SOCI 2326 - New York Writers

Arts & Sciences Department
This course explores classic and popular writing by the New Yorkers who have defined the city experience since its founding. The course will cover writing in various genres, from three centuries, and even incorporate some film and music and visual art. These texts (written, visual, and auditory) reveal the manner in which the city informs each specific work, in each case connecting said work to the philosophies, political and historical significance, and business of producing culture in Manhattan. Materials will include but not be limited to Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Paula Fox, Jay McInerney, Jonathan Lethem, and Nicole Krauss.
credit(s): 3
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1100