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2013: A World in Motion

Literature

Movement in Poetry, Film, and Prose

  1. Travel Writing

    • Blue Highways | William Least Heat-Moon | Chapter 1
    • In a Sunburned Country | Bill Bryson | Excerpts from Chapters 1 & 2
    • The Travels of Marco Polo | Brief Selections
    • The Death of Josseline | Excerpt
    • “Why We Travel” | Pico Iyer
  2. Poetry

    1. Voices of Migration
      • “Lines Written in Oregon” | Vladimir Nabokov
      • “The New Colossus” | Emma Lazarus
      • “Prospective Immigrants Please Note” | Adrienne Rich
      • “Chicago Zen” | A. K. Ramanujan
    2. The Poetry of Going Places
      • “Ode to Bicycles”  | Pablo Neruda
      • “To a Locomotive in Winter” | Walt Whitman
      • “High Flight” | John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
      • “Filling Station” | Elizabeth Bishop
      • “Oh the Places You’ll Go” | Dr. Seuss
  3. Short Stories

    • Ken Liu | “Paper Menagerie”
    • Jumpa Lahiri | “Once in a Lifetime”
  4. Film

    • Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
    • Opening of Up
    • “I’ll Wait for the Next One”
    • “PaperMan”
    • October Sky

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