1:00-2:15P   TR   WH 114

	This course will examine English, Irish, and American Culture
during the Cold War, concentrating particularly on the 1950s. We will all
read several historical accounts of the period (David Painter's brief
history THE COLD WAR, for example), then concentrate on four sites: post
WW TWO London, Dublin, Paris, and New York's "Beat Culture."  So, for
example, we will read two hallmark novels of the Beat period - Jack
Kerouac's ON THE ROAD and William S. Burroughs' controversial NAKED LUNCH
- along with poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane DiPrima, and Allen
Ginsberg. The sexually charged subversiveness of this work will lead us
both to post war sexology (Kinsey, Wolfenden) and the McCarthy HUAC
hearings, to Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. We will also read and
watch famous "spy" texts of the period: Ian Felming's FROM RUSSIA WITH
LOVE and several films of Alfred Hitchcock.

	The course will therefore attempt to diagnose the ways in which
artists responded to the horrors of WW TWO and the conventions of a
containment culture after the War that too often equated political
ideology with sexual repression.