Mr. Bannister Fall 1994
 
 
This seminar will focus on the period since the 1910s, with reference to the concepts of "modernism" and "postmodernism." Drawing on materials from the social sciences, literature, religion, and popular culture, it will attempt to provide a context for understanding developments and controversies in these fields, rather than present a complete history of each . Attention will be given to both the social context in which ideas are generated and disseminated, and the internal structure of debates. Weekly meetings will generally include the presentation of two or three papers, and discussion of the readings done in common (see "PRIM." and "SEC."). Primary readings, where possible, will include autobiographical accounts of the intellectual development of representative individuals.
 
Although the syllabus is organized chronologically, a number of themes recur in suggested topics. The most important of these are:
 
(1) the nature and role of the social sciences (the rise of value free "objectivism" and the cult of the expert; Margaret Mead and the "culture concept; social science "documentary" in the 1930s; sociological attacks on consumerism and mass society in the 1950s; social science and race; and the feminist critique of social science).
 
(2) the debate over the literary "canon" (Cowley and modernism, New Humanists and Genteel Tradition, the Southern Agrarians and the "New Criticism", Modernism: Orthodoxy or Subversive?, multiculturalism and the "canon")
 
(3) the political and social functions of religion (Fundamentalism in the Scopes trial; Niebuhr and "Protestant Realism"; Black Muslims and Malcolm X; the emergence of the "Christian Right" in the 1970s-80s).
 
(4) the relation of "high" to "middlebrow" and "popular" culture, the cultural consequences of changing media (film, radio, TV) and consumerism.
 
(5) "conservative," "liberal," and "radical" social theory.
 
WEEKLY readings are deliberately kept to a minimum in the hope that you will (a) focus on the primary texts noted; and (b) explore through Tripod, Wilson search, and our rich collection of older periodicals for additional articles, reviews etc. FOR SUGGESTED READINGS FOR WEEKLY PAPER, SEE "BIBLIOGRAPHY" for Hist 137. Since the seminar is being given for the first time, additional suggestions are welcomed
 
The weekly schedule is as follows:
 
Week
 
I-IX MODERNISM
 
I. Defining Modernism: The Innocent Rebellion and the Assault on the Genteel Tradition
 
II. Literary Cross currents in the 1920s (Mencken, Middlebrow, Modernism)
 
III. The American South and the Return to Tradition in the 1920s
 
IV. Social Science from Control to Therapy
 
V. Consumerism and Mass Culture 1920s-1940s
 
VI. Celebrating the Masses: Culture and the Left 1930s
 
VII. Modernism as Orthodoxy: MidCentury "Consensus" :1940s-50s
 
VIII. African American Thought 1920s-1960s
 
IX. From "Old" to "New" Left
 
X. -XIII POSTMODERNISM
 
X. Defining Postmodernism
 
XI. The 1960s and Its Legacy
 
XII. Conservative Crosscurrents in 1970s-1980s
 
XIII. Varieties of Postmodernism: 1980s-1990s
 
 
The following titles have been order for the bookstore and are recommended for purchase (marked * on the syllabus).
 
May, Henry The End of American Innocence
Pells, Richard H., Radical visions and American dreams (1973)
Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return
Degler, In Search of Human Nature
Singal, Joseph , The War Within (1982),
Maren, Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America 1890-1950 (New York, 1989)Graebner, William, The age of doubt : American thought and culture in the 1940s
 
Although there is no one satisfactory textbook, Douglas Tallack, Twentieth-century America (1991) is suggestive on a number of points and is thus cited among recommended (REC) readings where appropriate [Copy on Honors shelf]
 
 
I. Background: Background: The Innocent Rebellion and the Assault on the Genteel Tradition
 
PRIM: R. Bourne, "History of a Literary Radical" [photocopy Binder)
G. Santayana, The Genteel Tradtion"[photocopy Binder)
V.W. Brooks, America's Coming of Age, ch. 1 "Highbrow and Lowbrow" [photocopy Binder)
 
SEC. *H. May, The End of American Innocence (entire book)
Rubin, Joan Shelley, "Henry F. May's The end of American Innocence," Reviews in American History, 18 (March 1990), 142-49
Daniel Joseph Singal, The War Within (1982), preface [or for longer version see his "American Modernism," American Quarterly 39 (1987)
 
REC. *Pells, Richard H., Radical visions and American dreams (1973) , ch. 1
Wertheim, Arthur Frank, The New York Little Renaissance : iconoclasm, modernism, and nationalism in American culture, 1908-1917 (1976) [McCabe NX511.N4 W47] [for comparison to May]
 
Discussion will focus both on the methodology of May's End of American Innocence (as well as the substance of his argument); and on recent developments in the field, especially the relation of "intellectual" to "cultural" history as it has developed in the past decade. For a brief discussion of the latter see the Introduction" to The Power of culture, ed. Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993)
 
General Literature. As introduction to the history and methodology of American intellectual History, you may wish to look at some of the following during the term
(1) History
J. Higham, "Rise of American Intellectual History," Am. Hist. Rev. 56 (1951), 453-71
_________, "American Intellectual History," Am. Q. 13 (1961)
R. Skotheim, "The Writing of Am. Histories of Ideas," J. Hist. I.25 (1964), 257-
___________, American Intellectual History and Historians (1966)
 
(2) Methodology (recent discussions only)
Bouwsma, William. "Intellectual History in the 1980s," J. Interdisciplinary History 12
Harlan, David, "Intellectual History and the Return of Literature," AHR 94 (June 1989), 581-609.
Hollinger, David, "The Return of the Prodigal: The Persistence of Historical Knowing," AHR 94 (June 1989), 21 [with reply by Harlan].
Russell Jacoby, "A New Intellectual History," American Historical Review 97 (Apr. 1992): 405-24 [on European]
 
(3) Overview histories: 20th century Intellectual History
Bender, Thomas, New York Intellect (1987)
Brookeman, Christopher, American culture and society since the 1930s (New York : Schocken Books, 1984.) [McCabe E169.1 .B79825 1984]
Commager, H.S. The American Mind [1890-1950] (1950) [vintage "progressive" or Whig version of 20th century thought]
Cotkin, George, Reluctant Modernism...1880-1900 (1992)
Perry, Lewis, Intellectual Life in America (1984)
Tallack, Douglas., Twentieth-century America : the intellectual and cultural context (London ; New York : Longman, 1991).
 
