HUMANITIES 220

Spring Semester 2005

TEXTS FOR THE COURSE:

Humanities 220 Pamphlet

T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life (Princeton UP)

Perrot, ed, A History of Private Life (Belknap Press of Harvard UP)

Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil (Oxford UP)

Wagner, The Ring of the Nibelungen (Norton)

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (Verso/Norton)

Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground (Knopf)

Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals (Hackett)

Gauguin, Noa Noa (Dover)

Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Norton)

David Cottington, Cubism (Cambridge UP)

Freud, The Freud Reader (Norton)

Mann, Death in Venice (Norton)

Kafka, The Complete Stories (Schocken/Random House)

Marc Ferro, The Great War (Routledge)

Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford UP)

Lenin, The Lenin Reader (Norton)

Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich)

Brecht, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Arcade)

Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich: A New History (Hill & Wang)

Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (Simon & Schuster)

READINGS, FILMS, AND LECTURES

WEEK 1 (1/24-1/28): Paris: “Bourgeoisie” and “Modernism”

T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, chap. 1

Michelle Perrot, ed., A History of Private Life, vol. IV (From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War), pp. 167-213, 228-259, 359-374, 390-404.

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.”)

M: Lecture on Paris (Eliza Ferguson)

W: Lecture on Baudelaire (Hugh Hochman)

WEEK 2 (1/31-2/4): Poetry, Painting, and the Modern City

Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life” (pamphlet)

Janet Wolff, “The Invisible Flaneuse”(pamphlet)

T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, chap. 2

M: Lecture on Manet (James van Dyke)

WEEK 3 (2/7-2/11): Cultural Constructions of the Nation

Richard 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

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, pp. 5-46, 67-111, 141-154.

Showings of Rhinegold:

Sun., Feb. 6, 7 pm in Psych 105

Mon., Feb. 7, 7 pm in Vollum Lecture Hall

M: Lecture on Wagner (David Schiff)

W: Lecture on Nationalism (Ed Segel)

WEEK 4 (2/14-2/18): Undermining Liberal Certainties

Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground

Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals

M: Lecture on Dostoevsky (Lena Lencek)

W: Lecture on Nietzsche (Jan Mieszkowski)

WEEK 5 (2/21-2/25): Undermining Liberal Certainties; Modernism and Primitivism

Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals

Gauguin, Noa Noa

W: Lecture on Gauguin (Jim van Dyke)

WEEK 6 (2/28-3/4): Primitivism and Modernism

Conrad, Heart of Darkness

David Cottington, Cubism

M: Lecture on Conrad (Roger Porter)

W: Lecture on Cubism (Jim van Dyke)

WEEK 7 (3/7-3/11): Modernism and the Unconscious

Freud, The Freud Reader (your conference leader will select the readings)

M: Lecture on Freud (Katja Garloff)

SPRING BREAK

WEEK 8 (3/21-3/25): Modernism and Masculinity

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)

WEEK 9 (3/28-4/1): War and Revolution

Marc Ferro, The Great War, chs. 9-12, 14-16

Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, chs. 1-2

Lenin, The Lenin Reader, pp. 311-335, 369-384, 461-476

M: Lecture on World War One (Ed Segel)

W: Lecture on Lenin and the Russian Revolution (Chris Mueller)

WEEK 10 (4/4-4/8): Modernist London

Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

M: Lecture on Woolf (Jay Dickson)

WEEK 11 (4/11-4/15): Revolutionary Culture

Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin

Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (pamphlet)

Brecht, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Brecht, “The Modern Theatre is Epic Theatre,” “Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction,” and “Short Description of a New Technique of Acting which Produces an Estrangement Effect” (pamphlet)

Showings of Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin:

Sun., April 10, 7 pm in Psych 105

Mon, April 11, 7 pm in Vollum Lecture Hall

M: Lecture on Eisenstein and Avant-Garde Film (Katja Garloff)

W: Lecture on Brecht (Roger Porter)

WEEK 12 (4/18-4/22): The 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

Showings of Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will:

Sun., April 17, 7 pm in Vollum Lecture Hall

Mon., April 18, 7 pm in Psych 105

M: Lecture on Third Reich (Chris Mueller)

W: Lecture on Holocaust (Chris Mueller)

WEEK 13 (4/25-4/29): Witnessing the Holocaust

Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

Celan, “Death Fugue,”(handout) “Corroded Away” (pamphlet)

M: Lecture on Holocaust Literature (Katja Garloff)