FINISH Aloft!
In class we'll talk about the last half of the book. You'll also get your in-class essays back, and we'll discuss your plans for expanding them into your third full-length paper.
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On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
Aloft, by Chang-rae Lee
A Writer's Reference, by Diana Hacker
Transportation and the American Imagination
Course Information
Brooklyn College of the City of New York
English 2 (MW5B)
Fall 2008
Room: 207A, Whitehead Hall
M, W 5:05-6:20
English 2 (MW5B)
Fall 2008
Room: 207A, Whitehead Hall
M, W 5:05-6:20
Instructor Information
Beth Schwartzapfel
beth_schwartzapfel [at] yahoo.com
Office: Boylan 2311
Office Hours: W 6:30-7:30
beth_schwartzapfel [at] yahoo.com
Office: Boylan 2311
Office Hours: W 6:30-7:30
Required texts
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
Aloft, by Chang-rae Lee
A Writer's Reference, by Diana Hacker
Also check out the books from which the pieces in our reader are drawn
- "Song of the Open Road" by Walt Whitman
- Leaves of Grass
- "Necropolis: The Bronx and the Politics of Abandonment" by Jeff Chang
- Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
- "Robert Moses, A Revisionist Take" by Phillip Lopate
- Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan
- "Eastward" by William Least Heat-Moon
- Blue highways: a journey into America
- "Why I Ride" by Jana Richman
- In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction, edited by Lee Gutkind
- (Richman eventually expanded the essay into a full-length memoir, Riding in the Shadows of Saints: A Woman's Story of Motorcycling the Mormon Trail)
- "The Annihilation of Time and Space" and "Lessons of the Golden Spike," by Rebecca Solnit
- River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
- Excerpts from "Motor Lodge Nocturne" and "The Steedriving Theory of Life" by Colson Whitehead
- (This is not in the reader but you will get handouts later in the semester)
- John Henry Days
- "Coal Train" by John McPhee
- Uncommon Carriers
- "Flight," by Barry Lopez
- Vintage Lopez
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