II. Literary Crosscurrents in the 1920s (Mencken, Middlebrow, Modernism)
 
PRIM. *Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return
 
SEC. Hollinger, "Knower and Artificer," American Quarterly, 39 (Spr,. 1987), 37-55
Rubin, Joan S. " Between culture and consumption," The Power of culture, ed. Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993)
 
REC. Fitzgerald, F. Scott , "Echoes of the Jazz Age", in The Crack-Up [McCabe PS3511.I9 C7
Lears, R. Jackson, "Looking for the White Spot,"The Power of culture
Tallack, Twentieth-century America , ch. 4
 
SUGGESTED TOPICS
 
The 'New Humanists': Defending the Genteel Tradition
 
Griefer, B., "The Conservative Pose in America: I. Babbitt and the Search for Standards," Western Pol. Q. 24 (Mar. 1971)
Hoffman, Frederick, The 1920s, ch. 4
Lora, Ron Conservative Minds in America, ch. 5
 
*For examples of the New Humanism see Humanism and America; essays on the outlook of modern civilisation, edited by Norman Foerster (1930] B821 .F6 ; I. Babbitt, Rousseau and Romanticism and his Democracy and Leadership; and The essential Paul Elmer More;, Edited with an introd. and notes by Byron C. Lambert.(1972) [PS2431 .A6 1972]. For an attack on it see C. Hartley Grattan, ed. The Critique of Humanism (1930).
 
 
Henry L. Mencken: Conservative as Cultural Radical?
 
Cowing, "HLM: Curdled Progressive, " Ethics 69 (1959): 255-67
Hobson, Fred C., 1943-, Mencken : a life (1994) [McCabe PS3525.E43 Z467 1994
Hobson, Fred C., Serpent in Eden: H. L. Mencken and the South(1974]) [PS3525.E43 Z583
Martin, Edward A. , H.L. Mencken and the debunkers (Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1984) [Magill PS3525.E43 Z675 1984 ]
Mayfield, Sara, , The constant circle; H. L. Mencken and his friends.( New York, Delacorte Press [1968])[ McCabe PS3525.E43 Z68
Nolte, William H., H. L. Mencken, literary critic[1966][Magill PS3525.E43 Z73
Stenerson, Douglas C., H. L. Mencken: iconoclast from Baltimore (Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1971]) [ McCabe PS3525.E43 Z83 ]
 
*paper should focus on either Mencken as a cultural critic or as social theorist, using his multivolme Prejudices and other writings
 
 
II. Modernism and Middlebrow -con't
 
Middlebrow/High Brow Culture
 
Rubin, Joan S., The making of middle/brow culture (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1992)
Horowitz, Joseph, 1, Understanding Toscanini : how he became an American culture-god and helped create a new audience for old music ( New York : A.A. Knopf, 1987) [S U-Hill Swarth LD5199 1970 .H78 U56 1987]
Levine, Lawrence HighBrow/Lowbrow, pt. 3
 
 
*paper should consider not only what "middle brow" was/is, as described by Rubin, but also how the distinctions between "levels of culture developed. For the later see the following cited in note 1 of Rubin's article, esp. Greenberg et al,' The State of American Writing," Partisan Review no. 8 (1948), 879; Dwight MacDonald, "Masscult and Midcult," ibid., (fall 1960); and Russell Lynes," Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow," Harper's (Feb. 1949). For update on the latter see John Brooks, , "Highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow, now." [interview with R. Lynes] American Heritage v. 34 (June/July '83) p. 42-7. For recent discussions see Tad Friend, "In praise of middlebrow," Utne Reader (Sept./Oct. '92) p. 77-83, and his "The case for middlebrow," New Republic v. 206 (Mar. 2 '92) p. 24-7.; and Radway, Janice, "The scandal of the middlebrow: the Book-of-the-Month Club, class fracture, and cultural authority," The South Atlantic Quarterly v. 89 (Fall '90) p. 703-36.
 
Malcolm Cowley: The Road to Modernism
 
Bak, Hans, Malcolm Cowley : the formative years (Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1993.)[S McCabe PS3505.O956 Z58 1993. For a brief overview of Cowley's entire career by the same author "Malcolm Cowley," Dictionary of Literary Biography , Year book 1989 pp. 179ff. [McCabe Ref. PN451. +D521. 1989]
Schwartz, Lawrence , "Malcolm Cowley's Path to Wiliam Faulkner," Journal of American Studies 16 : 2 (1982) 229-42
Shi, David "Malcolm Cowley and Literary New York, Virginia Q. Rev. 58 (aut. 1982), 575-93
Simpson, Lewis P., Malcolm Cowley and Exile's return. ( University of Mo. Press, 1993) [ord. 9/94]
_______, "Malcolm Cowley and the American Writer," Sewanee Review 84 (Spr 1976), 221-47
_______, "Cowley's Odyssey," Sewanee Review 89 (fall 1981), 520-39
 
*For a highly critical view of Cowley see Kenneth Lynn, "Malcolm Cowley Forgets," Airline to Seattle , 163-71 . Other recent assessment of Cowley include Clark, William Bedford., "Where ideology leaves off: Cowley, Warren, and Faulkner revisited", Studies in the Novel v. 24 (Fall '92) p. 298-308 ;Faulkner, Donald W., Malcolm Cowley and American writing. The Sewanee Review v. 98 (Spring '90) p. 222-35 ; and Lewis, R. W. B, "Malcolm Cowley," Literary reflections .L375 1993 (Northeastern Univ. Press, 1993 [ B Canaday PN511
 
 
III. The American South and the Return to Tradition in the 1920s
 
PRIM.Twelve Southerners, I'll take my stand; the South and the agrarian tradition, (Gloucester, Mass. : Peter Smith , 1976, [c1930] , Introduction, ch 1 (Ransom), 2 (Davidson )
 
SEC. *Daniel Joseph Singal, The War Within (1982), chs. 7, 8, 10
 
REC. King, Richard H., A Southern Renaissance : the cultural awakening of the American South, 1930-1955 (New York : Oxford University Press, 1980) [McCabe PS261 .K45
 
FILM: "Inherit the Wind"
 
SUGGESTED TOPICS:
 
The Southern Agrarians
 
Foshee, Andrew W., "The political economy of the Southern Agrarian tradition.," Modern Age 27 (Spring '83) 161-70
Karanikas, Alexander., Tillers of a myth; southern agrarians as social and literary critics. (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1966.) [McCabe PS221 .K27]
William C. Harvard, ed A band of prophets : the Vanderbilt Agrarians after fifty years)[Canaday F209 .I3732 1982
Singal, War Within, op. cit.
 
