BOOKS FOR THE SEMESTER

Humanities 220 Pamphlet

Clark: The Painting of Modern Life

Flaubert: Madame Bovary (Penguin)

Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground (Dover)

Wagner: Valkyrie (English National Opera Guides)

Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals

Blackbourn: The Long Nineteenth Century (RESERVE)

Fraisse and Perrot: History of Women Vol. IV (RESERVE)

Ibsen: A Doll House (Signet)

Conrad: Heart of Darkness (Norton, 3^rd edition)

Gay, ed.: The Freud Reader (Norton)

Kafka: The Complete Stories (Schocken)

Harrison: Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction (Yale)

Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (Fawcett)

Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway (Harcourt-Brace)

Fitzpatrick: The Russian Revolution (2^nd edition)

Tucker, ed.: The Lenin Anthology (Norton)

Housden: Hitler: Study of a Revolutionary? (Routledge)

Levi: Survival in Auschwitz (Touchstone)

Rabinow, (ed.): The Foucault Reader (Pantheon)

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WEEK 1 (JAN. 22-26): AN END TO ROMANTICISM: REALISM AS SUBVERSION

Flaubert: Madame Bovary

Lecture on Madame Bovary: Betsy Duquette, Mon., Jan. 22

Lecture on Consumerism: Jacqueline Dirks, Wed., Jan 24

WEEK 2 (JAN. 29-FEB. 2): THE CITY, MANET, AND MODERNISM

Your conference leader will choose from the following selections:

George Simmel: "The Metropolis and Mental Life"; Walter Benjamin, "Paris, Capital of the

Nineteenth Century;" Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life" (Humanities Pamphlet)

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

 

Lecture on Paris: Mueller, Mon., Jan. 29 

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

WEEKS 3, 4 and first half of 5 (FEB. 5 - 20): MODERNIST REBELLION

Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground

Wagner: The Valkyrie (Libretto and Film)

The film will be shown on Tuesday, Feb. 6 at 7:00 p.m. in Psych. 105; and Wed, Feb. 7, at 7:00 p.m. in Psych. 105; and Thurs. Feb. 8, at 7:00 p.m. in Psych. 105

Plot summary of The Ring (Humanities Pamphlet)

Blackbourn: The Long Nineteenth Century, pp. 207-224; 270-283; 302-310 (RESERVE)

Knibiehler: "Bodies and Hearts," in Fraisse and Perrot (eds.) The History of Women, Vol. IV, pp. 325-368 (RESERVE)

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

Ibsen: A Doll House

Perrot, "Stepping Out," in Fraisse and Perrot, History of Women, Vol. IV, pp. 449-481 (RESERVE)

Lecture on Dostoevsky: Smith, Mon., Feb. 5

Lecture on Wagner: David Schiff, Wed., Feb. 7

 

Lecture on Nietzsche: David Reeve, Mon., Feb. 12

Lecture on Wagner and Nietzsche: Mueller, Wed., Feb. 14

 

Lecture on Ibsen: Porter, Mon., Feb. 19

Second half of WEEK 5, and 6 and7 (FEB. 21-March 9): THE UNCONSCIOUS AND MODERNISM

Perry: "Primitivism and the ‘Modern,’" in Harrison, et al: Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction, pp. 3-34, 46-62, 82

Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Chinua Achebe: "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" (in Heart of Darkness [Norton Critical Edition, 3^rd 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 Primitivism: Van Dyke, Wed., Feb. 21

 

Lecture on Heart of Darkness: Porter, Mon., Feb. 26

Lecture on Freud: Lena Lencek, Wed., Feb. 28

 

Lecture on Kafka: Porter, Wed., Mar. 7

WEEK 8 (MAR. 12-16): MODERNISM AND WAR

Frascina: "Realism and Ideology," in Harrison: Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction, pp.87-180

Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (Your conference leader will make selections)

Jünger: Storm of Steel (selection in Humanities Pamphlet)

 

Lecture on War as Experience and Memory: Gökberk, Wed., Mar. 14 

 

 

-- SPRING BREAK --

WEEK 9 (MAR. 26-30): AFTERMATH OF WAR

Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

Lecture on Mrs. Dalloway: Tom Gillcrist: Wed. Mar. 28

 

WEEK 10 (APRIL 2-6): THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Fitzpatrick: The Russian Revolution, (2^nd. edition) 40-72, 93-96, 106-63

Lenin: The Lenin Anthology, pp. 335-50, 369-84

Harrison, "Abstraction," in Harrison: Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction, pp. 185-249

optional: Greenberg: "Avant Garde and Kitsch" (Humanities Pamphlet)

 

Lecture on the Russian Revolution: Smith, Mon., April 2

Lecture on Russian Avant-Garde, Utopia and Totalitarianism: Van Dyke, Wed., April 4

WEEK 11 (APRIL 9-13): TOTALITARIAN REGIMES IN COMPARISON

Fitzpatrick: Everyday Stalinism, (selection in Humanities Pamphlet)

Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago, (selection in Humanities Pamphlet)

Housden: Hitler, Study of a Revolutionary? (N.B. Each Document is followed by a short

commentary which is included in the assignment): Documents: 1.3; 1.4; 2.1; 2.2; 2.3; 2.9; 2.10; 2.16; 3.4; 3.5; 3.11; 3.14; 3.15; 4.4; 4.5; 4.13; 4.14; 4.18; 4.19; 5.15; 5.19; 5.20; 6.5; 6.6; 6.7; 6.8; 6.9; 6.10; 6.11; 6.12; 6.13; 6.14; 6.15; and chapter 9 (Conclusion)

 

Lecture on Stalin and the Terror: Smith, Mon., April 9

Lecture on Hitler and Genocide: Mueller, Wed., April 11

 

WEEK 12 (April 16-20): THE HOLOCAUST IN MODERN CULTURE

Levi: Survival in Auschwitz

Celan: "The Death Fugue" (Humanities Pamphlet)

Shoah Part I (film).

The film will be shown Sunday, April 15 at 7:00 p.m., in Psych 105; Monday, April 16 at 7:00 p.m. in Psych 105; Tuesday, April 17 at 7:00 p.m., in Psych 105, and Wed., April 18, at 7:00 p.m., in Psych 105

 

Lecture on the Holocaust: Katja Garloff, Mon., April 16

Panel on Shoah: Mueller, Van Dyke, Smith, Wed., April 18

 

WEEK 13 (April 23-27): A NEW PARADIGM OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Rabinow (ed.): The Foucault Reader (Your conference leader will choose selections)

Habermas: "Modernity: An Unfinished Project," (Humanities Pamphlet)

 

Lecture on Foucault: Darius Rejali, Mon., April 23