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Study With the Best
Study with the Best is a listing of available study guides written by Brandeis faculty for members of the Brandeis National Committee for use in chapter study groups.
Contemporary Issues
Persepolis
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
Crown Center for Middle East Studies
Told in powerful black-and-white comic strip images, "Persepolis" is a poignant memoir about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. "Persepolis" is one of the most original coming-of-age stories of our day.
Additional reading of background materials to enrich your understanding and appreciation of this story is included.
What Does It Mean to Be an American Citizen? Civic Engagement and the Revival of Democracy (BR52)
By Andreas Teuber
Associate Professor of Philosophy
What makes a good citizen? What skills, knowledge and attitudes should citizens in an effective democracy have, and where and how are citizens likely to acquire these skills? Are we the citizens we can be or want to be? In the aftermath of the tragic events of 9/11, we may begin to see signs of a more meaningful role for Americans to play in the political life of the 21st century. User guide and "The Great BNC National Elections Quiz" included.
Making the Tough Decisions: Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the 21st Century (BR63)
By Michael M. Appell, MA'79
Lecturer, International Business School
Current Events
What's going on in the Middle East today?
Film Studies
Two Hollywood Classics: Citizen Kane and Casablanca (S 123)
by Paul Morrison
Professor of English and American Literature
Citizen Kane and Casablance are almost universally acknowledged as classics of Hollywood cinema, yet the two movies could hardly be more different. Citizen Kane is the brainchild for the "boy genius" Orson Welles, violates virtually every convention of classic Hollywood cinema. Casablanca is consider the perfect product of "the Hollywood studio system." yet both movies are considered classics. How can this be? How are we to think of film in relation to established standareds of aesthetic judgement?
The Screening Room: Brandeis Goes to the Movies — Nine Deadly Films of Hitchcock (F1)
Enjoy film as you never have before! The movies are indelible, the surname is adjectival and the black outline of the portly profile is as recognizable as the Nike logo. More than two decades after his death, Alfred Hitchcock still towers over American cinema. Each in this series of nine Hitchcock classics is introduced by a Brandeis faculty member.
Blacklisting and Other Un-American Activities: Movies, Television and the Cold War (BR50)
By Thomas Doherty
Professor of American Studies
Law and Society
The American Jury: Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (S120)
by Sharon Fray Witzer
Lecturer in Legal Studies
We generally think of our government as having three brances - legislative, executive, and judicial. A fourth branch of our democracy is all but forgotten - the jury. It may be because its deliberations are secret and we really do not know exactly how it works, or it many be because its role as been circumscribed, not as a maker of law, but as a servant of law - like a machine or a computer of sorts. Are juries necessary to democracy? This guide should lead you into a discussion of the nature and function of our criminal justice system and how we might improve it, focusing particularly on "proof beyond a reasonable doubt."
Twenty-one Legal Puzzlers: What Is a Crime? (S106)
By Andreas Teuber
Associate Professor of Philosophy
How Nasty Are We Free To Be? Racial Insults and Epithets — Discriminatory Harassment or Protected Speech? (BR46)
By Andreas Teuber
Associate Professor of Philosophy
By Mary Davis
Professor of American Studies (retired)
An examination of the erosion of privacy rights and Justice Brandeis’ insistence on the “right to be let alone.”
By Andreas Teuber
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Should killing another always be a punishable crime or is there some justification that excuses the killer? This brieflet puts you on the judge's bench and provides you with the opportunity to decide.
Interpreting the Constitution, or How is the U.S. Constitution Like the Ten Commandments? (B58)
By Andreas Teuber
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Is the Death Penalty Cruel and Unusual Punishment? (B47)
By Andreas Teuber
Associate Professor of Philosophy
This brieflet tackles the issue of capital punishment from two angles. It broadens the issue by asking what the aims and limits of punishment itself ought to be and it explores the issue by asking whether the imposition of the death penalty is cruel and unusual.