Regionalism: Howard Odum
 
Brazil, Wayne Douglas., Howard W. Odum : the building years, 1884-1930 (1975.) [S McCabe Coll.Lib. Film 373
O'Brien, Michael, The idea of the American South, 1920-1941 (Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press, c1979.) []McCabe F215 .O2
Singal, War Within,ch. 10
Sosna, Morton, In search of the silent South : southern liberals and the race issue (New York : Columbia University Press, 1977) [Magill F215 .S66 : see RCB for copy]
Tullos, Allen, The politics of regional development: Lewis Mumford and Howard W.Odum. (Oxford Univ. Press, 1990)
Thomas, William B., "Conservative currents in Howard Washington Odum's agenda for social reform in southern race relations, " Phylon 45 (June '84):121-34
______, Odum's Social Theories in Transition, 1910-30," American Sociologist 16 (1981): 25-34 [see RCB for copy]
Tindall, George, "The Significance of HWO to Southern History," Journal of Southern History 24: 285-307.
III. The American South and the Return to Tradition in the 1920s--con't
 
Fundamentalism : From Scopes to Creationism
 
Furniss, Norman F., The fundamentalist controversy, 1918-1931. (1954) [Magill BT78 .F98]
Gatewood, Willard B., "From Scopes to Creation Science," So. Atlantic Q 84 (aut `1984): 363-83
Gould, Stephen Jay, , "William Jennings Bryan's last campaign: scientists and their acolytes are partly to blame for the lengthy and bitter struggle against creationism.,"Natural History v. 96 (Nov. '87) p. 16+ [Cornell]
Grabiner, Judith and Peter Miller, "Effects of the Scopes Trial," Science 185 (1974): 832-37.
Harding, Susan, "Representing fundamentalism, "Social Research v. 58 (Summer '91) p. 373-93
Lessl, Thomas M, The Scopes trial: "Darrow vs. Bryan" vs. "Bryan vs. Darrow", " in Oratorical Encounters( Greenwood Press, 1988) ,p. 17-27 [Tripod no]
Numbers, Ronald L., The creationists (New York : A. A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992.[ Haverford BS651 .N85 1992]
 
*paper may also include later "uses' of Scopes, including in the film "Inherit the Wind." On the latter see Duffy, Susan, , "The origin of speeches: Inherit the wind, Irving Stone and theScopes trial," American Notes & Queries v. 22 (Sept./Oct. '83) p. 14-17
IV. Social Science from Control to Therapy
 
PRIM. W.F. Ogburn, Social Change, , pt 4, ch 1"The Hypothesis of Cultural Lag" pt. 5, ch. 5 "Suggestions for Better Adjustment" .
Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa chs. 1, 10, 14
 
SEC. *Degler, In Search of Human Nature , chs. 3-8
Graebner, William, The engineering of consent : democracy and authority in twentieth-century America (Madison, Wis.;University of Wisconsin Press, 1987) [McCabe HM291 .G659 1987
J. Burnham, "The New Psychology: from Narcissism to Social Control," in Change and Continuity, ed. J.Braeman
 
FILM: Margaret Mead [video] (rough cut).
 
REC. R. Bannister, Sociology and Scientism (1987), Preface, chs. 8-11 Epilogue.
Birnbaum, L., "Behaviorism in the 1920s," American Quarterly 7 (1955): 15-30
Lasch, Christopher, Haven in a heartless world : the family besieged (New York : Basic Books, c1977) [McCabe HQ518 .L27 ]
Ehrenreich, Barbara., For her own good : 150 years of the experts' advice to women (1979, c1978.) [ S McCabe Honors Wmst 091: Capstone Colloquium]
Napoli, Donald S., Architects of adjustment : the history of the psychological profession in the United States (Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press, 1981)[McCabe BF108.U5 N36
 
SUGGESTED TOPICS:
 
The "Culture concept" and Margaret Mead
 
Degler, In Search of Human Nature, op. cit.
Howard, Jane, Margaret Mead, a life (New York,1984)[GN21.M36 H69 1984
Mabee, Carleton, "Mead and Behavioral Scientists in WW II," J. History of the Behavioral Sciences 23 (1988): 3-13
Mead, Margaret, Blackberry winter; my earlier years (New York, Morrow, 1972)[GN21.M36 A32].
Rosenberg, Rosalind, Beyond Separate Spheres, ch.8
Yans, Virginia, "Science, Democracy and Ethics: Mobilizing Culture and Personality for World War II, History of Anthropology 4 (1986): 184-217
 
*for background on the history of anthropology see Darnell, R, "Culture and Personality, History of Anthropology 4 (1986): 156-83.
 
 
William F. Ogburn, Cultural Lag, and the Recent Social Trends project
 
Bannister, Sociology and Scientism, chs. 11-12
Huff, Toby, "Theoretical Innovation in Science: The Case of WFO," American Journal of Sociology 79 (1973).
Karl, Barry, "Presidential Planning and Social Science Research," Perspectives in American History, 3 (1969):347-407.
 
*paper could focus Recent Social Trends. **for contemporary discussion of the "cultural lag" concept see Social Forces, 2: 671-6; American Sociological Review, 1:89-102, 752-60; 2:320-27; 10: 786-91.
IV. Social Science from Control to Therapy--continued
 
 
Childrearing: From Behaviorism to Dr. Spock
 
Birnbaum, op. cit. esp. last few pages.
Cleverley, John F., Visions of childhood : influential models from Locke to Spock (New York, N.Y. : Teachers College Press, c1986) [ McCabe LA11 .C545 1986]
G. Steirs, "Freudianism and Childrearing in the 1920s," American Q. 20 (1968): 759-67
Graebner, William, "The Unstable World of Benjamin Spock," Journal of Am Hist 67 (1980): 612-29
A.M. Solman, "The Humanization of the American Child: B. Spock as a Popularizer of Psychoanlaytic Thought," J. History of the Behavioral Sciences 9 (1979): 258.
Zuckerman, M. "Dr. Spock the Confidence Man," (photocopy file).
 
*for Spock's views see his , The common sense book of baby and child care.( New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce [1946]) [McCabe RJ61 .S76] and , Spock on Spock : a memoir of growing up with the century / (1989.) [Peace JX1962.S71 A3 1989] . An earlier biography is Bloom, Lynn Z., Doctor Spock : biography of a conservative radical (1972) [Peace JX1962.S71 B5 ]
 
 
V.Mass Culture and Consumption 1920s-1940s
 
PRIM; Advertising Photopack [binder]
Robert and Helen Lynd, Middletown
 
SEC.Susman, Warren, Culture as history (1984) chs. 7, 8,
Tallack, Twentieth-century America ch. 1 "Cinema"
Lears and Fox ed. The Culture of consumption : critical essays in American history,1880-1980 ( New York : Pantheon Books, c1983) , essays by Lears, :From Salvation to Self-Realization," and Fox, "Epitaph for Middletown"
 
REC. Lizabeth Cohen,"The class experience of mass consumption," in The Power of culture : critical essays in American history , edited by Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears.(Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993)
Essays
Horowitz, Daniel, The morality of spending : attitudes toward the consumer society in America, 1875-1940 (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1985) H Magill HC110.C6 H58 1985
 
