Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0178 - Detection and the City
Spring
2013
1
4.00
Polina Barskova;Jeffrey Wallen
10:30AM-11:50AM T,TH;06:30PM-08:30PM W
Hampshire College
310557
Franklin Patterson Hall 101;Adele Simmons Hall 112
pbHA@hampshire.edu;jwHA@hampshire.edu
What does it mean to know the city: to trace, to follow, even to be lost in it or blur with it? How does the urban landscape inform the narrative? What narratives can the city give birth to? This class will look at various texts of investigation and detection that are inalienable from their surroundings. Authors will include Poe and Baudelaire, Pushkin and Conan Doyle, Dickens and Dostoevsky, Blok and others. Cities will include St. Petersburg, London, and Paris.
Culture, Humanities, and Languages Multiple Cultural Perspectives