Literature
Between the Generations: Six Contemporary North American Short Stories (S116)
By William Flesch
Professor of English and American Literature
Six More Contemporary North American Short Stories (S115)
By William Flesch
Professor of English and American Literature
This study guide considers six very different stories from "The Scribner's Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American Stories," edited by Rosellen Brown, and asks you to think about what makes these stories original, interesting and worth reading. Stories include: "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid; "Pet Milk" by Stuart Dybeck; "Errand" by Raymond Carver; "Meneseteung" by Alice Munro; "Emergency" by Denis Johnson; and "The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick.
This introduction to six works of 20th century fiction considers how the human spirit deals with the breakdown of civilization and its promises. The writers meditate on the problem of the moral and aesthetic place of art and literature in a world where all the old certainties have been destroyed.
By Susan Moeller
Assistant Professor of Journalism (retired)
This engaging syllabus examines children's literature from a child’s perspective. It asks: What kinds of books stimulate a child's imagination? What are the roles of such elements as fantasy, adventure, horror and humor in children's books? How do books deal with issues and concerns that are relevant for children? What sort of ethical, social and cultural values do books transmit?
Caribbean Women Writing: Between Nation and Imagination (S114)
By Faith Smith
Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and English and American Literature
Spanning the 1830s to the 1990s, six Caribbean women writers struggle through fiction to redraw the colonial and postcolonial maps that have placed their islands at the center of violent historical processes. Writers Prince, Seacole, Rhys, Condé, Kincaid and Danticat attempt to bring coherence to the worlds they have inherited.
By Bruce McKenna
Graduate Student, English
This guide looks closely at two of Flannery O'Connor's short stories, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge." Includes a discussion of the elements of landscape and setting, personal relations and questions of faith and morality as reflected in O'Connor's work.
The Contemporary Latin American Short Story (S71)
By Teresa Mendez-Faith and Maria Elena Carballo
Department of Spanish
An intriguing look at the Latin American short story explored through discussions and readings of the following: "The Circular Ruins" (Jorge Luis Borges), "The Southern Thruway" (Julio Cortazar), "The Smallest Woman in the World" (Clarice Lispector), "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) and "False Limits" (Vlady Kociancich). Please note: Cost of this syllabus is $8. This includes all texts.
Dostoevsky and "The Brothers Karamazov" (B11)
By Robin Feuer Miller
Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities
This guide engages the reader in a careful study of Dostoevsky's classic novel, "The Brothers Karamazov." Particular attention is given to the contrasting of the real-life experiences of the author with those he creates for the characters in this work.
Introduction to the Genre of the Short Story (S69)
By Geoffrey Harpham
Professor of English and American Literature (retired)
Discussion guide and representative readings from the works of Poe, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka and Breece D'J Pancake.
Jane Austen Goes To Hollywood (B49)
By Paul Morrison
Professor of English and American Literature
A new look at the hottest 19th century writer of the 20th century. Why has Jane Austen become so popular? What does it mean to translate a Jane Austen novel into a very different aesthetic medium (film)?
Pleasure Under Difficulties: The Fiction of Henry James (S109)
(with a look at his sister Alice)
By William Flesch
Professor English and American Literature
Henry James is as popular as ever. Perhaps the greatest American novelist, James combines mystery, romance, suspense and high art in ways that are always surprising and always fresh. In this syllabus, we consider five of his greatest works — many of them on the shorter side — as well as the diary of his extraordinary sister Alice. We'll look at James's version of a ghost story, a spy story, a tawdry romance, a fable of child development, ending with what is often regarded as his supreme achievement, "The Portrait of a Lady."
Studies in Literary Modernism (S102A)
By Paul Morrison
Professor of English and American Literature
Studies in literary modernism is an exploration of the concept of the "modern" as it informs seminal poems, novels and plays of the early 20th century: Wallace Stevens' "Of Modern Poetry," T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." Professor Morrison views the formal radicalism of literary modernism as the relentless experimentations with style and genre characteristic of the authors listed above as an attempt to come to terms with the brutal realities of 20th century experience.
