WORK IN PROGRESS
INSTITUTE OF UNITED STATES STUDIES
AMERICAN IMAGINATION OF SYNTHESIS 1969/70
Tape 16 Pynchon - Crying of Lot 49
Tape 17 Non-Verbal Consciousness - psychedelia, tantra etc.
Tape 18 Non-Verbal Consciousness - concl.
AMERICAN IMAGINATION OF SYNTHESIS 1971/72
Tape 1A
1. Intro 14 x 71
2. Intro (cont) 21 x 71
Tape 1B
[2] Intro (cont)
3. Intro (end) 28 x 71
Darwin, Marx, Freud I (start)
Tape 2A
1. Darwin, Marx, Freud I (end)
2.
Darwin, Marx, Freud II (+ Velikovsky) 4 xi 71
Tape 2B
2. (cont) Darwin, Marx, Freud (+ Velikovsky)
3.
Kent State (start) 11 xi 71
Tape 3A
1. Kent State (end)
2. Slavery (start) 18 xi 71
Tape 3B
2 (cont). Slavery (end)
3
Media, American West (start) 25 xi 71
Tape 4A
1 American West (end)
2 ? (start) 2 xii 71
Tape 4B
2 (cont) ? (end)
3 Henry Adams - Mumford (start) 9 xii 71
Tape 5A
1 Henry Adams - Mumford (end)
2 Henry Adams
(start) 13 i 72
Tape 5B
2 (cont)
Henry Adams (end)
3 Adams (start) 20 i 72
McLuhan/Duncan/Adams - Opening of the Field)
Tape 6A
1
Opening of the Field (end)
2 McLuhan/Goodman 27 i 72
Tape 6B
2 (cont) McLuhan/Goodman (end)
3 Morality & Psychology; Group Therapy I (start) 3 ii 71
Tape 7A
1 Group Therapy I (end)
2 Group Therapy II, Reich (start) 10 ii 71
Tape 7B
2 (cont) Group Therapy II, Reich (end)
3 Group
Therapy III (Goodman, Reich) 17 ii 71
Tape 8A
1 Gestalt Therapy (Reich) (end)
2 Design: Bauhaus, James (Moral Equivalent of War) 24 ii 72
Tape 8B 2 (cont) ME of W (cont), Black Mountain (end)
3 - Ives - Cage (start)
3 iii 72
Tape 9A
1 Ives - Cage (end), Numerology (start)
2 Numerology (end); LaMonte Young, Cage, Babbitt 9 iii 72
Tape 9B
2 (cont)
YCB (end)
3
Cage (end); Fuller - Goodman (complete) 16 iii 72
Tape 10A
1. The City: Fuller, Pound etc. 23 iii 72
Tape 10B
1 Chomsky - Generative Grammar 1 vi 72
The City (date? bad quality)
Tape 7 Hawthorne
Tape 8 Hawthorne
THE WASTED SACRIFICE 1971-72
Tape 1A
1 Intro 18 x 71
2 Intro - Adams 25 x 71
3 Intro
- Faulkner: Absolom, Absolom I (start) 1 xi 71
Tape 1B
3 (cont)
Faulkner I (end)
4 Faulkner II 8 xi 71
5 Faulkner: Go Down Moses I (start) 15 xi 71
Tape 2A
1 Faulkner: Go Down Moses I (end)
2 Faulkner: Go Down Moses II 22 xi 71
3 Faulkner: Go Down Moses III (start) 29 xi 71
Tape 2B
3 (cont) Faulkner: Go Down Moses III (end)
4 Hemmingway I: Soldier's Home 6 xii 71
5 Hemmingway II: Soldier's Home (start)
13 xii 71
Tape 3A
1 Hemmingway II: Soldier's Home (end), Moveable Feast
2 Hemmingway III: Fiesta (start) 17 i 72
3
Hemmingway IV: Fiesta (cont) 24 i 72
Tape 3B
3 (cont) Hemmingway IV: Fiesta (end)
4 Hemmingway V , Fitzgerald I 31 i 72
5
Fitzgerald II: Gatsby (start) 7 II 72
Tape 4A
1 Fitzgerald II: Gatsby (end)
2 Fitsgerald III: Gatsby
14 ii 72
3 Fitzgerald IV: Gatsby 21 ii 72
Tape 4B
3 (cont) Fitzgerald IV: Tender is the Night (end)
4 Hollywood Novels I Fitzgerald: The Last Tycoon (start) 28 11 72
5
Hollywood Novels II Fitzgerald: The Last Tycoon (end); Nathaniel West: The Day of the Locust (start) 6 iii 72
Tape 5A
1 Hollywood Novels
II (end) West: Locust (cont)
2
Hollywood Novels III West: Locust (end); Mailer: Intro 13 iii 72
3 Hollywood Novels IV Mailer: Deer Park (start)
Tape 5B
3 (cont) Mailer: Deer Park (end)
Tape 5C
4 American Imagination of Synthesis: The City (date? bad quality)
SEMINARS
1969/70
Tape 1B Term Outline
Tape 2B Hawthorne
Tape 2C Gothic Fiction
Tape 4A Wallace Stevens
Tape 4B Wallace Stevens
Tape 5A Wallace Stevens
Tape 5B Thoreau - Walden
Tape 6 Stevens - Twain - Ginsberg
1971-2
AMERICAN LIT SEMINARS, 2ND YEAR
Tape 1A
1 Intro 14 x 71
2 Poe 21 x 71
3 Hawthorne (start) 28 x 71
Tape 1B
3 Hawthorne (end)
4 Melville 4 xi 71
5 Emerson (start) 11 xi 71
Tape 2A
1 Emerson (end)
2 Thoreau 18 xi 71
3 Whitman I (start) 25 xi 71
Tape 2B
3 Whitman 1 (end)
4 Whitman II 9 xii 71
5 E. Dickinson (start) 20 i 72
Tape 3A
