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HUMANITIES 220
Spring Semester 2004
TEXTS FOR THE COURSE:
Alain Corbin, Women for Hire
Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil
T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life
Wagner, The Valkyrie
M. Owen Lee, Wagner’s Ring: Turning the Sky Round
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals
Charles Harrison et al, Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Freud, The Freud Reader
Cottington, Cubism
Kafka, The Complete Stories
Marc Ferro, The Great War, 1914-1918
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
Lenin, The Lenin Reader
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich: a New History
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
READINGS, FILMS, AND LECTURES:
Week 1 (Jan. 26 - 30): Paris: "Bourgeoisie" and "Modernism"
Theodore Zeldin, France, 1848-1945, Vol. I, Ambition, Love, and Politics, pp. 1-3, 11-22, 53-76, 113-130, 286-314, 343-362 (Reserve and Pamphlet)
Alain Corbin, Women for Hire, pp. 3-29, 46-63, 115-122. 132-143, 186-206, 261-264, 322-325, 331-333.
Emile Durkheim, from Rules of Sociological Method, pp. 64-75 (Reserve).
Lecture on Bourgeoisie and Modernism: Mon., Jan. 26 (C. Mueller)
Lecture on Parisian Boundaries: Wed., Jan. 28 (C. Mueller)
Week 2 (Feb. 2 - Feb. 6): Poetry, Painting and the Modern City
Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil: "To The Reader," "The Albatross," "Correspondences," "Hymn To Beauty," "Head of Hair." "A Carcass," "Invitation to the Voyage," "Spleen (IV)," "Landscape," "The Swan," "To A Woman Passing By."
T.J. Clark, "Olympia’s Choice," in The Painting of Modern Life (Bookstore and Reserve)
Lecture on Baudelaire: Mon., Feb. 2 (H. Hochman)
Lecture on Paris and Modernity: Wed., Feb. 4 (J. van Dyke)
Week 3 (Feb. 9 - Feb. 13): Cultural Constructions of the Nation
Wagner, The Valkyrie
Wagner, "Jews in Music," from Wagner on Music and Drama : http://users.belgacom.net/wagnerlibrary/prose/wagjuda.htm
M. Owen Lee, Wagner’s Ring: Turning the Sky Round
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 5-46; 67-111; 141-154
Showings of The Valkyrie :
Sun., Feb. 8, at 6:00 PM in Psych. 105;
Mon., Feb. 9, at 6:00 PM in Psych 102;
Tues., Feb. 10, at 6:00 PM in Psych. 105.
Lecture on Wagner: Mon., Feb. 9 (L. Falk)
Panel on Nationalism and Anti-Semitism: Wed., Feb. 11 (E. Segel and K. Garloff)
Week 4 (Feb. 16 - Feb. 20): Undermining Liberal Certainties
Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals
Lecture on Dostoevsky: Mon., Feb. 16 (L. Lencek)
Week 5 (Feb. 23 - Feb. 27): Modernism and the Primitive
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals
Gill Perry, "Primitivism and the ‘Modern’," in Charles Harrison, Frascina, and Perry, Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction, pp. 3-45 (Bookstore and Reserve)
Gauguin, selection from Synthetist Theories (Pamphlet)
Lecture on Nietzsche: Mon., Feb. 23 (J. Mieszkowski)
Lecture on Gauguin’s Primitivism: Wed., Feb. 25 (J. Van Dyke)
Week 6 (March 1 - March 5): Modernism and the Unconscious
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Freud, The Freud Reader (your conference leader will select the readings)
Lecture on Heart of Darkness: Mon., March 1 (M. Mirabile)
Lecture on Freud: Wed., March 3 (K. Garloff)
Week 7 (March 8 - March 12): Perceptions of Space and Time
Freud, The Freud Reader
David Cottington, Cubism
Lecture on Cubism: Wed., March 8 (J. Van Dyke)
SPRING BREAK
(March 13 - March 21)
Week 8 (March 22 - March 26): Modernism and World War
Kafka, The Complete Stories (your conference leader will select the readings)
Marc Ferro, The Great War, 1914-1918, chs. 9-12, 14
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, chs. 1-2
Lecture on Kafka: Mon., March 22 (K. Garloff)
Lecture on World War One: Wed., March 24 (E. Segel)
Week 9 (March 29 - April 2): Revolution and Art
Ferro, The Great War, chs 15. 16.
Lenin, The Lenin Reader, pp. 311-335, 369-384, 461-476
Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," (Pamphlet)
Showings of Battleship Potemkin:
Mon., March 29 at 7:30 PM in Psych 102;
Tues., March 30 at 7:30 P.M. in Psych. 105;
Wed., March 31 at 7:30 P.M. in Psych. 105.
Lecture on Lenin: Mon., March 29 (C. Mueller)
Lecture on Eisenstein and Avant-Garde Film: Wed., March 31(K. Garloff)
Week 10 (April 5 - April 9): Modernist London
Eliot, The Wasteland
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Lecture on The Wasteland: Mon., April 5 (E. Stauder)
Lecture on Mrs. Dalloway: Wed., April 7 (J. Dickson)
Week 11 (April 12 - April 16): Art and Theory of the Modern
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Simmel, selection from "Metropolis and Mental Life:;" Weber, selections from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, "On Bureaucracy," and "The Sociology of Charismatic Authority" (Pamphlet)
Ruttmann, Berlin: Symphony of the City
Showings of Berlin: Symphony of the City:
Mon., April 12, at 7:30 P.M. in Psych 102;
Tues., April 13, at 7:30 P.M. in Psych. 105;
Wed., April 14 at 7:30 P.M. in Vollum Lecture Hall.
Lecture on Woolf: Mon., April 12 (T. Gillcrist)
Panel on Theories of Modernity: Wed., April 14 (M. Mirabile and C. Mueller)
Week 12 (April 19 - April 23): Third Reich and the Holocaust
Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich: a New History, pp. 12-14; 27-34; 45-62; 85-101; 109-121; 149-157; 169-185; 190-215; 323-342; 382-388; 441-451; 571-662.
Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will (optional)
Showings of Triumph of the Will:
Sunday, April 18 at 7:30 P.M. in Psych. 105;
Monday, April 19 at 7:30 P.M. in Psych 102.
Lecture on the Third Reich: Mon., April 19 (C. Mueller)
Lecture on the Holocaust: Wed., April 21 (C. Mueller)
Week 13 (April 26 - April 30): Witnessing the Holocaust
Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
Celan, "Death Fugue," "Corroded Away"(Pamphlet)
Lecture on Holocaust Literature: Mon., April 26 (K. Garloff)