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WebTychoExpatriate Writers in Paris: 1920s Information Sheet
Objectives/ Outcomes:
1) Compare/contrast major literary works and figures (primarily in American Literature) from the 1920’s in Paris, France
2) Define major 20th c. literary/cultural movements in historical context of the 1920’s
3) Apply works, figures, and movements to our own lives and century
Requirements and Grading: LL UL
Two Quizzes 20 20
Walks and Class Participation 10 10
Literary Salon 15 10
Final Examination 55 45
Project and Presentation 15
Total: 100 100 points
Location and hotel:
Welcome to “Expatriate Writers in Paris: the Twenties.”
I’ve reserved 4 double rooms (55 euros per night per person) and 2 singles (105 euros per night per person) in the heart of Montparnasse in Paris where the 1920’s and our course “happens.”(Some of the artists and writers we will discuss, stayed at this same hotel.) Please let me know as soon as you register if you will stay at this hotel, or if you plan to stay somewhere else.(If you book another hotel, do book it in Montparnasse, our neighborhood for the class!)
Hotel Delambre
35, rue Delambre
75014 Paris
Tel. (33 0) 1 43 20 66 31
www.hoteldelambre.com
Metro: Vavin, Edgar Quinet, or Montparnasse
Transportation:
Easiest way to travel around Paris is by metro. You can buy a weekly pass, Carte Orange Hebdomandaire, 13.27 euros. It runs from Monday through Sunday for buses and metro (bring a small photo of yourself for ticket). A Carte Visite covers 5 days with access to 70 museums and includes travel to and from airport. If you only want individual metro/bus tickets, you can buy a carnet of 10 tickets(12 euros). We will be using the metro, so you will need tickets; we won’t go to museums as a class, but you will want to individually, and upper level students might visit a museum as part of their projects(keep reading).
If you come from the airport (Charles-de-Gaulle, also called Roissy), you can take the following:
The Air France Airport shuttle to Tour Montparnasse. A ticket is about 14$ one way. (If 4 or more of you are travelling together ask for group discount-15%.) The hotel is a 10 minute walk from Tour Montparnasse.
Bus 350 from airport and Gare de l’Est.
Bus 351 from airport to Nation. Bus costs about 12$
For transportation/prices/maps go to www.letsgo.com/PAR/02-oncein-307 or google our hotel.
Costs:
Students who stay at Hotel Delambre will pay the hotel directly. In addition to the room, breakfast at the hotel is 9 euros, so students might want to skip breakfast and have a coffee &croissant during morning class sessions instead. We will be meeting in cafes and other locations throughout the city. The literary salon will be about 15 euros per person.
First meeting:
We’ll have an orientation on Saturday evening, May 24 at 18:00. We’ll meet in lobby of Hotel Delambre. The first class meeting is on Sunday morning, at 9:00 am ; we’ll meet at the Hotel Delambre and walk to our “classroom,” or as Hemingway wrote, “the best nearest café” where he could write,
Reading&Requirements:
Please begin reading the books and xeroxed material in the following order:
1) Xeroxed Poems: Owen, Pound, Eliot, Cummings (Sunday)
2) ParisFrance Gertrude Stein (Monday, Tuesday).
3) A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway (every day)
excerpt from a Letter (xerox)Hemingway (Tuesday)
4) from Ulysses (xerox) James Joyce (Tuesday)
5) The Sun Also Rises Hemingway (Wednesday)
6) Tender is the Night F.S. Fitzgerald (Tuesday,Thursday)
7) *"Babylon Revisited" Fitzgerald (Thursday)
In addition to the above reading, students must complete the following:
-Two quizzes: in-class, about 30 minutes each--identification and short essay
-A Literary Salon: at a 1920’s location in Paris, 1 and 1/2 hours; role playing. You’re asked to come as a literary figure from the 1920’s- one of our writers, a character in one of the texts, or an historical figure from the 1920’s. Bring a prop- a hat, a long skirt, a tuxedo jacket- something to "transform" yourself.
-Upper Level Project: all UL students are asked to do a project as a substitute and academic equivalent of a tradition term paper. To experience “expatriate writers,” students create project in Paris, and informally present it to the class on; students will receive exact guidelines and suggested topics to complete project at Saturday’s orientation. If you want to draw, paint, sketch, or photograph, bring what you’ll need (even though you DON”T know what you’ll be doing yet; Paris will inspire you. Please do NOT do a project before you come.)
- Final Examination: 2 1/2 hours, identifications and short essays.
*****Class will end on Saturday at approximately 13:00 . Please do not plan departures before then!
Other Information:
Days will be long. Be prepared to walk; wear comfortable shoes but remember Paris is an elegant city. You’ll have one morning and one afternoon off; you'll be at a salon Thursday evening; you’ll need free time for UL projects and study. You’ll want to plan your time carefully; we will see plenty of Paris, but won’t have time for lots of extra sightseeing.
PARIS is divided into twenty arrondissements or neighborhoods( the Hotel Delambre is in the 14th). Parisians say there is one cafe for every nine inhabitants of the city! A café is a meeting place (w e will hold many class meetings in different cafes), a place to grab a sandwich, to have a coffee, to study; you can eat reasonably priced meals in most cafés-- many serve a hot plat du jour ( the day's specialty) or at least a grilled ham and cheese sandwich( Croque Monsieur)or grilled cheese with ham and an egg( Croque Madame).
If you only want a coffee, stand at the bar, since you’ll be charged for “sitting.’ In the more famous arrondissements- on the Champs-Elyssees or on Blvd. St. Germain, for example, sitting down doubles or nearly triples the price of a drink. Be warned.
A helpful guide to the city is Pariscope which comes out every Wednesday; it has a section in English, costs 1 euro, and covers all events in Paris including opening times and prices of museums. (It has a section in English).
I look forward to meeting you on Saturday evening, May 24th at 18:00 in the lobby of Hotel Delambre , 35 rue Delambre, Paris 14e (Metro: Vavin, Edgar Quinet, or Montparnasse).
A bientot! (See you soon!)
Pauline Fry
paulinefry@mac.com
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