BOOKS FOR THE SEMESTER

Humanities 220 Pamphlet
Robert Tucker, ed. The Marx-Engels Reader
Bowditch & Ramsland: Voices of the Industrial Revolution
E.P. Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class
T.J. Clark: The Painting of Modern Life
Robert Herbert: Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society (reserve only)
Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Peter Gay, ed. The Freud Reader
Kafka: The Complete Stories
Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
Charles Harrison: Modernism
Sheila Fitzpatrick: The Russian Revolution
Katerina Clark: Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution
Robert Hughes: The Shock of the New (reserve only)
Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann: The Racial State
Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz

WEEKS 1 and 2 (JAN. 25-FEB. 5): MARX AND MODERNITY

Robert Tucker, ed.: The Marx-Engels Reader (your instructor will select the readings for your conference)
Bowditch and Ramsland: Voices of the Industrial Revolution, pp. 12-34, 49-81
Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class, pp. 9-11, 189-212, 331-374, 779-806

First lecture on Marx: Peter Steinberger, Mon., Jan. 25
Second lecture on Marx: Christine Mueller, Wed., Jan. 27
Lecture on Industrial Revolution: Ed Segel, Mon., Feb. 1

WEEK 3 (FEB. 8-12): MID-CENTURY PARIS, MANET, AND MODERNITY

T.J. Clark: The Painting of Modern Life, Chap. 1 and 3
Robert Herbert: Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, pp. xii-xv, 33-57, 303-306 (On reserve only)

Lecture on Manet: William Diebold, Mon., Feb. 8

WEEK 4 (FEB. 15-19): AN END TO ROMANTICISM: REALISM AS SUBVERSION

Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Flaubert: "The Novelist on his Art," pp. 311-329

Lecture on Madame Bovary: Derek Schilling, Wed., Feb. 17

WEEK 5-6 (FEB. 22-MARCH 5): IRRATIONALITY AND THE MORAL LIFE

Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals, Sections I and III
Wagner: Das Rheingold (Libretto and Film). Film will be shown Thursday, Feb. 25 at 7:00 pm in Vollum Lounge; and Sunday, Feb. 28 and Monday, March 1, at 7:00 pm in Psych. 105
Plot summary of The Ring (Humanities Pamphlet)

Lecture on Dostoevsky: Scott Smith, Mon., Feb. 22
Lecture on Nietzsche: David Reeve, Wed., Feb. 24
Lecture on Wagner: Perry Lorenzo, Mon., March 1
Lecture on Wagner: David Schiff, Wed., March 3

WEEK 7-8 (MAR. 8-19): THE UNCONSCIOUS

Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Chinua Achebe: "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness"
Peter Gay, ed.: The Freud Reader (your instructor will select the readings for your conference)
Kafka: The Complete Stories (your instructor will choose the stories for your conference)

Lecture on Heart of Darkness: Roger Porter, Mon., Mar. 8
Lecture on Freud: Lena Lencek, Mon., Mar. 15
Lecture on Kafka: Roger Porter, Wed., Mar. 17

 

WEEK 9 (MAR. 29-30): THE GREAT WAR

Erich Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
Selected poetry from the World War (Humanities Pamphlet)

Lecture on World War I: Ed Segel, Mon., Mar. 29

WEEK 9-10 (MARCH 31-APRIL 9): MODERN POETRY AND ART

T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
Annotations for The Waste Land (handout)
Charles Harrison: Modernism
Clement Greenberg: "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" and "Towards a Newer Laocoon" (Humanities Pamphlet)

Lecture on The Waste Land: Ellen Stauder, Wed., March 31
Lecture on Modern Art: William Diebold, Mon., April 5

WEEK 11 (APRIL 12-16): THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Sheila Fitzpatrick: The Russian Revolution, pp. 15-31, 40-67, 83-92
Trotsky: from The History of the Russian Revolution (Humanities Pamphlet)
Vladimir Tatlin: "The Work Ahead of Us," and Osip Brik: "From Pictures to Textile Prints" (Humanities Pamphlet)
Katerina Clark: Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution , pp. 1-28, 122-142
Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, pp. 81-97 (on Reserve only)

Lecture on Russian Revolution: Scott Smith, Mon., April 12
Lecture on the Russian Art: Lena Lencek, Wed., April 14

WEEK 12 (April 19-23): NAZISM

Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann: The Racial State, pp. 23-56, 77-112
The Triumph of the Will (film). Film will be shown on Tuesday, April 20 and Wednesday, April 21, at 7:00 pm in Psych. 105. (The film is approximately 3 hours long).
Susan Sontag: "Fascinating Fascism" (Humanities Pamphlet)
Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, pp. 97-108 (on Reserve only)

Lecture on Nazi Germany: Scott Smith, Mon., April 19
Lecture on the Nazi Aesthetic: William Diebold, Wed., April 21

WEEK 13 (April 26-30): THE HOLOCAUST

Levi: Survival in Auschwitz
Améry: from At the Mind's Limits (Humanities Pamphlet)
Celan: "The Death Fugue" (Humanities Pamphlet)
Shoah Part I (film). The film will be shown Tues., April 27, and Wed., April 28, at 7:00 p.m., in Psych 105. (The film is approximately 4 1/2 hours long).

Lecture on the Holocaust: Katja Garloff, Mon. April 26