 
SUGGESTED TOPICS
 
Advertising
Ewen, Stuart, Captains of consciousness : advertising and the social roots of the consumer culture (New York : McGraw-Hill, c1976)[S McCabe HF5813.U6 E94]
Ewen, Stuart, Channels of desire : mass images and the shaping of American consciousness (New York : McGraw-Hill, 1982) viii, 312 p. [Bryn Mawr] Canaday HF5813.U6 E95 1982
Fox, Stephen, The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (New York, 1984), [Hf5813.U6F66]
Marchand, Roland, Advertising the American dream : making way for modernity, 1920-1940 (Berkeley : University of California Press, c1985 [S McCabe HF5813.U6 M26 1985
Pope, Daniel, The making of modern advertising (New York : Basic Books, c1983 [McCabe HF5821 .P64 1983 ]
V.Mass Culture and Consumption 1920s-1940s-con't
 
The Movies
 
Gabler, Neal., An empire of their own :how the Jews invented Hollywood ( New York : Crown Publishers, c1988)[ Magill PN1993.5.U65 G28 1988
May, Lary Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry (1980).
 
Ray, Robert B., A certain tendency of the Hollywood cinema, 1930-1980 (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1985) [McCabe PN1993.5.U6 R38 1985
Schatz, Thomas, The genius of the system : Hollywood filmmaking in the studio era (New York : Pantheon, 1988.) [McCabe PN1993.5.U65 S3 1988
Sklar, Robert. Movie-Made America (New York, 1975), chs. 1-4.
 
*note: these are only a sample of the 83 titles on tripod under "Hollywood" and "history." If you wish to work on a special theme, we can discuss possibilities, preferably using movies on Video in McCabe.
 
An American Community at the Dawn of the Consumer Age: Middletown
 
*paper should assess Fox's arghument with reference to Helen and Robert Lynd Middletown and Middletown InTransition
 
Addtional topics (on fileserver) (1) Radio
VI. Celebrating the Masses: Culture and the Left 1930s
 
PRIM. James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men [Walker Evans picturesand enough of text to get a flavor of the work]]
Mike Gold, "Why I am a Communist," "The Second American Renaissance," "John Reed" [binder]
 
SEC. *Richard Pells, Radical Visions, Radical Dreams cs. 2-8
Strange, *Maren, Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America 1890-1950 (New York, 1989)
Susman, Culture as History, pp. 150-83.
 
REC Aaron, Daniel, , Writers on the left (New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1961]) [McCabe PS228.C6 A2
Madden., David ed, Proletarian writers of the thirties, (Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press [1968]).
Trachtenberg, Alan, Reading American Photographs: Images as History Mathew
Brady to Walker Evans (New York: Hill and Wang, 1989) [[TR820.2.T73.1989]
William Stott, Documentary Expression, chs 1-4
 
SUGGESTED TOPICS:
 
Proletarian Realism: (focus on Mike Gold and/or Joseph Freeman)
 
Bloom, James D., Left letters : the culture wars of Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman (New York : Columbia University Press, c1992)[Magill PS3513.O29 Z59 1992]
Foley, Barbara, Radical representations : politics and form in U.S. proletarian fiction, 1929-1941 (Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.) [Magill PS374.P6 F64 1993]
Madden, David, Proletarian writers of the thirties, (Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press [1968)McCabe PS379 .M258]
Murphy, James F. (James Francis), The proletarian moment : the controversy over leftism in literature (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1991) [Magill PS228.C6 M87 1991]
 
*primary sources: Gold, Michael, The hollow men (1941)[McCabe PS221 .G6 ] and his, Jews without money (c1938)[F128.9.J5 G6] ; and Freeman, Joseph, Never call retreat(1943) [ PS3511.R4873 N45x ] ; and Freeman, Joseph, An American testament : a narrative of rebels and romantics (New York ,1936) ,
 
 
"Documentary" Photography: Margaret Bourke White
 
Barrett, Wayne M., "Margaret Bourke-White: new vistas in photojournalism.," USA Today (Periodical) v. 118 (Sept. '89) p. 54-63
William Stott, Documentary Expression
Curtis, James , Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered (1989)
Snyder, Robert E., "Margaret Bourke-White and the Communist witch hunt., "Journal of American Studies v. 19 (Apr. '85) p. 5-25
Strange, Maren, Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America 1890-1950 (New York, 1989)
Goldberg, Vicki, Margaret Bourke-White : a biography (New York : Harper & Row, c1986)[McCabe TR140.B6 G65 1986
Silverman, Jonathan., For the world to see : the life of Margaret Bourke-White (1983) [S Peace Oversize + TR140.B6 S59 1983
VI. Celebrating the Masses: Culture and the Left 1930s --con't
 
Social Science as "Documentary"
 
Stott, Documentary Expression, chs. 8-9
 
*paper should compare and contrast any two or three of the studies Stott considers with refrence to his theory of documentary, and Stange's thesis. Works discused by Stott and available in the Tricollege libraries include: Warner, W. Lloyd, The social life of a modern community (1941) [McCabe HN57 .W3]; Bakke, E. Wight, ( 1934) [Canaday 331.137 B17 ]; Minehan, Thomas, Boy and girl tramps of America(1934]) [Canaday339 M66 ]; Cohn, David L. , Where I was born and raised.(1948) ["The first section. was published in 1935, under title Godshakes creation [Magill E185.93.M6 C6 ; Shaw, Clifford Robe, The natural history of a delinquent career (1931) [ McCabe HV9106.C4 S5
 
Hollywood and the Left
 
Dick, Bernard F., Radical innocence : a critical study of the Hollywood Ten (Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1989) [McCabe PN1998.2 .D5 1989]
Leab, Daniel J., "How red was my valley: Hollywood, the cold war film, and I married a Communist., " Journal of Contemporary History v. 19 (Jan. '84) p. 59-88
Murphey, Dwight D., "The 'Hollywood blacklist" in historical context, The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies v. 18 (Tripod no]Fall '93)
Rosenbaum, Jonathan., "Guilty by omission: effects of Hollywood blacklist upon films; case of N. Ray, C. Endfield, and J. Berry, Film Comment v. 27 (Sept./Oct. '91) p. 42-6+
Smoodin, Eric, "Watching the skies: Hollywood, the 1950s, and the Soviet threat., " Journal of American Culture v. 11 (Summer '88) p. 35-40 [Tripod no]
 
*see especially films in McCabe on Video
 
 
VII. Modernism as Orthodoxy: The 1950s "Consensus"
 
Prim: Trilling, "On the Teaching of Modern Literature,"from Beyond Culture (1961)
 
