Writing
California
Primary
texts (excerpts
from the following works):
Henry
Miller: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch
Jack
Kerouac: The Dharma Bums; Big Sur
Gary
Snyder: Riprap & Cold
Mountain Poems; A
Place
in Space
John
Muir: The Mountains of California; My First Summer in the Sierra
Barry
Lopez: Crossing Open Ground
Alfred
Kroeber: Handbook of the Indians of California
Theodora
Kroeber: Ishi in Two Worlds; Ishi
- Last of his Tribe
Ursula
K. LeGuin: Always Coming Home
List of other
"California Fiction"
Theory:
John Brinckerhoff
Jackson: A
Sense of
Place, a Sense of Time
Michaels, Reid &
Scherr (eds.): West
of the
West: Imagining California
Lyon, Thomas J. (ed.):
This Incomperable Lande: A Book of American Nature Writing
3/9:
Introduction: Place and specificity in text. (Key
quotes, Gerald Kennedy)
Case: Woody Guthrie:
(If you ain't got the) Do Re Mi
(lyrics) (MP3-file)
(Other
California lyrics)
17/9: Memoirs
and fiction: Big
Sur: Dreams - Case: Henry
Miller & Richard
Brautigan
Texts: Henry
Miller, from Big Sur and The
Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, pp. 1-38 & Richard
Brautigan,
from A Confederate General from Big
Sur, pp. 15-63
24/9: Memoirs
and fiction: Big Sur: Nightmares - Case: Jack
Kerouac
Text: Jack
Kerouac, from Big Sur,
pp. 7-23 + 178-181
(Image of Bixby
Bridge spanning "Raton", i.e. Rainbow Canyon)
1/10: Fiction
and poetry: The poet as conquering hero - Case: Gary
Snyder
Texts: Jack Kerouac, from Dharma Bums,
p. 35-94 & Gary
Snyder, from A
Place in Space, pp. 183-204 & Gary
Snyder, "Riprap"
(a poem)
(Other
Snyder poems on-line) (Snyder capsules and quotes)
(Matterhorn
images)
8/10: Nature
writing - Case: John
Muir
Texts: John
Muir, from My First
Summer in the Sierra, pp. 3-31 & John
Muir, from The Mountains of
California "The
Sierra Nevada", pp. 1-14
(Photoes
and other Muir images)
15/10: Nature
writing - Case: Barry Lopez
(Interview) (Interview)
Texts: Barry Lopez,
from Crossing
Open Ground, "The Stone
Horse" & "Landscape and Narrative"
Additional Lopez resources: Online texts: "A
Literature of Place"; The
Naturalist; We
are shaped by the sound of wind... (on the history of nature
writing); Interview from 1986 - audio file
(Emerson-quote)
22/10:
Anthropology, memoir
and
fiction: Ishi
- California and the past (Alfred
Kroeber/Theodora
Kroeber)
Texts: A.L. Kroeber, from Handbook
of the Indians of California, pp. 336-346 & Theodora
Kroeber, from Ishi in Two Worlds,
pp. 3-23 & Theodora Kroeber, from Ishi
- Last of his Tribe, pp. 156-213 & B. Bower: "Ishi's
Long
Road Home"
(Another
article on Ishi) (Official
report on the remains of Ishi)
NB!! 26/10:
Anthropology and Science Fiction: Always
Coming Home -
California
and
the future
Text: Ursula Kroeber LeGuin
(Interview),
from Always
Coming Home, pp.
1-53 (Small online excerpt)