Instr:                   Xavier Baron
Office:               CRT 585,   229-4517
e-mail:                fxbaron@uwm.edu
Office hours:    W& TH 4:30-5:20 and by appointment

Course Information:                   R  5:30-8:10pm   CRT 124
 

Course Description

London at War: 1939-1945 will examine poetry, fiction, memoirs, paintings, drawings, photography and films dealing with WWII and London’s experience.

This is a text AND image course. Until 6:45 each meeting we will discuss some of the wartime poetry of Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender Allan Ross, Mervyn Peake, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, David Wright and others. Written and spoken war correspondence by Molly Painter-Downes, Ernie Pyle, Edward R. Murrow and others, first hand accounts by William Sansom and Tony Harrison and the fiction of Elizabeth Bowen, In the Heat of the Day, Henry Green Caught and Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear.

From 7:00 until 8:10 we’ll view a series of films, documentaries about wartime London, Humphrey Jennings’ Listen to Britain and Fires Were Started,an evocation of London at War in John Boorman’s Hope and Glory as well as slides of war photographers such as Bill Brandt and Lee Miller and artists such as Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, John Piper and Muirhead Bone.

In addition to Mid-term and Final examinations, a five page (double spaced) literary critical paper is required.