SEC.*Graebner, William, The age of doubt : American thought and culture in the 1940s (Boston : Twayne, 1990, c1991)[McCabe E169.1 .G698 ]
M. Dickstein, The Gates of Eden, ch. 2
Hodgson, Godfrey, America in our time (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976), ch. 4 "The Ideology of the Liberal Consensus"
 
REC. Boyer, Paul S., By the bomb's early light : American thought and culture at the dawn of the atomic age )[Peace E169.12 .B684 1985]
Whitfield, Stephen J.,The culture of the cold war (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1991) [ISBN 0801840813] 0801840821 (pbk.) [H Magill E169.12 .W47 1991]
Tallack, Twentieth-century America , ch. 6
 
SUGGESTED TOPICS:
 
Pop Sociology (Riesman, Whyte, Packard)
 
Horowitz, Daniel, Vance Packard and American Social Criticism (University of North Carolina, 1994)
"Organization man: 'very much alive," Business Week (Nov. 10 '86) p. 92
 
*paper should compare and contrast the critique of consumerism and "mass society" in any two of the authors, with specific reference to Riesman, The Lonely Crowd (1950), Whyte, The Organization Man (1956), and The Hidden Persuaders For background on the appropriation of theories of mass society see Bramson, Leon, The political context of sociology (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1961) [McCabe HM33 .B7]
 
 
The "New Conservatives"
 
Lora, Ronald, Conservatism in America, chs. 11-12
Kirk, Russell.,. The conservative mind, from Burke to Santayana.( Chicago, Regnery, 1953.) [ McCabe Honors Hist 136: Amer Intellect Hist ]
Rossiter, Clinton Lawrence, Conservatism in America (New York : Knopf, 1955.) [McCabe JK31 .R58]
 
*primary sources include Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin, , Conservatism revisited; the revolt against revolt, 1815-1949.( New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1949.) [ McCabe JC501 .V5 ] as well s the Kirk and Rossiter volumes above. McCabe has the National Review on microfilm from vol. 1.
VII. Modernism as Orthodoxy:-con't
 
Reinhold Niebuhr and the "New Liberalism"
 
(1) Niebuhr
 
Fox, Richard Wightman, Reinhold Niebuhr : a biography (New York : Pantheon Books, 1985)[ McCabe Honors Rel 105: Rel & Society ]
 
*Tripod has 60 titles under "Niebuhr" and "Reinhold." Choice depends on which theme(s) you wish to develop. Paper should focus on his political/social ideas from Moral Man to Children of Light.
 
(2) New Liberalism
 
Morton, Marian, The Terrors of Ideological Politics [McCabe E175 .M6]
Pells, Richard H, The liberal mind in a conservative age : American intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s (New York : Harper & Row, c1985) [McCabe E169.12 .P45 1985
 
*paper should focus on Niebuhr's evolution from Moral Man and Immoral Society to Children of Light (1940), or on Niebuhrian elements in the New Liberalism, e.g. Schlesinger's The Vital Center.
 
The Politics of Modernism: Defining the Canon
 
Lauter, Paul,"Whose Culture? Whose Literary? Canons and contexts (New York : Oxford University Press, 1991) , pp. 256-71. [McCabe PS25 .L38 1991]
 
(a) Matthiessen :The Socialist as Modernist
 
Cain, William E., ,"F. O. Matthiessen's labor of translation: from Sarah Orne Jewettto T. S. Eliot., "The South Atlantic Quarterly 87 (Spring '88) p. 355-84
Cain, William E., F.O. Matthiessen and the politics of criticism (Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1988)[McCabe PS29.M35 C35 1988 ]
Gunn, Giles B., F. O. Matthiessen : the critical achievement (Seattle : University of Washington Press, [1975]) [McCabe PS29.M35 G8 ]
Stern, Frederick C., F. O. Matthiessen, Christian Socialist as critic (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1981) [Magill PS29.M35 S8 ]
 
(b) Trilling:Moralism and Modernism
 
Boyers, Robert., Lionel Trilling : negative capability and the wisdom of avoidance (Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1977) [McCabe PS3539.R56 Z6
Klingenstein, Susanne, Jews in the American academy, 1900-1940 : the dynamics of intellectual assimilation (1991) [Canaday E184.J5 K56 1991 [on Trilling]
Krupnick, Mark, , Lionel Trilling and cultural criticism in America (Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1986) [McCabe PS3539.R56 Z85 1986
O'Hara, Daniel T., Lionel Trilling : the work of liberation( Madison, Wis. : University of
Tanner, Stephen L., Lionel Trilling (Boston : Twayne Publishers, c1988) [ McCabePS3539.R56 Z93 1988 ] Wisconsin Press, c1988)[McCabe PS3539.R56 Z87 1988
*paper may focus on either Trilling or Matthiessen, or both
 
VIII. Black and White : African Americans in and on American Culture 1920s-1950s (rev. 11/1/94)
 
PRIM. Frazier, E.F., " La bourgeoisie noire," in Bracey, John H., comp.The Black sociologists: the first half century.,]
Myrdal, American Dilemma, ch. 1
Ellison, Ralph [review of Am. Dilemma," from Shadow and Act ]
Martin Luther King, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" [primary binder]
 
SEC. Fullinwider, S. P.The mind and mood of black America; 20th century thought [by]( 1969.) [McCabe E185.82 .F8 , chs. 5-8
Dickstein, Gates of Eden,. ch. 6
 
REC. Tallack, Twentieth-century America , ch. 7
 
SUGGESTED TOPICS
 
Social Science and African Americans: E.Franklin Frazier to Gunnar Myrdal
 
Fullinwider, Mind and Mood, ch. 5
 
*on Frazier see Platt, Anthony M., E. Franklin Frazier reconsidered (New Brunswick [N.J.] : Rutgers University Press, [c1991]) [Magill HM22.U6 F736 1991; and Dale R. Vlasek, "E. Franklin Frazier and the problem of assimilation," in , Ideas in America's cultures from Republic to mass society , edited by Hamilton Cravens ; (Ames : Iowa State University Press, 1982.) [Magill E169.1 .I34
 
**on Myrdal see Southern, David W., Gunnar Myrdal and Black-white relations : the use and abuse of An American dilemma, 1944-1969 (Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1987.) [Magill E185.6.M953 S68 1987; Jackson, Walter A., Gunnar Myrdal and America's conscience : social engineering and racial liberalism, 1938-1987 (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1990.) [Canaday HN57 .J246 1990
 
