Instr: Liddy, James
Office: CRT 517; 229-5441
e-mail: liddy@uwm.edu
Office hours: W 3:00pm - 4:00 or by appt.
Course Information: MW; 12:30pm - 1:45pm; CRT 368
We will explore the sophistication of Californian writers, different in kind from the East coast. Writing in the West primarily in San Francisco shifted in the fifties to concentrate on the figures of Jack Kerouac and a "holy family" of Bohemians. They represented a new underground whose activities included pad-making, friend-finding, drug-ingesting, traveling, jazz, etc. At the same time West Coast born poets were exploring alternatives in writing, learning, and behavior. They imagined a cultural center that pulled away from New York, perhaps they imagined a Pacific utopia of the arts.
Texts in order of teaching schedule:
Other writers in this group that could be consulted include Philip Whalen, Lenore Kandel, Diane di Prima, Sr. Mary Norbert Korte, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Richard Brautigan George Stanley, Joyce Johnson (a bibliography will be handed out). Maybe a week in mid-semester when there would be presentations by students on Charles Bukowski?
