James began our session today with a lively discussion on Waitress with a particular interest in whether you saw this Broadway stage version to be a reduction of the force found in the film. In the discussion there was a real sense that many of you thought that the play version was sentimentalizing a brutal and…
Tag: F.Scott Fitzgerald
New York Day 4: Day Off! Central Park & The Whitney (including Andy Warhol)!!
Day 4 – Day Off- with an early morning run round Central Park followed by a visit to The Whitney Gallery on the Hudson River with a special retrospective exhibition of Andy Warhol. Central Park in the early morning creates a great sense of the deeper context of New York. Here you become aware of…
First Tutorial for New York 2019 cohort: The Literature and Drama of New York
Thank you all for your attendance and keen participation today. We have two recordings of our presentation and discussion. The first is the recording from the Sydney cohort, the second from the Melbourne and Brisbane cohort combined. Attached also please find the slides from today’s tutorial. Enjoy revisiting this content as needed for your quiz…
Thursday Day 2: The Met: American Art and its relation to Literature
Today we had a wonderful guide Lauren Ebin (one-time Archeologist) who took us on a personalized tour of some of the best of American art that interfaced with the poetry, fiction and autobiography that we are studying. She began in the 18thC with those wondrous, massive paintings of Washington which depicted him as a democrat,…
Central Park: location for Fitzgerald and Salinger
Our tour guide Eric waxing lyrical over all the many literary connections contained within Central Park. Carousel in motion: Holden’s duck pond: where do the ducks go in winter? Lee (tour guide) is here describing the Angel Fountain: Two Profs very happy with the outcome of this whole tour: 1= AssProf; 2=2BProff
Walk to Brooklyn Bridge and Times Square: Literary & Dramatic Connections
Another great day of walking with so much valuable input from our New York literary guides. Today we headed first to Brooklyn and then on to Midtown’s Times Square. Our guide filled us in with some interesting historical background to this area of New York: And here is the fabulous Bridge about which Hart Crane…
New York: here we are! ACU students from Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne
Up up and away! Students from 3 ACU campuses (Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane) met in Los Angeles to head together to New York to study “The Literature and Drama of New York” which James Marland and myself are teaching this year and in subsequent years if all goes to plan: We arrived after a 24…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2022 
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