Mass Media and African Americans
 
(1) Film
 
Bogle, Donald, Toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks; an interpretive history of Blacks in American films. (New York, Viking Press [1973] [S McCabe PN1995.9.N4 B6 ]
Cripps, Thomas Robert, , Slow fade to black : the negro in American film, 1900-1942 (New York : Oxford University Press, 1977) [ Magill PN1995.9.N4 C7
Cripps, Thomas, Making movies Black : the Hollywood message movie from World War II to the civil rights era (New York : Oxford University Press, 1993) [H Magill PN1995.9.N4 C687 1993]
Guerrero, Ed. , Framing Blackness : the African American image in film ( Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1993) [H Magill PN1995.9.N4 G84 1993
Leab, Daniel J. , From Sambo to Superspade (1975) [see RCB for copy]
 
VIII. Black and White : African Americans in and on American Culture Culture -con't
 
Mass Media and African Americans-con't
 
(2) Radio
 
Ely, Melvin P. The Adventures of Amos and Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon New York: Free Press, 1991 [ISBN 0-02-909502-6]
 
African -Americans and "Modernism"
 
(1) Ralph Ellison
 
(2) Martin Luther King: from Crozier to Birmingham
 
Additional Topics:
 
Black Muslimism from Drew Ali to Malcolm x (and after)
 
 
 
IX. From "Old Left" to the New
 
PRIM. Daniel Bell, "The Mood of Three Generations," The End of Ideology
 
SEC. Dickstein, Gates of Eden, ch. 3
 
REC. Clecak, Peter, Radical paradoxes : dilemmas of the American left: 1945-1970. (New York : Harper & Row, [1973]) [McCabe HN90.R3 C55 1973)
Ross, Andrew, No respect : intellectuals & popular culture (New York : Routledge, 1989.)[McCabe E169.12 .R675 1989] (due 2/95),chs. on Left
Tallack, Twentieth-century America , ch. 5
 
SUGGESTED TOPICS:
 
The Old Left": the New York Intellectuals
 
Bloom, Alexander, Prodigal sons : the New York intellectuals & their world (New York, 1986) [ F128.9.J5 B55 1986
Cooney,Terry A., The Rise of the New Intellectuals: Partisan Review and Its Circle 1934-45 (Madison,Wisc.1986).
Jumonville, Neil, Critical crossings : the New York intellectuals in postwar America (Berkeley : University of California Press, c1991) [ISBN 0520068580 (alk. paper)] [Canaday F128.52 .J86 1990
Wald, A. M. The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left in the 1930s (Chapel Hill,
 
Daniel Bell and The End of Ideology
 
Brick, Howard, Daniel bell
Culture and society : contemporary debates / edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman. (Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,1990., esp. essay "The debate over the "end of ideology" : can secular reason create cultural order? , "McCabe HM101 .C8955 1990
Lowi, Theodore J., The end of liberalism; ideology, policy, and the crisis of public authority (New York, Norton [1969]) [McCabe HM276 .L57
Waxman, Chaim Isaac, comp., The end of ideology debate (New York : Funk & Wagnalls, [1969, c1968]) [McCabe Honors Phil 121: Soc & Pol Phil
 
*for recent comment on Bell see Nuechterlein, James., "The good liberal., " National Review v. 42 (May 14 '90) p. 42-4; and Greenfeld, Liah., " Reflections of a bourgeois Menshevik.: interview with D. Bell, "Society v. 26 (Sept./Oct. '89) p. 10-20. For Bell's reassessment: Bell, Daniel, "The end of ideology revisited, "Government and Opposition v. 23 (Spring '88) p. 131-50
 
 
"New Left"
 
(1) C.W. Mills the Texas Trotsky
 
Bohlke, Robert H., Bureaucrats and intellectuals : a critique of C. Wright Mills (Springfield, Mass. : American International College, [1963]) [S McCabe HM22.U6 B6]
Campbell, Colin., "Reexamining Mills on motive: a character vocabulary approach," Sociological Analysis v. 52 (Spring '91) p. 89-97 . S: 42-53 1981-1992
Chasin, Barbara , C. Wright Mills, pessimistic radical.," Sociological Inquiry v. 60 (Fall '90) p. 337-51
Denzin, Norman K., " Learning from Mills., " in Images of postmodern society (Sage Publs., 1991) [also other essays on Mills in same volume] [Tripod no]
Horowitz, Irving Louis., C. Wright Mills : an American utopian (New York : Free Press, c1983) [S McCabe HM22.U6 M427 1983 ]
Scimecca, Joseph A., The sociological theory of C. Wright Mills (Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press, 1977]
Tilman, Rick., C. Wright Mills : a native radical and his American intellectual roots (University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press) [B Canaday HM22.U6 M466 1984
 
*for a selection of Mills' essays see Mills, C. Wright ,Power, politics, and people; the collected essays of C. Wright Mills. Edited and with an introd. by Irving Louis Horowitz.(New York, Oxford University Press, 1963) [ McCabe HM101 .M59 1963a ]
 
(2) Marcuse and the Freudian Left
 
Cranston, Maurice William, "Herbert Marcuse, in The New Left(1969) McCabe BF173.R37 R6
Fry, John, Marcuse, dilemma and liberation : a critical analysis ( [Atlantic Highlands. N. J.] : Humanities Press ; [Brighton, England] : Harvester Press, 1978, c1974) [ McCabe HM22.U6 M33 1978x
Katz, Barry, Herbert Marcuse and the art of liberation : an intellectual biography (New York, N.Y.1982 ()[ McCabe B945.M2984 K37 1982
King, Richard, Party of Eros [see RCB for copy]
Robinson, Paul A., The Freudian left: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse [ (New York, Harper & Row [1969]) McCabe BF173.R37 R6
 
*these titles represent only a few of those on Tripod, with an emphasis on intellectual biography. See Tripod and detailed list on fileserver .
 
ADDITIONAL TOPICS: (SEE FILESERVER)
 
Blacks and Marxism (Harold Cruse, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual )
 
X. Defining Postmodernism
 
Readings:
 
Berman, Marshall, All that is solid melts into air : the experience of modernity (New York : Simon and Schuster, c1982) [McCabe CB425 .B458 ] pp. 15-35, 291-347
 
Gergen, Kenneth, The Saturated Self (1991) , ch. 5
 
Harvey, David, The condition of postmodernity : an enquiry into the origins of cultural change ( Blackwell, 1989) [McCabe Honors Arth 164: Modern Art], pts 1, 4 = pp. 1-65, 327-59
 
Jameson, Fredric, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism " ch. 1.
 