Six Soviet Prose Writers (S46)
By Robert Szulkin
Professor of Slavic Languages (retired)
Points of view on Soviet life and society: "Collected Stories" (Isaac Babel), "The Master and Margarita" (Mikhail Bulgakov), "Envy and Other Stories" (Yuri Olesha), "Doctor Zhivago" (Boris Pasternak), "The First Circle" (Alexander Solzhenitsyn) and "We" (Evgenij Zamyatin).
The Victorian Heroine (SG1)
By Helena Michie
Department of English
Many Victorian novels bear the names of their heroines; most follow the movement of a female protagonist towards marriage or death. This study guide is designed as an exploration of five Victorian novels — Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre," Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret," Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" and George Gissing's "Odd Women" — and of how their heroines negotiate their journeys through the text.
Violence in Literature: American Style (S110)
By Caren Irr, Patrica Chu, William Flesch, Michael T. Gilmore
Department of English
What is it about American culture, society, history, demographics, geography and civilization that makes violence so much a part of the fabric of American life? Several faculty members contributed to this syllabus and present a common theme discussing issues of class, race, gender and conquest. Readings include "The Handmaid's Tale" (Margaret Atwood); "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" (Jack London); "The Big Knockover" and "$106,000 Blood Money" (Dashiell Hammett); and "Benito Cereno" (Herman Melville).
What's in a Name? A Study of Genesis (B35)
By Paul Morrison
Professor of English and American Literature
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." In this study guide, the book of Genesis provides the focal point in a wide-ranging discussion of the literary, social and political implications of names and naming.
By James Mandrell
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Women's and Gender Studies and Film Studies
From Agatha Christie's Miss Marple to Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski and many more, "detective afficionados" can explore a familiar genre from a new point of view.
More Different Dicks: Offbeat Contemporary Detective Fiction (S102B)
By James Mandrell
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Women's and Gender Studies and Film Studies
Professor Mandrell's thought-provoking syllabus departs from traditional detective fiction. The stories explore complex social, cultural and political issues and avoid overly neat outcomes and conclusions. Included are "Murder in the Collective" (Barbara Wilson); "Study in Lilac" (Maria Antonia Oliver); "How Town" (Michael Nava); "Murder on a Kibbutz: A Communal Case" (Batya Gur); "The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse" (Mabel Maney) and "Blanche Among the Talented Tenth" (Barbara Neely).
A Novel Murder: The Life and Times of the Detective Story (S55)
By Susan Solomon Forbes
Professor of American Studies (retired)
The mystery novel permits the serious reader to study basic issues, such as moral codes, the relationship between the individual (criminal, detective, victim) and society, and concepts of law and justice. Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, John Le Carre and others are discussed.
Shakespeare
By William Flesch
Professor of English and American Literature
"Fathers and Sons" is an introduction to a number of grand Shakespearean themes: political, social and familial tension; the intensification or resolution of these tensions over time; the way in which people come to know themselves and take their place in the world; the obstacles they find; and the help they receive. Thus, Shakespeare's themes are those of human life in general. We examine these issues not only for what Shakespeare has to say about them, but also for what they have to say about Shakespeare. What were his beliefs, hope and fears? How close were they to our own? This syllabus touches on all the genres in which Shakespeare wrote over the course of his career, concentrating on the plays, tragedy, history, comedy and romance.
By William Flesch
Professor of English and American Literature
By William Flesch
Professor of English and American Literature
The Fear of Poetry (and How to Overcome It) (S 101)
By Paul Morrison
Professor of English and American Literature
Overcome your fear of poetry and begin a love affair. A step-by-step walk through tone, metaphor and symbol, sound and sense, sight and sense and intertextuality for the most poetry phobic.
Flattery and Contempt: The Presentation of Women in Poetry (BR 38)
By Paul Morrison
Professor of English and American Literature
This brieflet explores the paradox that the flattering of women in poetry is the sincerest form of contempt. Through a close reading of a Shakespeare sonnet, Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" and Edna St. Vincent Millay's "I Dreamed I Moved Among the Elysian Fields," Morrison attempts to substantiate this contention.
