CSP 64 Urban Fictions: The Modern City in Literature and Other Arts

This course will examine texts of fiction, poetry, essay, music, film and graphic arts that have as their subject the problems and promise of urban life in major world-cities of the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the cities we may explore through their creative representation are London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Mexico City. Field study in Los Angeles may be incorporated as pertinent events or opportunities come up.