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[Pablo Picasso: Minotauromachy (1935)]


Banned Books

Administration:

[Clovis Trouille: La Voyeuse]

• Welcome


• Timetable


• Course Description


• Bibliography


• Assignments

Authors:

[The Pornographer]

• Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943)


• James Joyce (1882-1941)


• D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)


• Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)


• Henry Miller (1891-1980)


• Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)


• Graham Greene (1904-1991)


• William Burroughs (1914-1997)


• Kathy Acker (1947-1997)


• Salman Rushdie (1947- )

Novels:

[Entropy]

• Ulysses (1922)


• The Well of Loneliness (1928)


• Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)


• Tropic of Cancer (1934)


• The Power and the Glory (1940)


• Lolita (1955)


• Doctor Zhivago (1957)


• Naked Lunch (1959)


• The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1975)


• The Satanic Verses (1988)

Sessions:

[Laurentius de Voltolina: The Lecturer (c.1350)]

1. Introduction
   • Lecture: Why Ban Books?
   • Workshop: Areopagitica (1644)
   • Exercise: Test Case - The Golden Ass


2. James Joyce: Ulysses (1922)
   • Lecture: The Muses of Fiction
   • Workshop: Civilisation and its Discontents (1930)
   • Exercise: The Bloomsday Game


3. Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness (1928)
   • Lecture: Plot
   • Workshop: The Second Sex (1949)
   • Exercise: Spot the Lesbian Sex-Scene


4. D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
   • Lecture: Character
   • Workshop: John Thomas and Lady Jane (1954)
   • Exercise: Comparing Connies


5. Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer (1934)
   • Lecture: Setting
   • Workshop: Inside the Whale (1940)
   • Exercise: Where is Francis?


6. Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (1940)
   • Lecture: Time
   • Workshop: The Lawless Roads (1939)
   • Exercise: Paradoxes of the Faith


7. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (1955)
   • Lecture: Point of view
   • Workshop: Seduction of the Innocent (1954)
   • Exercise: Pornography or Moral Tract?


8. Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (1957)
   • Lecture: Detail
   • Workshop: We Never Make Mistakes (1963)
   • Exercise: Who is Lara?


9. William Burroughs: Naked Lunch (1959)
   • Lecture: Structure
   • Workshop: Interzone (1989)
   • Exercise: DIY Cut-ups


10. Kathy Acker: The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (1975)
    • Lecture: Style
    • Workshop: The Pirate (1974)
    • Exercise: Spot the Piracy


11. Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses (1988)
    • Lecture: Theme
    • Workshop: The Jewel in the Crown (1966 / 1984)
    • Exercise: How Many People Can You Offend in One Lifetime?


12. Conclusion
    • Lecture: Pornotopia
    • Workshop: A Cyborg Manifesto (1985)
    • Exercise: Design Your Own Utopia

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