Humanities Homework Help

1. How does “Howl” represent the changing response to repression from the 1950s to the present? What connections can you make between the ideas and themes in “Howl” and today’s protests?
2. Why was the novel, The Price of Salt so important both today and in the past? How has representation of GLBT changed in the last 50 years in literature, media and film?

References:

1. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. (1952). Chapter one.

1b. The importance of the ending of The Price of Salt.

2. Allen Ginsberg: “Howl” — the poem was subject to an obscenity trial in part because of its explicit gay themes.

2b.Listen to Ginsburg read “Howl”

3. Letters to One – Read any two chapters.