1 E. Dickinson (end)
2 S Crane - Red Badge 27 1 72
3 Dreiser - American Tragedy (start) 3 ii 72
Tape 3B
3
Dreiser (end)
4 H. James - Spoils of Poynton, Beast in the Jungle 10 ii 72
5 American Theatre - History (start) 17 ii 72
Tape 4A
1 American Theatre I (incl. O'Neill) (end)
2
American Theatre II (incl. O'Neill, Odets) 24 ii 72
Tape 4B
2 American Theatre II (Odets)
3 American Theatre III (Miller; Williams: View from the Bridge, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) 2 iii 72
Tape 5A
1 Dos Passos/Sinclair Lewis 7 iii 72
2 Thomas Wolfe (start) 14 iii 72
Tape 5B
1 Thomas Wolfe (end)
AMERICAN LIT SEMINARS, 3RD YEAR
Tape 1A
1
Poe 1 15 x 71
2 Poe II 22 x 71
3 James I (start) 29 x 71
Tape 1B
3 (cont) James I (end)
4 James II 5 xi 71
Tape 2A
1.
Twain I (Hadleyburg) 12 xi 71
2 Twain II 19 xi 71
Tape 2B
2 (cont) Twain II (end)
3 Twain III 26 xi 71
4 Hemingway I (start)
3 xii 71
Tape 3A
1 Hemingway I (end)
2 Hemmingway II 10 xii 71
3 Modern American Poetry I (start)
21 i 72
Tape 3B
3 (cont) Modern American Poetry I (end)
4 Modern American Poetry II 28 i 72
Tape 4A
1 Black Mountain Poets - Talk at Better Books. (Bad playback of tapes - mostly unlistenable)
Tape 4B
1 Modern American Poetry I (end) Creeley 18 ii 72
2
Modern American Poetry II Olson (start) 25 ii 72
Tape 5A
1 Modern American Poetry II (end) Olsen
2 Modern American Poetry III John Wiener, McClure 3 iii 72
3 Modern American Poetry IV (start) 10 iii 72
Tape 5B
3 (cont) Modern American Poetry IV (end)
4 Modern American Poetry V McClure 17 iii 72
SEMINARS, LECTURES AND POETRY READINGS
Tape 1 Creativity 12 x 89 (Graduate Seminar 1989-1990) "The proposal is to examine the history of the idea of creativity, and the present state of its definitions and processes."
Tape 2 What a place to sleep! Intercultural and countercultural actions from 1950 in America. IUSS seminar 12 v 90. Eric Motram, introduced by Howell Daniels
Tape 3 Poetry Reading, The Moon, November 23 1988. Begins with poems dedicated to Rene Char.
Tape 4 Poetry Reading - SubVoicive, Prince George of Cumberland, May 10 1991
Tape 5 "A Man of the Most Universal Knowledge" - Sir George Cayley. Polytechnic of Central London 27 ix '88
Tape 6 Rebels - Janice Joplin; presented by Hugh Sykes; contributions from Eric Mottram. BBC Radio 4, 12 x 84
Tape 7 Rebels - Lennie Bruce; presented by Hugh Sykes; contributions from Eric Mottram. BBC Radio 4 2 xi 84
PDFs
AMERICAN IMAGINATION OF SYNTHESIS 1969/70 - TRANSRIPTS
These are PDFs of transcripts which I made at the time from tapes, but they do not seem to correspond to tapes that I have copies of -- a mystery!
Creativity: Bibliography Graduate Seminar, 1989-90
"The American Presence in Britain and American Cultural Studies": for the Inauguration of the Degree in United States and Latin American Studies, Kings College, University of London, May 10, 1994
The American Imagination of Synthesis: Studies in American Culture in the American Century Bibliography June 1970 16pp
Entrances: Outline and bibliography 22pp
Mosaic 1 Summary and bibliography 6 pp
Mosaic 2 Summary and bibliography 8pp
The American Presence in Britain and American Cultural Studies: For the Inauguration of the Degree in United States and Latin American Studies, King's College, University of London, May 10, 1994 20pp
Norman O Brown: From Politics to Metapolitics Frederick William Atherton Lecture, Harvard University, March 20, 1967 17 double pp
Buckminster Fuller: This is Your Grand Strategy 6 double pp
The Field Diagram/Bibliography 1p
Charles Olson: Places; & Names 1p
Bibliography - environment studies - ecology - happenings - mixed media events 1p
Modern American Poetry Conference featuring Four American Poets, May 25-27, 1973, Polytechnic of Cental London Thanks to Richard Friedman for scanning this.