Texts in order of use:
Mill, John Stuart, On Liberty. (Penguin)
Tucker, Robert, The Marx-Engels Reader. (Norton)
Clark, T. J., The Painting of Modern Life. (Princeton)
Williams, Rosalind, Dream Worlds. (California)
Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary. (New American Library)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Notes from the Underground. (Dutton)
Nietzsche, Friedrich, Genealogy of Morals. (Random House)
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness. (Dover)
Mosse, George, Nationalism and Sexuality.
Gay, Peter, The Freud Reader. (Norton)
Kafka, Franz, The Complete Stories. (Random House)
Fussell, Paul, The Great War and Modern Memory. (Oxford)
Eliot, T. S., "The Waste Land". (Harcourt Brace)
Read, Christopher, From Tsar to Soviets. (Oxford)
Hughes, Robert, Shock of the New. (Knopf)
Peukert, Detlev, The Weimar Republic. (Yale)
Brecht, Bertolt, The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays. (Grove)
Palmer & Colton's History of the Modern World serves as a history text for the course and will provide background for class readings. It is available in the Library. There is no Humanities pamphlet this year; readings from Baudelaire and Benjamin (the third week of class) are available from Library Reserve.
Week..........Readings/Lectures
1...............LIBERALISM TO MARXISM
................Mill, On Liberty.
................Robert Tucker, The Marx-Engels Reader, p. 66-109, 146-200, 469-500.
........Lecture: Tomsich, Jan. 27. (M)
2...............MARX
................Reading from Tucker continues this week.
........Lecture: Mueller/Tomsich, Feb. 3. (M)
3...............ART LOOKS AT URBAN LIFE
................T. J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, Chap. 1.
................Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life, p. 5-15, 26-38. Library Reserve.
............. ..Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire, p. 35-66. Library Reserve.
4...............BOURGEOIS CONSUMERISM
................T. J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, Chap. 2
and 4.
........Lecture: Diebold, Feb. 17. (M)
................Williams, Dream Worlds, p. 1-15, 58-106.
........Lecture: Dirks, Feb. 19 (W)
5..............AN END TO ROMANTICISM
................Flaubert, Madame Bovary.
........Lecture: Shuh, Feb. 24. (M)
6..............UNDERGROUND
................Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground.
........Lecture: Isenberg, Mar. 3 (M)
................Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, Chaps. 1-2.
........Lecture: Tomsich, Mar 5. (W)
7..............AT THE HEART OF DARKNESS
................Reading from Nietzsche continues this week.
................Conrad, The Heart of Darkness.
8..............INTO THE PSYCHE
................Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality, P. 1-20, 23-40, 48-58,
90-113, 133-152.
................Gay, The Freud Reader, conference leaders will specify selections.
........Lecture: Lencek, Mar. 17. (M)
SPRING RECESS
9..............ANXIETY
................Reading from Gay continues this week.
................Kafka, The Complete Stories, conference leaders will specify
selections.
........Lecture: Doebeling, Apr. 2. (W)
10..............THE GREAT WAR
................Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, Chaps. 1-2.
................T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land".
........Lecture: Segel, April 7. (M)
11..............THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
................Read, From Tsar to Soviets, sels.
................Hughes, Shock of the New, p. 81-97.
........Lecture: Mueller, Apr. 14. (M)
12..............WEIMAR
................Peukert, The Weimar Republic, Chaps. 1, 8-9.
........Lecture: Segel, Apr. 21. (M)
13..............ART AND POLITICS
................Brecht, "The Measures Taken", in The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays.
........Lecture: Doebeling, Apr. 28. (M)
................Mosse, p. 114-32, 153-80.
................Movie: Olympia, Apr. 27 and 28. (S and M) Psychology Auditorium, 7:30
p.m.
........Lecture: Diebold, Apr. 30. (W)