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HUMANITIES 220 SYLLABUS
Spring Semester, 2002
Texts for the course:
Humanities 220 Pamphlet
Flaubert: Mme Bovary
Eisenman: Nineteenth Century Art
Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde
Ibsen: A Doll House
Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Freud: The Freud Reader
Kafka: The Complete Stories
Ferro: The Great War, 1914-1918
Fussel: The Great War and Modern Memory (reserve only)
Ginzburg: Blockade Diary
Eliot: The Wasteland
Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
Lenin: The Lenin Reader
Burleigh and Wipperman: The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945
Browning: Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers
Levi: Survival in Auschwitz
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READING AND LECTURES
WEEK 1 (JAN. 21-JAN. 25): AN END TO ROMANTICISM: REALISM AS SUBVERSION
Flaubert: Mme Bovary
Lecture on Madame Bovary: Monday, Jan. 21 (Salah Khan)
WEEKS 2-3 (JAN. 28-FEB. 8): ART AND THE MODERN CITY
Theodore Zeldin: France, 1848-1945 (electronic reserve)
Baudelaire: "The Painter of Modern Life" (pamphlet)
Stephen Eisenman: Nineteenth Century Art: pp. 238-254
Baudelaire: poems from Spleen and Fleurs du Mal (pamphlet)
Marshall Berman: from All that is Solid Melts into Air (pamphlet)
Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground
Lecture on Class in Modern Society: Monday, Jan. 28 (Christine Mueller)
Lecture on Manet: Wednesday, Jan. 30 (James van Dyke)
Lecture on Notes from the Underground: Wednesday, Feb. 6 (Scott Smith)
WEEK 4-5 (FEB. 11-FEB. 20): ATTACKS ON BOURGEOIS IDEALISM
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde (the libretto)
Ibsen: A Doll House
Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals (your instructor will make assignments from the text)
(There will be showings of selections from Tristan and Isolde on Sunday, Feb. 10 and Monday, Feb. 11, each night at 7:00 in Vollum Lecture Hall)
Lecture on Wagner: Monday, Feb. 11 (David Schiff)
Lecture on Ibsen: Wednesday, Feb. 13 (Roger Porter)
Lecture on Nietzsche: Monday, February 18 (Jan Mieszkowski)
WEEK 5-6 (FEB. 20-FEB. 27): COLONIALISM IN ART AND LITERATURE
Stephen Eisenman: Nineteenth Century Art, pp. 304-336
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Lecture on Heart of Darkness: Wednesday, Feb. 20 (Roger Porter)
Lecture on Gauguin's Primitivism: Monday, Feb. 25 (James van Dyke)
WEEK 6-7 (FEB. 27-MAR. 8): MODERNISM AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
Freud: The Freud Reader [instructor's choice]
Kafka: The Complete Stories [instructor's choice]
Lecture on Freud: Wednesday, Feb. 27 (Katja Garloff)
Lecture on Kafka: Wednesday, March 6 (Katja Garloff)
-- SPRING BREAK --
WEEK 8 (MAR. 18-MAR. 22): WORLD WAR AND MODERNISM
Marc Ferro: The Great War, 1914-1918 , Chpts. 1-6, 8-12, 14.
Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory, ch. 2 (reserve)
Lidiya Ginzburg: Blockade Diary , pp. 3-77
Lecture on World War I: Monday, Mar. 18 (Ed Segel)
WEEK 9 (MAR. 25-MAR. 29): MODERNISM, ABSTRACTION AND AVANT-GARDE ART
T.S. Eliot: The Wasteland
Notes on The Wasteland (pamphlet)
Clement Greenberg: "Towards a New Laocoon," "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," and "Collage" (pamphlet)
Lecture on Abstract Art: Wednesday, Mar. 25 (James van Dyke)
Lecture on The Wasteland: Monday, Mar. 27 (Ellen Stauder)
WEEK 10 (APR. 1-APR. 5): FEMINIST FICTION IN THE AFTERMATH OF WAR
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
Lecture on Mrs. Dalloway: Monday, Apr. 1 (Jay Dickson)
WEEK 11 (APR. 8-APR. 12): SOCIALISM AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Lenin: The Lenin Reader, pp. 311-335, 369-384, 461-476
Arthur Koestler: essay from The God that Failed (pamphlet)
Film of Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin
Walter Benjamin: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (pamphlet)
(There will be showings of the video of Battleship Potemkin on Monday, April 8, Tuesday, April 9, and Wednesday, April 10, each night at 7:00 in Vollum Lecture Hall)
Lecture on Lenin: Monday, Apr. 8 (Scott Smith)
Lecture on Eisenstein and Avant-Garde Film: Wednesday, Apr. 10 (Katja Garloff)
WEEK 12 (APR. 15-APR. 19: NAZISM AND THE HOLOCAUST
Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wipperman: The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945, pp. 44-56, 77-112
Christopher Browning: Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers, pp. 1-57, 143-175
Götz Aly: "'Jewish Resettlement': Reflections on the Political Prehistory of the Holocaust" (pamphlet)
Film of Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will
(There will be showings of the video of Triumph of the Will on Wednesday, April 17 and Thursday, April 18, each night at 7:00 in Vollum Lecture Hall; the Thursday showing will be followed by a discussion of the film with several faculty members)
Lecture on The Third Reich: Monday, Apr. 15 (Christine Mueller)
Lecture on The Holocaust: Wednesday, Apr. 17 (Christine Mueller)
WEEK 13 (APR. 22-APR. 26): WITNESSING THE HOLOCAUST
Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz
Paul Celan: "Death Fugue" (pamphlet)
Christopher Browning: Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers, pp. 89-115
Lecture on Holocaust Literature: Monday, Apr. 22 (Katja Garloff)