The syllabus is an eight-session look at America’s yearning for stability and security in the 1950s and the fear of subversion and radicalism that can be noticed in the novels and movies of this decade. For history buffs, this is a wonderful way to view the years from World War II to John F. Kennedy.
American Culture in the 1960s (BR 41)
By Thomas Doherty
Professor of Film Studies
From the election of JFK to Nixon and Kent State, this brieflet and its readings clarify where America has been and helps us to understand where it is going.
American Film and Culture of the 1940s (Study Guide 07)
By Thomas Doherty
Professor of Film Studies
Doherty provides a new look at the culture of the 1940s through the "history of film" and "film as history." An extensive list of films, which are readily available on videotape, is provided along with thought-provoking questions to stimulate and guide discussion.
By Susan Moeller
Journalism Program
War is about combat. Combat is the heart of war. It is what young boys glamorize, old men remember, poets celebrate, governments rally around, women cry about and soldiers die in. The three wars covered in this syllabus — the Civil War, World War II and the Vietnam War — generate real and imagined stories. Our own perspective on each war is shaped by these stories. You will learn about the differences in these wars and understand the similarities of the conflicts through literature and film.
By Thomas Doherty
Professor of Film Studies
Did you know that the McCarthy hearings had nothing to do with the entertainment industry? Did you know that Edward G. Robinson wrote an article for American Legion magazine titled "How the Reds Made a Sucker Out of Me."? And did you know that commercial television was particularly slow about asserting its independence from the anticommunist influences, blacklisting folk singer Pete Seeger until 1967? This brieflet opens up this time in history for study of some of the myths surrounding anticommunism in the entertainment industry.
The Jewish Experience
Women in the Bible (BR 36)
By Marc Brettler
Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies
American Judaism: A Reader’s Guide (S117)
By Rachel Gordan
(under the supervision of Jonathan Sarna, professor of American Jewish History)
"American Judaism" traces Jewish life from the colonial era through the present day. This reader's guide summarizes the central themes of each chapter and poses stimulating questions for discussion.
Images of Jews in American Movies (B28)
By Stephen J. Whitfield
Max Richter Professor of American Civilization
This guide traces the depictions of Jews in American films over the last several decades, beginning with the ghetto films of the silent era, progressing through the so-called "assimilation" movies of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s and on to a period of ethnic resurgence enjoyed in films of the 1960s and later. The manner in which these trends in Hollywood are connected to the status of Jews in American society is also considered.
American Jewish Humor (B26)
By Stephen J. Whitfield
Max Richter Professor of American Civilization
This guide provides a provocative — not to mention, entertaining — look at what is distinctive about Jewish humor, especially in its American setting. With the likes of such comedians as Sid Caesar, Danny Kaye, Bette Midler and, of course, the inimitable Woody Allen, the reader is encouraged both to learn and to laugh.
Jews in the Musical Theater (S111)
By Stephen J. Whitfield
Max Richter Professor of American Civilization
How have Jews helped to shape the heritage of the Broadway musical? This syllabus identifies key figures and works that constitute a tradition that helped make the nation's music a force of unity and a source of joy and creative brilliance. Even more than Hollywood, Broadway represents proof of a Jewish yearning to exercise talent when provided the freedom and opportunity to do so.
The Impact of Jews in American Popular Culture (BR 57)
By Stephen J. Whitfield
Max Richter Professor of American Civilization
The role of Jews in American popular culture raises several important, if possibly unanswered, questions. How could so tiny a minority loom so large in the arts? From movies to the dramatic arts, from music to painting and architecture, why have American Jews provided such creativity for such a small population of immigrants? And to what extent are Judaism or Jewish identity and values relevant in understanding and appreciating such cultural achievements?
By Yaron Peleg
Deaprtment of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Women
You Never Call, You Never Write: A History of the Jewish Mother
By Joyce Antler
Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture
Antler examines one of the best known figures in popular culture — the Jewish mother — through decades of American films, novels, radio and television programs, stand-up comedy acts and psychological and historical studies.
