American University of Paris--Syllabus
SUMMER SESSION: June 6-July 21 2015, A-1
Course no. and title: EN/CL 2050 Expatriate Writers in Paris
Prerequisites: none
Credit: 4
Professor: Sneharika Roy
Office hours: Thurs., 15:30-16:30 or on appointment in G 41
Class schedule: Monday-Thursday, 13:40 - 15:20
Contact: [email protected] and Grenelle mailbox (147 rue de Grenelle)
------------------------------------------------------------COURSE DESCRIPTION
Creative writers tend to like traveling, and to thrive in foreign countries. In the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, Paris became the destination of choice for Anglophone writers, many of whom
settled here for important periods in their careers. This course will explore the trends towards
expatriation through selections from authors like Mark Twain, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes, and James Baldwin.
City walks in Paris to be announced in class.
-------------------------------------------------------------Texts in order of reading (to be purchased from the AUP bookstore):
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway (1964, posthumous publication)
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin (1956)
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes (1936)
Course packet of selected excerpts will be distributed in class.
Additional Recommended Reading/Bibliography (available at the AUP library):
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology, ed. Adam Gopnik
Paris in Mind, Jennifer Lee
Walks in Hemingway's Paris: A Guide to Paris for the Literary Traveler, Noel Fitch
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris (see Geoffrey Gilbert’s “The location of
experiment: ‘modernist Paris’”) [Also available as an e-book through the AUP library online e-books]
Course Requirements:
l. Students are expected to attend all classes. More than three absences are an automatic failing
grade no matter what the excuse.
2. Participation, two home assignments, and reports (oral and written)
3. Final examination
ATTENDANCE & ABSENCES:
Students studying at the American University of Paris are expected to attend all scheduled class sessions. The
AUP Summer Programs are very intensive. Therefore, unless an individual professor decides otherwise; three
absences will automatically result in the student receiving an F grade in that course. Students should consult the
complete attendance policy in the summer catalogue.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS:
Students who are not native speakers of English must present official TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign
Language) results of a minimum of 600 on the paper-based test, along with their applications. TOEFL scores are
mandatory prerequisites for those who wish to enroll in any English (EN) courses.
Non-native English speakers who currently attend an English-language college or university and who have not
taken the TOEFL, must have successfully completed the English language and/or English literature classes
required by their home institutions.
Tentative Schedule:
(Walking trips to be announced, detailed schedule outlining dates for oral reports will be
provided in class)
Week 1 – “Ex-patriation”, Paris as a “pre-text”, and literary apprenticeship:
Course packet excerpts and A Moveable Feast
Week 2 – Expatriate Love: Course packet excerpts and Tender is the Night; home assignment 1
due
Week 3 – “Ex-centric Outsiders 1”: Course packet excerpts and Giovanni’s Room
Week 4 – “Ex-centric Outsiders 2”: Course packet excerpts and Nightwood; home assignment 2
due
Week 5: Comparative analysis
Week 6: Final Exam