BOOKS FOR THE SEMESTER:

Humanities 220 Pamphlet
Robert Paxton: Europe in the Twentieth Century (reserve only)
Robert Tucker, ed.: The Marx Reader
T.J. Clark: The Painting of Modern Life
Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Peter Gay, ed.: The Freud Reader
Kafka: The Complete Stories
David Cottington: Cubism
Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
Sheila Fitzpatrick: The Russian Revolution
Robert Tucker, ed.: The Lenin Anthology
Götz Aly: The 'Final Solution'
Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz

WEEK 1 (JAN. 24-JAN. 28): MARX AND MODERNITY

Robert Tucker, ed.: The Marx-Engels Reader (your instructor will select the readings for your conference)

First lecture on Marx: Peter Steinberger, Mon., Jan. 24

Second lecture on Marx: Christine Mueller, Wed., Jan. 26

WEEK 2 (JAN. 31-FEB. 4): MID-CENTURY PARIS, MANET, AND MODERNITY

T.J. Clark: The Painting of Modern Life, Chap. 1 and 2

Robert Herbert: Impression: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, pp. xii-xv, 33-57, 303-306 (On reserve only)

Lecture on Manet: William Diebold, Mon., Jan. 31

Lecture on French Bourgeois Culture: Christine Mueller, Wed., Feb 2

WEEK 3 (FEB. 7-FEB. 11): AN END TO ROMANTICISM: REALISM AS SUBVERSION

Flaubert: Madame Bovary

Lecture on Madame Bovary: Betsy Duquette, Wed., Feb. 9

WEEKS 4-5 (FEB. 14-FEB. 25): IRRATIONALITY AND THE MORAL LIFE

Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground

Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals, Sections I and III

Wagner: Das Rheingold (Libretto and Film). Film will be shown Sunday, Feb. 20 19; Tuesday, Feb. 22; and Wednesday, Feb. 23 Monday, Feb. 20, at 7:00 p.m. in Psych. 105.

Plot summary of The Ring (Humanities Pamphlet)

Lecture on Dostoevsky: Scott Smith, Mon., Feb. 14

Lecture on Nietzsche: David Reeve, Wed., Feb. 16

Lecture on Mid-19th Century Germany: Christine Mueller, Mon. Feb. 21

Lecture on Wagner: David Schiff, Wed., Feb. 23

WEEKS 6-7 (FEB. 28-MARCH 10): THE UNCONSCIOUS AND MODERN ANXIETY

Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Chinua Achebe: "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" (in Heart of Darkness [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd edition])

Peter Gay, ed.: The Freud Reader (your instructor will select the readings for your conference)

Kafka: The Complete Stories (Your instructor will choose the stories)

Lecture on Imperialism: Ed Segel, Mon. Feb. 28

Lecture on Heart of Darkness: Garrick Duckler, Wed., Mar. 1

Lecture on Freud: Garrick Duckler, Mon., Mar. 6

Lecture on Kafka: Katja Garloff, Wed., Mar. 8

WEEK 8 (MAR. 13-MAR. 17): MODERN ART

David Cottington: Cubism

Clement Greenberg: "Avant Garde and Kitsch," "Toward a Newer Laocoon," "The Pasted-Paper Revolution" (Humanities Pamphlet)

Lecture on Modern Art: William Diebold, Mon., Mar. 13

WEEK 9 (MAR. 27-31): THE GREAT WAR AND THE WASTE LAND

Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory, pp. 3-75, 155-190, 248-50

Selected poetry from the World War (Humanities Pamphlet)

T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land

Annotations for The Waste Land (Humanities Pamphlet)

Lecture on World War I: Ed Segel, Mon., Mar. 27

Lecture on The Waste Land: Ellen Stauder, Wed., March 29

WEEK 10 (APRIL 3-APRIL 7): WOMEN AND MODERNISM

Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

Lecture on Mrs. Dalloway: Tom Gillcrist: Wednesday, April 5

WEEK 11 (APRIL 10-14): THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Sheila Fitzpatrick: The Russian Revolution, 15-31, 40-67, 83-92

Lenin: The Lenin Anthology, pp. 335-350, 369-384, 423-432

Potemkin (film). (Film will be shown on Tuesday, April 11 at 7:00 pm in Psych. 105 and Wednesday, April 12 at 7:00 pm in Vollum Lecture Hall

Lecture on the Russian Revolution: Scott Smith, Mon., April 10

Lecture on Potemkin and Eisenstein's Film Theory: Katja Garloff, Wed., April 12

WEEKS 12-13 (April 17-28): NAZISM AND THE HOLOCAUST

Götz Aly: The 'Final Solution', pp. TBA 1-9; 14-29; 59-81; 105-128; 149-177; 195-202; 214-221; 225-236; 243-249; 256-260.

The Triumph of the Will (film). Film will be shown on Tuesday, April 18 and Wednesday, April 19, at 7:00 pm in Psych. 105.

Susan Sontag: "Fascinating Fascism" (Humanities Pamphlet)

Levi: Survival in Auschwitz

Celan: "The Death Fugue" (Humanities Pamphlet)

Shoah Part I (film). The film will be shown Sunday, April 23, Tues., April 25, and Wed., April 26, at 7:00 p.m., in Psych 105.

Lecture on Nazi Germany: Christine Mueller, Mon., April 17

Lecture on The Nazi Aesthetic: William Diebold, Wed., April 19

Lecture on the Holocaust: Katja Garloff, Mon. April 24