Jencks, Charles ed"in The Post-Modern reader / edited (New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992) [Canaday B831.2 .P67 1992] especially . Jencks, "Post Modernism--the Third Force," Rose , Margaret " Defining Postmodernism,"
 
Tallack, Twentieth-century America , "Conclusion"
 
Suggested Topic:
 
Using as many of the above readings as possible, each member of the seminar is asked to write a brief (3pp) paper in which all or some of the following are considered:
 
1. Defining "postmodernism". Agreements, disagreements, difficulties?
 
2. Relation of "postmodernism" to "modernism," including different definitions of the latter in discussions of "postmodernism . "
 
3. Intellectual, social, economic/technological roots of "postmodernism." Meaning of "cultural logic of late capitalism" (Jameson).
 
4. Examples of "postmodernism" in different fields: literature and literary criticism, film, arts and architecture, social/political theory, feminism (note especially how the Jencks reader is structured).
 
5. Relation of "postmodernism" to debates over "multiculturalism, "P.C. etc.
 
 
XI. The 1960s and Its Legacy
 
(rev. 12/4/94)
 
PRIM. Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, chs. 1,
Leslie Fiedler, "The New Mutants, " Partisan Review , 1965
Susan Sontag, "Against Intrpretation," "Camp"
 
SEC. Dickstein, Gates of Eden, chs. 7, 9
Huyssens, "Mapping the Postmodern."in Jencks, Charles, Post-Modern Reader
 
REC Berman, Ronald, America in the sixties; an intellectual history.( New York, Free Press [1968]) [McCabe E169.1 .B49
R. King, The Party of Eros
Norman Mailer, "The White Negro,"in Advertisement for Myself
Roszak, Theodore, ,The making of a counter culture; reflections on the technocratic society and its youthful opposition (1969) [McCabe HN17.5 .R6 1969]
Whitmer, Peter O., Aquarius revisited : seven who created the sixties counterculture that changed America : (William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, KenKesey, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, Tom Robbins, Hunter S. Thompson) (1987) [Magill E169.12 .W48 1987
 
SUGGESTED TOPICS:
 
Paul Goodman and the Origins of the Counterculture
 
Roszak, Theodore, The making of a counter culture, ch 6
Sontag, Susan, , "On Paul Goodman," in Under the sign of Saturn (1980) [ McCabe NX456 .S58 1980
Stoehr, Taylor, 'Growing up absurd--again: rereading Paul Goodman in the nineties., "Dissent v. 37 (Fall '90) p. 486-94R. King, The Party of Eros
 
*emphasis should be on Goodman's , Growing up Absurd, possibly compared with his later reactions to the counterculture in Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972., Like a conquered province; the moral ambiguity of America (New York, Random House [1967]) [McCabe E169.1 .G646
 
Roots of Post Modernist Literary Criticism:
 
(1) Susan Sontag
 
Goodheart, Eugene, "The "radicalism" of Susan Sontag., "Pieces of resistance ( Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987.
Kennedy, Liam, Precocious archaeology: Susan Sontag and the criticism of culture, Journal of American Studies v. 24 (Apr. '90) p. 23-39 [S McCabe Per PERIODICALS LIB HAS: 1- 1967-5
Marx, Leo, 1919-, "Susan Sontag's "New Left" pastoral: notes on revolutionary pastoralism in America, in The pilot and the passenger (Oxford Univ. Press, 1988) pp. 291-314.
McRobbie, Angela, "The modernist style of Susan Sontag", Feminist Review v. no38 (Summer '91) p. 1-19 [S McCabe Per PERIODICALS LIB HAS: NO.16- 1984-2 > B Canaday HQ1154 .F4465 LIB HAS: 1-27 1979-1987 Library holdings of Feminist Review 2f
Schor, Esther H, Susan Sontag, in Modern American women writers (Scribner, 1991) pp. 471-84. [S McCabe Ref + PS151 .M54 1991]
 
XI. The 1960s and Its Legacy -con't
 
Roots of Post Modernist Literary Criticism-con't
 
(2) Leslie Fielder.
 
Capozzi, Rocco, "An interview with Leslie A. Fiedler: let's revisit postmodernism, "University of Toronto Quarterly v. 60 (Spring '91) p. 331-6[S McCabe HAS: 27- 1957-3]
Edwards, Thomas R., 1928-,"The new west, " in Over here ( Rutgers Univ. Press, 1991) [S Tech ServicesON ORDER]
Fiedler, Leslie A." In every generation: a meditation on the two holocausts, " in Fiedler on the roof (Godine, 1991) pp. 159-81.[McCabe PS3556.I34 F5 1991]
Goodheart, Eugene, "Leslie Fiedler and the mythic life," Pieces of resistance (Cambridge Univ. Press, 19870) pp. 37-45. [B Canaday PN99.U5 G66 1988 ]
Kenner, Hugh, " Who was Leslie Fiedler?, " Historical fictions (North Point Press, 1990) pp. 218-28. [Canaday PN510 .K4 1990]
Pease, Donald E, "Leslie Fiedler, the Rosenberg trial, and the formulation of an American canon.," Boundary 2 v. 17 (Summer '90) p. 155-98.
 
 
Cultural Consequenes of TV: Marshall McLuhan to MTV
 
Czitrom, Daniel J., Media and the American mind : from Morse to McLuhan (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1982) [HN90.M3 C96 1982]
Denney, Reuel, The astonished muse[1957])[McCabe GV45 .D4]
Kaplan, E. Ann., Rocking around the clock : music television, postmodernism, and consumer culture (New York : Methuen, 1987) [McCabe PN1992.8.M87 K36 1987
Miller, Jonathan, Marshall McLuhan. (New York, Viking Press [1971]) [McCabe P92.5.M3 M5 1971b
 
*for contemporary discussion of McLuhan see Theodore Roszak, "The Summa Popologica of Marshall McLuhan," and R. Kostelanetz, " "A Hot Apostle in a Cool Culture," from McLuhan Pro and Con [Primary Binder]
 
**on McLuhan see McLuhan, Understanding Media . For contemporary comment McLuhan: Pro and Con , ed. Raymond Rosenthal (1969)[see. RCB for copy] ; Stearn, Gerald Emanuel, comp., McLuhan, hot & cool; a primer for the understanding of & a critical symposium with a rebuttal by McLuhan (New York, Dial Press, 1967) [Magill P85.M23 S7 ; Theall, Donald F, The medium is the rear view mirror : understanding McLuhan (Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1971) [McCabe P92.5.M3 T5 ; Finkelstein, Sidney Walter, , Sense and nonsense of McLuhan (New York, International Publishers [1968]) [McCabe P90.M2583 F5. Ferguson, Marjorie, "Marshall McLuhan revisited: 1960s zeitgeist victim or pioneer postmodernist?, Media, Culture & Society v. 13 (Jan. '91) p. 71-90 [Tripod no]
 
**for background see Boddy, William, Fifties television : the industry and its critics (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1990)[ ISBN 0252016998 (alk. paper)] [McCabe PN1992.3.U5 B64 1990
 
