University of Florida Paris Research Center Intensive Study Abroad over Spring Break March 11-17, 2007

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1 University of Florida Paris Research Center Intensive Study Abroad over Spring Break March 11-17, 2007 Americans in Paris (ENC 4956, 2 Credits) Dr. Andrew Gordon agordon@ufl.edu This course will study Americans' changing views of Paris as reflected in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentiethcentury American literature and in selected Hollywood films set in Paris. The purpose is to gain increased understanding of American and French culture through studying Franco-American interaction in American literature and film. Students will be encountering Paris, perhaps for the first time, and through the readings, films, and your own writing can compare your responses to the city to those of many generations of Americans who loved Paris. Readings (to be completed before arrival) Portrait de Gertrude Stein, Picasso, 1906 The course packet consists of a chapter from Hemingway s novel The Sun Also Rises: a few chapters from his memoir of Paris, A Moveable Feast; Saul Bellow s My Paris and selections from Bellow s last novel, Ravelstein, which opens in Paris; and selections from Kerouac s memoir, Satori in Paris. Selections from Americans in Paris, ed. Adam Gopnik: Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Mary Stevenson; Abigail Adams, Letters from Auteuil; Thomas Jefferson, Two Letters; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nathaniel Hawthorne, from The French Notebooks; Mark Twain, from Innocents Abroad; Henry James; Frederick Douglass; Sherwood Anderson ; Edith Wharton, The Look of Paris ; Langston Hughes, from The Big Sea; William Faulkner, Four Letter from Paris; F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Babylon Revisited"; Gertrude Stein, from Paris, France; Malcolm Cowley; Anita Loos; Henry Miller, Walking Up and Down in China ; Janet Flanner, Letter from Paris ; Oscar Hammerstein; Sylvia Beach; Irwin Shaw, from Remembrance of Things Past; Art Buchwald, from First Days in Paris; James Thurber, "The First Time I Saw Paris"; A.J. Liebling, "An Appetite for Paris"; Richard Wilbur; Dawn Powell; James Baldwin; Diana Vreeland

2 Films (to be completed before arrival, or through other arrangements) An American in Paris, Vicente Minnelli, 1951 Jefferson in Paris, James Ivory, 1995 Le Divorce, James Ivory, 2003 Before Sunset, Richard Linklater, 2004 Requirements: 1) Attendance and participation in class and on field trips. 40% 2) Ten short response papers (one-two pages each) to the reading, to the viewing, and to the student s own experiences of Paris. Due by the end of the semester. 40% 3) One four-five page research paper. Due by the end of the semester. 20% The field trips will be walking tours, following the routes described in Hemingway s A Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises, and visiting Paris cafés and restaurants favored by The Lost Generation, such as the Closerie des Lilas and Café Select, and 27 Rue de Fleurus, where Gertrude Stein held her literary salons, and some of the places mentioned by Bellow, such as the Hotel Crillon and the Café de Flore.

3 Tentative Schedule of Site Visits Sunday, March 11 3:30 PM -4:30 PM Reception at the Paris Research Center (Grande Salle, Reid Hall) - Welcome information: Dr. Gayle Zachmann, Director, UF Paris Research Center - Logistic information: Rachel Gora, Coordinator of Logistics, UF Paris Research Center 5:00 PM 6:45 PM Group Dinner, Chez Fernand, 9, rue Christine, 6 th arr. (Metro: Odéon) Monday, March 12 10:00 AM 12:00 PM Orientation at the Paris Research Center, Grande Salle, Reid Hall - Orientation: Dr. Gayle Zachmann, Director, UF Paris Research Center - Individual course meetings 1:00 PM 2:00 PM Paris Story (45 minute film on Paris) 3:00 PM 4:00 PM Introduction to Montparnasse, led by Dr. Gayle Zachmann - Au Closerie des Lilas ; 171 bd Montparnasse ; :00 PM 5:00 PM The Lost Generation in Montparnasse - Rue Notre Dame des Champs, Blvd du Montparnasse, Rue Delambre 8:00 PM Group Dinner at Crêperie Le Vieux Journal (17, rue Brea; 6 th arrondissement; Metro: Vavin) Tuesday, March 13 10:00 AM 10:20 AM Paris Research Center, short talk 10:20 PM-1:30 PM Hemingway walk (from The Sun Also Rises) - Notre Dame, Ile de la Cité - Hemingway s apartment, 74 rue de Cardinal Lemoine - Café, Place de la Contrescarpe - Val de Grace, Blvd du Montparnasse 1:30 PM 2:30 PM Lunch on your own 2:30 PM 5:00 PM Père Lachaise Cemetery (gravesite of Jim Morrison and others) Dinner on your own

4 11:00 PM Jazz Club, Caveau des Oubliettes, 52 rue Galande ; 5th arrondissement ; Metro : St. Michel Wednesday, March 14 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM Luxembourg Gardens Gertrude Stein s apartment, 27 rue de Fleurus, 6th 11:00 AM 12:15 PM Université de Paris 3, (M: Cluny-Sorbonne) Patrick Badonnel, Professor, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) - William Styron and Paris 12:15 PM 1:30 PM Group Lunch Au Vallée des Rois ; 11, rue Xavier Privas ; 5th Arrondissement (Metros: St. Michel ; Cluny La Sorbonne) 2:00 PM 4:30PM Universite de Paris 7 (M: Sully-Morland) Robert Silhol, Professor, Université de Paris VII Musée Picasso 5:30 PM 7:30 PM Bateaux Mouches (Seine boat ride, as in Before Sunset) Thursday, March 15 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM Paris Research Center, Saul Bellow s Paris 10:30 AM 12:30 PM Hemingway s Right Bank - Place de l Opera - Hemingway s Bar at the Ritz Hotel 12:30 PM 1:30 PM Lunch on your own 1:30 PM 3:00 PM Bellow s Paris - Place de la Concorde - Rue St. Honoré, rue de Rivoli, Palais Royal 3:00 PM 5:00 PM Musée du Louvre Dinner on your own Friday, March 16 10:00 AM 12:30 PM Thomas Jefferson Walk (M: Charles de Gaulle-Étoile)

5 - Champs-Elysées Walk from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde to the Hotel de Salm (next to the Musée d Orsday) 12:30 PM 1:30 PM Lunch on your own 1:30 PM 3:30 PM Musée d Orsay 7:00 PM 9:00 PM Farewell group dinner; Brasserie Fernand; 127 bd du Montparnase; 6 th arrondissement (Metro: Vavin)