Double or Nothing: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage (HBI 1)
By Sylvia Barack Fishman
Professor of Contemporary Jewry and American Jewish Sociology
The Plough Women (HBI 6)
Edited by Mark Raider and Miriam B. Raider-Roth (partnership with Hadasah-Brandeis Institute)
"The Plough Women" reveals a fascinating chapter in the history of pioneer Palestine. First published in 1932 — and long out of print — this new edition casts light on the complex arena of Palestine and Zionism as well as the intersection between the early-Jewish nationalist movement and radical feminists at the turn of the 10th and 20th centuries. This fully-annotated edition includes biographies of the book’s original contributors, photographs, glossary of terms and a map of pre-state Israeli society. The editors’ new introductory essays establish the literary and historical context for these narratives, discuss women in Zionist history and focus on the work and family issues vexing these early pioneers. Study guide and questions for discussion available.
Leaving Leningrad (HBI 7)
By Ludmilla Shtern (partnership with Hadassah-Brandeis Institute)
Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman (HBI 2)
By Fariden Goldin
Farideh Goldin was born to her 15-year-old mother in 1953 in a Jewish community living in an increasingly hostile Islamic state: pre-Revolutionary Iran. "Wedding Song" is Goldin’s passionate and painful account of growing up in a poor Jewish household and her emigration to the United States in 1975.
Muslim Societies Speak (HBI 3)
(partnership with Hadassah-Brandeis Institute)
Jewish women from Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon and Iran share their personal stories of growing up in the shadow of religious fundamentalism and social repression. These essays, told through the medium of vivid personal stories, provide a deeper understanding of the world and an appreciation for Jewish women’s history in North Africa and the Middle East.
Women's Studies American Women in the 1950s: Exaggerated Contradictions (B44)
By Joyce Antler
Samuel B. Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture
This study guide examines the paradoxical nature of women's lives in the 1950s by assembling evidence of the so-called return to domesticity apparent in demographic trends, the suburban exodus, fashion, media and educational indices, while providing documentation of the very real gains women were making in employment, politics, civil rights, arts and culture. Includes excerpts from "The Bell Jar," "Marjorie Morningstar," "I Stand Here Ironing" and the notorious "Modern Woman: The Lost Sex," plus media myths and your experiences.
Women in American History (Syllabus 73)
By Joyce Antler
Samuel B. Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture
This course provides a fresh look into history through women's eyes by placing female experience and consciousness at the center rather than at the margins of analysis. In addition to texts and original-source documents, such authors as Maya Angelou, Betty Friedan, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary McCarthy, Sylvia Plath and Anzia Yezierska are represented. Cost of this syllabus is $8. This includes accompanying readings of historical documents by and about women from the Colonial period to the present.
Jewish Women Shape Modern America: A Study Guide to "The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century" (B51)
By Joyce Antler
Samuel B. Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture
This brieflet is a companion to Part I of Antler's book "The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century," a compelling portrait of thoroughly modern women who believed that by improving American society they were achieving Judaism's highest goal — making the world a better place to live.
Finding Common Ground: Jewish Women in a World of Difference (SG4)
By Joyce Antler
Samuel B. Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture
"Finding Common Ground: Jewish Women in a World of Difference" is the second part of a study guide to Antler's collection "America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers." The guide focuses on the theme of difference in four stories from the book: Anzia Yezierska's title story, "America and I," Gloria Goldreich's "Z'mira," Joanne Greenberg's "L'Olam and White Shell Woman" and Leslea Newman's "A Letter to Harvey Milk." In each of these stories, a Jewish protagonist learns a powerful lesson about the meaning of Jewish identity by reaching out to others and attempting to understand difference.
Our Grandmothers, Ourselves: Were Yiddish Writers the First Jewish Feminists? (Brieflet 39)
By Sylvia Barack Fishman
Professor of Contemporary Jewry and American Jewish Sociology
This brieflet deals with the first chapter of Fishman's book "Follow My Footprints: Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction." Were Yiddish writers the first Jewish feminists? You'll find out in "Our Grandmothers, Ourselves" and the many stories that follow.