 
XII.Conservative Crosscurrents in 1970s-1980s
 
Rev. 12/4/94
 
PRIM. Barzun, "Three Enemies of Intellect," House of Intellect, ch. 1
Bloom, Closing of the American Mind , Introd. "Our Virtue"
E.O. Wilson, "Altruism"
 
 
SEC. Bell, "The Culture Wars "1965-92, Wilson Quarterly (summer, 1992)
*Degler, In Search of Human nature, chs. 9-Epilogue
 
REC. Carroll, Peter N., It seemed like nothing happened : the tragedy and promise of America in the 1970s (New York, N.Y. : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1982) [Magill E169.12 .C29 1982
Hoeveler, J. David, Watch on the right : conservative intellectuals in the Reagan era (Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1991 [ISBN 0299128105 [Magill JA84.U5 H63 1991]
Nash, George H., The conservative intellectual movement in America, since 1945 (New York : Basic Books, c1976.) [McCabe E743 .N37 ]
 
The "Religious Right"
 
Boyer, Paul S., When time shall be no more : prophecy belief in modern American culture (Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,1992.
Hill, Samuel S., The new religious-political right in America (Nashville : Abingdon, c1982) [Magill E872 .H54 1982]
Hunter, James Davison, Culture wars : the struggle to define America ([New York] : BasicBooks, c1991) [McCabe E169.12 .H77 1991 DUE 02-15-95
 
Sociobiology: Radical, Liberal or the Same old "Social Darwinism
 
Degler, In Search of Human nature, ch.
Kaye, Howard L.,, The social meaning of modern biology : from social Darwinism to sociobiology (New Haven : Yale University Press, c1986.)[McCabe GN365.9 .K38 1986]
Wilson, Sociobiology : the new synthesis (Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975) [L775 .W54 ], ch. on Human Devleopment
 
*for a useful collection of essays see The Sociobiology debate : readings on ethical and scientific issues ed. by Arthur L. Caplan. (New York : Harper & Row, c1978) [ Cornell GN365.9 .S62 1978 For addtional titles see Bibliography "Sociobiology"
 
Cultural Conservatism from Barzun to Bloom
 
Goldfarb, Jeffrey "The Decline and Fall of American Culture? Social Research 56 (1989): 659-80
 
(1) On Barzun
 
(2) On Bloom
 
Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989., " Allan Bloom's critique of American education: a noble failure, " in Convictions (Prometheus Bks., 1990)pp. 117-29. [S McCabe B945.H683 C66 1990]
 
Taubeneck, Steven A., Bloom, Nietzsche, and the critique of postmodernism., " Fictions of culture (Lang, P., 1991) pp. 343-51. [S Tech Services ON ORDER: check to see what this means]
 
*above only a sample of 68 reviews and titles on Wilson search under word search "Closing" and Mind."
 
**paper should possibly compare and contrast the indictments of American culture in Barzun, The House of Intellect and the "decline of American culture" books represented by Bloom's Closing of the American Mind, and/or E.D. Hirsch, Cultural literacy (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1987) [McCabe LC149 .H57 1987]
Levine, George, , "Chicago's Bloom," in Raritan reading (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1990) pp. 254-66.
 
 
 
XIII. Postmodernism and the Multicultural Debate
 
rev. 12/9/94
 
Read: Hayden White, "The Politics of Historical Interpretation," Critical Inquiry 9 (Sept 1982), 113-31
Barth, "The literature of replenishment in Jencks, Postmodern Reader
Arac, Jonathan, "Postmodernism, Politics and the Impasse of the New York Intellctuals," in Critical Genealologies (1987) "
 
SUPP.(1) On multiculturalism
 
Berman, Paul "Introduction: The Debate and Its Origins," in Debating P.C: The Controversy over Political Correctness on College Campuses, ed. Paul Berman
James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America ( 1991).
Charles Sykes, A Nation of Victims (1992) (Bantam: New York, 1992)
Denish D'Souza, Illiberal Education
 
(2) On postmodernism (see also week 11 and Bibliography on Fileserver)
 
Connor, Steven, Postmodernist culture : an introduction to theories of the contemporary (Oxford [England] ; New York : Basil Blackwell, 1989.) [Magill PN98.P67 C66 1989]
Hirsch, David H. "Postmodernism and American literary history., The Sewanee Review v. 99 (Winter '91) p. 40-60
Norris, Christopher., What's wrong with postmodernism : critical theory and the ends of philosophy (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990) [McCabe Honors Rel 112: Postmodern Rel Thought
Mack, Anne. "Marxism, romanticism, and postmodernism: an American case history, " The South Atlantic Quarterly v. 88 (Summer '89) p. 605-32, 705- 20
 
(3) Anthologies
 
A Postmodern reader, edited by Joseph Natoli and Linda Hutcheon (Albany : State University of New York Press, c1993) [McCabe PN98.P67 P697 1993]
Smart, Barry. , Modern conditions : postmodern controversies (London ; New York : Routledge, 1992[[ 1 B Art & Arch HM101 .S62 1992 DUE 05-12-95 ]
 
SUGGESTED TOPICS:
 
History and Postmodernism
 
Harlan, David, "Intellectual History and the Return of Literature," AHR 94 (June 1989), 581-609.
Megill, Allan "Recounting their Past: 'Description,' Explanation and Narrative in History," AHR 94 (June 1989), 627-53
White, Hayden, The Content of Form (1987)
 
Postmodernism and Literature
 
Franklin, Phyllis et al;, "Continuity and Change in the Study of Literature," Change (Jan/Feb. 1992): 42-8.
A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, Jr., eds. Redefining American literary history ( New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1990.)[PS153.M56 R4 1990]
Lentricchia, Frank, After the new criticism (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1980)__ [McCabe Honors Engl 120: Theory of Criticism
*Reed, T. V. (Thomas Vernon), , Fifteen jugglers, five believers: literary politics and the poetics of American social movements (University of Calif. Press, 1992.S McCabe ) [PS228.P6 R44 1992
 
 
Postmodern Social Science /SocialTheory
 
Botwinick, Aryeh, Postmodernism and democratic theory (Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1993.) [McCabe B831.2 .B688 1993
Murphy, John W. , Postmodern social analysis and criticism ( New York : Greenwood Press, 1989) [1 S McCabe HM26 .M87 1989
Postmodernism and the social sciences / edited by Joe Doherty, Elspeth Graham, and Mo Malek.( New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992.) [S McCabe H61 .P615 1992
 
 
*for an example of "postmodern" ethnography see Dorst, John Darwin, The written suburb : an American site, an ethnographic dilemma (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1989) [McCabe F159.C33 D67 1989 . This study may be profitably compared with R. and H. Lynd, Midddletown