Hum 220 | Spring 2006

HUMANITIES 220
Spring Semester 2006

Texts for this course

Flaubert, Madame Bovary (Penguin)
Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil (Oxford UP)
Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground (Vintage)
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals (Hackett)
Wagner, The Ring of the Nibelungen (Norton)
Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Norton)
Gauguin, Noa Noa (Dover)
Freud, The Freud Reader (Norton)
Mann, Death in Venice (Norton)
Kafka, The Complete Stories (Schocken/Random House)
Ferro, The Great War (Routledge)
Jünger, Storm of Steel (Penguin)
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich)
Lenin, The Lenin Anthology (Norton)
Kracauer, The Salaried Masses (Verso)
Burleigh, The Third Reich: A New History (Hill & Wang)
Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (Simon & Schuster)

Reading Schedule

Modernity, the City, and the Anti-Hero

Week 1 (23-27 January): Critiquing the Romantic Self
Flaubert , Madame Bovary

M: Lecture on Flaubert (Hugh Hochman)

Week 2 (30 January-3 February): Visualizing the Spaces of Modernity
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T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, chap. 2 (main reserves)
       Be sure to study the images on the course website carefully!
Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life” (e-reserves)
Wolff, “The Invisible Flaneuse,” (e-reserves)

M: Lecture on Paris and Painting (James van Dyke)

Week 3 (6-10 February): Experiencing the Modern City
Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil
       (read: “To the Reader,” “Correspondences,” “Hymn to Beauty,” “A Carcass,” “Invitation to the Voyage,”
       “Spleen (IV),” “Landscape,” “The Sun,” “The Swan,” “The Seven Old Men,” “To a Woman Passing By.”)
Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground

M: Lecture on Baudelaire (Hugh Hochman)
W: Lecture on Dostoevsky (Lena Lencek)

Week 4 (13-17 February): Undermining Liberal Certainties
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals

M: Lecture on Nietzsche (Ben Lazier)

Modernism, Empire, and the Fragmented Subject

Week 5 (20-24 February): Nationalism and Revolution
Screenings of Wagner, Rhinegold
Sunday, 19 February, 7 pm in Psych 105
Tuesday, 21 February, 7 pm in Psych 105

J.S. Mill, “Of Nationality” from Representative Government (1861) http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/poltheory/mill/repgov/repgov.c16.html
Renan, “What is a Nation?” (1882) (e-reserves)
Gandhi, “Hind Swaraj” (1909), chaps. 1, 4, 6-7, 9, 13-14, 17-20 (e-reserves)
Wagner, Rhinegold, in The Ring of the Nibelungen; “
Wagner, Jews in Music,” from Wagner on Music and Drama (http://users.belgacom.net/wagnerlibrary/prose/wagjuda.htm)

M: Lecture on the Nation-State and Nationalism (Ed Segel)
W: Lecture on Wagner (David Schiff)

Week 6 (27 February-3 March): Empire and Ambivalence
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Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Gauguin, Noa Noa
Be sure to study the images on the course website carefully!

M: Lecture on Conrad (Roger Porter)
W: Lecture on Gauguin (James van Dyke)

Week 7 (6-10 March): Fragmenting the Subject
Freud, The Freud Reader (your conference leader will select the readings)

M: Lecture on Freud (Katja Garloff)

*************** SPRING BREAK ***************

Week 8 (20-24 March): Modernist Fiction
Mann, Death in Venice
Kafka, The Complete Stories (your conference leader will select the readings)

M: Lecture on Mann (Roger Porter)
W: Lecture on Kafka (Roger Porter)

Modernization, the Trenches, and the Survivor