Nicholson Baker - Seminars / Workshops / Lectures

LITERATURE AS COMMUNICATION (3 credits)

Nicholson Baker with Martin Hielscher.

Description: Explores literature as model of communication, stimulates creative writing, and discusses the philosophical aesthetics of Theodor W. Adorno. Includes a workshop with a guest author such as Nicholson Baker, Julian Barnes, Marcel Beyer, Michel Houellebecq, Shelley Jackson, or Colum McCann.

Objectives: Students will gain insight to the ways in which literature communicates philosophical and aesthetic affects and ideologies. Through engaging literature as a site of resistance and growth in relation to theory students will broaden their understanding of knowledge production. A large focus will be on the creative process of writing.

Required Books and Reading Assignments:

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno and Robert Hullot-Kentor (Editor). Aesthetic Theory. University of Minnesota Press. Paperback, 448 pages, December 1998, ISBN: 0816618003. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Baker, Nicholson. The Size of Thoughts. Vintage Books. 1997. Paperback, 355 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0679776249. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Baker, Nicholson. Vox. Granta Books. 1998. Paperback, 176 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0679742115. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Baker, Nicholson. Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. Simon & Schuster. March 11, 2008. Hardcover, 576 pages, Language English, ISBN: 1416567844. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr. Paperback, 576 pages, ISBN: 1416572465. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.