt Whitman: "Song
of the Open Road"
Song
of the open road
Bibliography
to Walt Whitman
In Search of the Lost Eden
John Steinbeck:
The Grapes of
Wrath
(Meeting
chaired & organized by: Jonny and
Alexandra)
The
Grapes of Wrath
Bibliography
to Steinbeck's Grapes of
Wrath
Car Culture
John
Steinbeck:The Grapes of Wrath
Roger Casey, Textual
Vehicles
John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath
The
Grapes of Wrath
Bibliography
to Steinbeck's Grapes of
Wrath
History
of American Highways
Film screening: 6pm-8pm (probably in Wandelbar,
Deutsches Seminar)
road movies (1):
John Ford's Grapes of Wrath
Sobchack, Vivian
C. "The Grapes of Wrath (1940): Thematic
Emphasis through Visual Style"
John
Ford, Grapes
of Wrath
(1940)
Bibliography
to Steinbeck's Grapes of
Wrath
Jack Kerouac: On
the road
(Meeting
chaired & organized by: Patricia and
Michael)
Jack Kerouac, On The Road
1st
chapter
(hypertext)
Kerouac.
On the Road
Bibliography
to Kerouac's On the
Road
Jack Kerouac:
On the road
(Meeting
chaired & organized by: Sabine and
Cora)
Jack
Kerouac, On The Road
1st
chapter
(hypertext)
Kerouac.
On the Road
Bibliography
to Kerouac's On the
Road
22.05
Easy
Rider
Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider (1969)
(Meeting
chaired & organized by: Marc and
Deniz)
Route 66:
(Meeting
chaired & organized by: Stefan and
Kornelia)
bring your favourites...
Recordings
of "Route 66"
Thelma
and Louise
road movies (3):
Thelma and Louise
(Meeting
chaired & organized by: Maite, Estela and
Marco)
(Meeting
chaired & organized by: Madleina and
Helen)
William Least Heat-Moon.
Blue Highways
William
Least Heat-Moon
Ronald
Primeau: "Journeys of
Self-Discovery"
William Least Heat-Moon.
Blue Highways
William
Least Heat-Moon
Lynch, David. Wild
at Heart
(Meeting
chaired & organized by Saskia and Oliver)
Road
Songs
"Get Your Kicks On Route 66" by
Bobby
Troup
Travel my way, take the highway that's the best
Get your kicks on Route 66.
It winds from Chicago to L.A.
More than 2,000 miles all the way
Get your kicks on Route 66.
You go through St. Louie, Joplin, Missouri
And Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty.
You'll see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona, don't forget Winona
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino.
Won't you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66.
Recordings
of "Route 66"
[http://www.route40.net/songs/66.shtml]
Bruce
Springsteen:
The Ghost of Tom Joad
Woody Guthrie: biography:
Woody Guthrie: Tom
Joad;
Talking
Dust Bowl Blues;
I
Ain't got no Home Anymore;
DO-RE-MI;
Highway
66 Blues;
Deportee
(Pastures of Plenty);
Pretty
Boy Floyd
Camel (Andrew Latimer): Dust
and Dreams (1991)
texts
Ry
Cooder
[http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/CoodDsBl.htm]
Weingroff, Richard
F. (Federal Highway Administration, Office of the
Associate Administrator for Program Development)
Road
Movies
[http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/summer96/p96su42.htm|]
Women
in Road Movies
[http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/WomanRoads.htm]
North, Sam. Road
Movies
[http://www.hackwriters.com/roadone.htm]
Headman, Gary. Road
Movies: Media
Resources
[http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/roadmovies.html]
John Ford, Grapes
of Wrath
(1940)
Peter Fonda and Dennis
Hopper: Easy
Rider
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0064276]
Two
counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to
New Orleans in search of
America.
Easy
Rider (1969)
[http://www.filmsite.org/easy.html]
Jarmusch, Jim. Down
by Law (1969)
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0090967]
The story of
three different men in a Louisiana prison and their
eventual journey
Down
by Law (1986)
[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/DownbyLaw-1006185/reviews.php]
Sarafian, Richard C. Vanishing
Point
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067927]
Kowalski, the
hero of the story, works for a car delivery
service. He takes delivery of a supercharged 1970
Dodge Challenger...
Sarafian, Richard C. Vanishing
Point (1971) reviews
[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/VanishingPoint-1022504/reviews.php]
Spielberg, Stephen. Sugarland
Express (1974)
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0072226]
Stephen
Spielberg's first theatrical release follows a
fugitive couple fleeing to Sugarland, Texas.
Lou-Jean (Goldie Hawn) tells her husband, who is
imprisoned, to escape. They plan to kidnap their
own child...
Scott, Ridley. Thelma
and Louise
(1991)
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103074]
An Arkansas
waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take
off in a '66 Thunderbird...
Thelma
and Louise
(script)
[http://www.hundland.com/scripts/ThelmaAndLouise.txt]
Lynch, David Wild
at Heart
[http://www.wayney.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/wildatheart.htm]
Lula's
psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of
Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from
jail...
script
[http://www.krug.org/scripts/wildatheart.html]
Reviews:
[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/WildatHeart-1029842/]
The
Straight Story
[http://www.wayney.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/straight.htm]
The
true story of Alvin Straight (Farnsworth) who rides
his 1961 lawnmower from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion,
Wisconsin, to visit his estranged brother after the
latter suffers a stroke.
Bertarelli, James.
Review: The Straight
Story.