Portrayals of Women in American Jewish Literature (Syllabus 76)
By Sylvia Barack Fishman
Professor of Contemporary Jewry and American Jewish Sociology
This course focuses on women from the immigrant days of the early 20th century to contemporary America, where feminism, a tightened economy and expanded roles for women reflect changes in the concept of the "ideal Jewish woman." Works to be studied include: "The Open Cage" (Anzia Yezierska), "Tell Me a Riddle" (Tillie Olsen), "Marjorie Morningstar" (Herman Wouk), "Goodbye, Columbus" (Philip Roth), "The Mind-Body Problem" (Rebecca Goldstein) and "The Cannibal Galaxy" (Cynthia Ozick).
Women in the Bible (Brieflet 36)
By Marc Brettler
Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies
A study of the women of Genesis, Song of Songs, Ruth and Esther, seen from different outlooks including anthropological, sociological, literary and gender studies.
Women's Stories, Jewish Lives (Study Guide 2)
By Joyce Antler
Samuel B. Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture
This guide is designed for use with Antler's edited collection "America and I: Short Stories by American-Jewish Women Writers." The guide discusses four short stories by the authors Mary Antin, Fannie Hurst, Hortense Calisher and Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Each of the stories deals with the interrelated themes of Jewish identity and generational conflict, and each pairs a parent and child who, as the story unfolds, come to present differing views about Judaism and Jewishness; it is told, in every case, from a woman's special point of view.
On Broadway
Fiddlers on the Roof (S68)
By John Bush Jones
Department Theatre Arts (retired)
Through the discussion of six major American plays and musicals, this course examines concerns basic to Jews in mid-20th-century America. All the plays are by Jewish authors and reflect various areas of concern, attitudes and ideas. The subject matter varies greatly, but certain issues fundamental to the Jewish ethnic heritage, religion and value systems recur through the plays. Among these are questions of survival, assimilation into American culture and society, family relationships, ritual and religion and tradition versus adaptation. Plays discussed are "Awake and Sing" (Clifford Odets), "The Tenth Man" (Paddy Chayefsky), "Fiddler on the Roof" (Stein, Bock and Harnick), "Cabaret" (Masteroff, Kander and Ebb), "The Price" (Arthur Miller) and "Table Settings" (James Lapine).
High Flying Adored: Hero and Hero Worship in the Musicals of Rice and Webber (B52)
By John Bush Jones
Department Theatre Arts (retired)
The theme of hero and hero worshippers in the collaborations of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber: "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita" are examined.
You Are What You Are: Jewish Identity in Recent American Drama
Syllabus-100
By John Bush Jones
Department Theatre Arts (retired)
This syllabus explores questions of Jewish identity in the following plays by Jewish-American dramatists: Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues"; Israel Horovitz's "Growing Up Jewish Trilogy" ("Today I Am a Fountain Pen," "A Rosen by Any Other Name" and "The Chopin Playoffs"); Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy"; Barbara Lebow's "A Shayna Maidel"; Herb Gardner's "Conversations With My Father"; and Wendy Wasserstein's "The Sisters Rosenzweig." Included for each play is a brief introduction with biographical notes on the playwright and a list of study questions.
Art Isn't Easy: Sondheim on Sondheim in "Sunday in the Park With George"
Brieflet-12
By John Bush Jones
Department Theatre Arts (retired)
A fascinating study of "Sunday in the Park With George," Stephen Sondheim's personal manifesto on art and the artist, this guide considers this complex work from four critical perspectives. Discussed are the relationships between art and the audience, art and the critics, art and the artist, and art and life.
Access Files
The Access Files is a collection of multidisciplinary teacher guides. Each piece is generic and may be used with any specific discussion within a general topic. The following are available:
- Plays on the Stage (John Bush Jones, Theatre Arts)
- Play on the Page (John Bush Jones, Theatre Arts)
- Novels (William Flesch, English)
- Poetry (William Flesch, English)
- Leading Questions for Television News (Susan Moeller, American Studies)
- Leading Questions for News in Print (Susan Moeller, American Studies)
- The Enjoyment of Opera (Bonnie Gordon, Music)