Flaubert, Madame Bovary (Penguin)
Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil (Oxford UP)
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals (Hackett)
Darwin: Darwin (Norton)
Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Norton)
Gauguin, Noa Noa (Dover)
Freud, The Freud Reader (Norton)
Mann, Death in Venice (Norton)
Kafka, The Complete Stories (Schocken/Random House)
Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford)
Jünger, Storm of Steel (Penguin)
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich)
Lenin, The Lenin Anthology (Norton)
Bulgakov: Heart of a Dog (Grove)
Kracauer, The Salaried Masses (Verso)
Arendt: Totalitarianism (Harcourt)
Browning: Ordinary Men (Harper)
Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (Simon & Schuster)
Week 1 (January 22-26)
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
M: Lecture on Flaubert (Hugh Hochman)
Week 2 (January 29-February 2)
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Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life” (e-reserves)
Wolff, “The Invisible Flaneuse,” (e-reserves)
Optional: T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, chap. 2 (main reserves)
(Study the images above)
Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil:
(“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 and Painting (James van Dyke)
W: Lecture on Baudelaire (Hugh Hochman)
Week 3 (February 5-9)
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals
M: Lecture on Nietzsche (Ben Lazier)
Week 4 (February 12-16)
Darwin, Darwin, selections from The Origin of Species (pp. 95-8, 106-135, 158-174) and from The Descent of Man (pp. 175-229, 243-254)
M: Lecture on Darwin (Ben Lazier)
Week 5 (February 19-23)
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Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Gauguin, Noa Noa
(Study the images above)
M: Lecture on Conrad (Roger Porter)
W: Lecture on Gauguin (James van Dyke)
Week 6 (February 26-March 2)
Freud, The Freud Reader (your conference leader will select the readings)
M: Lecture on Freud (Jan Mieszkowski)
Week 7 (March 5-9)
Kafka, The Complete Stories (your conference leader will select the readings)
Mann, Death in Venice
M: Lecture on Kafka (Roger Porter)
W: Lecture on Mann (Roger Porter)
Week 8 (March 19-23)
Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, pp. 3-51, 75-82, 169-190, 326-335
Jünger, Storm of Steel , pp. 5-66, 204-256, 274-289
Jünger, “Fire,” (e-reserves)
M: Lecture on World War One (Brian Kassof)
W: Lecture on Representations of War (James van Dyke)
Week 9 (March 26-30)
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
M: Lecture on Woolf (Jay Dickson)
Week 10 (April 2-6)
Lenin, The Lenin Reader (your conference leader will select the readings)
Screening of Eisenstein, film of Battleship Potemkin, in Psych. 105 on Tues. and Wed., April 3 and 4, at 7:00 each night
Eisenstein, “The Montage of Attractions” (e-reserves)
M: Lecture on the Russian Revolution (Brian Kassof)
W: Lecture on Eisenstein (Katja Garloff)
Week 11 (April 9-April 13)
Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
Kracauer, The Salaried Masses
W: Lecture on the Weimar Republic (Ben Lazier)
Week 12 (April 16-20)
Arendt: Totalitarianism
M: Lecture on Totalitarianism (Ben Lazier)
Week 13 (April 23-27)
Browning, Ordinary Men, pp. xv-xxii, 1-8, 39-77, 121-142, 159, 189.
Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
Celan, “Death Fugue” (e-reserves)
M: Panel Discussion on the Holocaust (Ben Lazier and Brian Kassof)
W: Lecture on Holocaust Literature (Katja Garloff