[http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/s/straight_story.html]
more
reviews:
[http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/straightstory]
the
Road in Literature
[http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/Literoad.htm]
Road
Narratives
[http://twist.lib.uiowa.edu/amerroad/syllabus.html]
Walt Whitman. Song
of the open road
[http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/song_of_the_open_road.htm]
Greenspan, Ezra. From
Manhattan to Jerusalem
Locating Whitman's Open Road.
[http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/faculty/ezrag/walt3.htm]
Whitlark, James. Poetry
as Hypnosis: An Ericksonian Approach to "Song of
the Open Road"
Magazine For Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
[http://www.hypnos.co.uk/hypnomag/whitlark.htm]
Bibliography
to Walt Whitman
John
Steinbeck
John Steinbeck The
Grapes of Wrath
[http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/grapes.html]
chapter
summary etc.
Teaching
Grapes of Wrath
[http://diglib.lsu.edu/tahil/grapes/index2.htm]
Transcript
[http://www.geocities.com/classicmoviescripts/script/grapesofwrath.txt]
The
Grapes of Wrath
[http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/JOADS1.HTM]
John Ford, Grapes
of Wrath
[http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Grapes+of+Wrath,+The+(1940)]
Lavender, Cathrin Grapes
of Wrath study page
[http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/grapes.html]
Context:
The
Great Depression:
Library of Congress Resource pages
[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/depwar.html]
The Oklahoma dust
bowl
Pictures:
LoC
Photographs
[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/dustbowl/onroad.html]
Songs:
"I'd
rather not be on relief"
(song)
[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/dustbowl/onrelief.html]
Bruce Springsteen:
The Ghost of Tom Joad
Woody Guthrie: biography:
Tom
Joad;
Talking
Dust Bowl Blues;
I
Ain't got no Home Anymore;
DO-RE-MI;
Highway
66 Blues;
Deportee
(Pastures of Plenty);
Pretty
Boy Floyd
Camel (Andrew Latimer): Dust
and Dreams (1991)
texts
Ry
Cooder
[http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/CoodDsBl.htm]
John Steinbeck
Travels
with Charley
[http://www.steinbeck.org/Travels.html]
Bibliography
to Steinbeck's Grapes of
Wrath
Jack
Kerouac
General sites on the
Beat Movement:
The
Beat Movement
[http://people.tamu.edu./~alethaa/beat.html]
Internet
Resources to the Beat
Movement
[http://people.tamu.edu./~alethaa/beat.html#inte]
The
Beat Generation
[http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/BeatGen.html]
The
Beat Generation
[http://home1.inet.tele.dk/jenskoch/onroad1.htm]
Columbia: The
Birthplace of the Beat
Movement.
[http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/Places/Columbia.html]
Music:
Bebop
[http://www.wnur.org/jazz/styles/bebop.html]
Kerouac,
Jack.
[http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=JackKerouac]
Listen
to Kerouac reading
[http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~gallaher/k_speaks/kerouacspeaks.html]
Kerouac, Jack (1922-64), On
the Road
(Penguin guide)
[http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/rguides/us/on_the_road.html]
1st
chapter (hypertext)
[http://home1.inet.tele.dk/jenskoch/onroad1.htm]
Kerouac, Jack.
On the Road
[http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/picks_on_kerouac.htm]
On the Road plot
summary
[http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/OnTheRoad.htm]
Who
is who: Character
Alias Key
[http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/5083/key.html]
Mayer, Kurt Albert "'Where
are we going, man?''I don't know but we gotta go.'"
Jack Kerouac's On the
Road
(excerpt of dissertation)
[http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/kamkerouac.htm]
Noferi, Marc. "Jazz
and the Beat Generation. The Musical Model in
Literature"
[http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/ams/Jazz/Jazz3/Noferi.htm]
Other Writers:
Burroughs,
William S.
(1914-1997): Biography, Bibliography, Audio,
Filmography etc. Links
[http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/william_s_burroughs.html]
Burroughs,
William S.
[http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=WilliamSBurroughs]
Cassady,
Neal.
[http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=NealCassady]
Ginsberg,
Allen. He discovered
the poetry of Walt Whitman (the original Beatnik)
in high school, but despite his interest in poetry
he followed his father's advice and began planning
a career as a labor lawyer. This was what he had in
mind when he began his freshman year at Columbia
University, but he fell in with a crowd of wild
souls there, including fellow students Lucien Carr
and Jack Kerouac and non-student friends William S.
Burroughs and Neal Cassady. These delinquent young
philosophers were equally obsessed with drugs,
crime, sex and literature
Ginsberg, Allen. Howl
[http://alt.venus.co.uk/weed/writings/poems/agh.htm]
or here
[http://plagiarist.com/poetry/?wid=3747]
Bibliography
to Kerouac's On the
Road
William
Least Heat-Moon
William Least
Heat-Moon.
Blue Highways
[http://angam.ang.univie.ac.at/roadcult/leastheatmoon/LeastHeatMoon.html]
William
Least Heat-Moon
[http://www.heat-moon.com/index.html]
Heat-Moon
[http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/LeastHeatMoon.html]
Black
Elk: Biography
[http://www.thewildwest.org/native_american/faces/index.html#Elk]
Black
Elk Speaks
(Neihardt, John G. ed. Black Elk speaks; being
the life story of a holy man of the Oglala
Sioux. , full text)
[http://www.blackelkspeaks.unl.edu/index2.htm]
Bibliography
to William Least
Heat-Moon
University of Basel, Switzerland
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