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Week 1 (January 23)

Flaubert, Madame Bovary

M: Lecture on Madame Bovary (Hugh Hochman)

Week 2 (January 30)

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”);
Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, chapters 1 and 2; and study this image gallery

M: Lecture on Baudelaire and modern lyric (Hugh Hochman)
W: Lecture on Manet (William Diebold)

Week 3 (February 6)

Darwin, The Origin of Species, selections (moodle);
Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle, selections (moodle);
Readings on the Great Exhibition of 1851: The Palace of Glass chapters 1 and 3; Speech from HRH Albert, the Prince Consort about the Great Exhibition pp. 109-114; Crystal Palace floor plan image #7; Crystal Palace floor plan image #8; Classification of Subjects (browse this section); Catalogue of the Unclassifiable Objects (browse this section)

M: Lecture on Darwin (Mary Ashburn Miller)
W: Lecture on the Great Exhibition of 1851 (Jay Dickson)

Week 4 (February 13)

Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

M: Lecture on Nietzsche (Jan Mieszkowksi)

Week 5 (February 20)

Freud, The Freud Reader (selections by instructor)

M: Lecture on Freud (Katja Garloff)

Week 6 (February 27)

Conrad, Heart of Darkness;
Harrison et al., Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction, chapter 1

M: Lecture on Conrad (Maureen Harkin)

Week 7 (March 5)

Harrison et al., Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction, chapter 2;
Kafka, The Complete Stories (selections by instructor)

M: Lecture on Cubism (William Diebold)
W: Lecture on Kafka (Katja Garloff)

SPRING BREAK

Week 8 (March 19)

Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, pp. 3-51, 75-82, 169-190, 326-335;
Jünger, Storm of Steel

M: Lecture on World War One (Ed Segel)

Week 9 (March 26)

Woolf, To the Lighthouse;
Woolf, "Professions for Women” (moodle)

M: Lecture on Woolf (Jay Dickson)

Week 10 (April 2)

Lenin (moodle);
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (moodle);
Film: "Battleship Potemkin" (screenings Sunday 4/1 at 6:00 PM in Bio 19, Tuesday 4/3 at 6:00 PM in Psych 105)

M: Lecture on the Russian Revolution (Scott Smith)
W: Lecture on "Potemkin” and avant-garde film (Katja Garloff)

Week 11 (April 9)

Kracauer, The Salaried Masses;
Sontag, "Fascinating Fascism” (online)
Film: "Triumph of the Will" (screenings Sunday 4/8 at 6:00 PM in Bio 19, Tuesday 4/10 at 6:00 PM in Psych 105)

M: Lecture on the Weimar Republic (Daniela Blei)
W: Lecture of Nazi aesthetics (William Diebold)

Week 12 (April 16)

Browning, Ordinary Men, pp. xv-xxii, 1-8, 39-77, 121-142, 159-189;
Levi, Survival in Auschwitz;
Paul Celan, "Death Fugue” (moodle)

M: Lecture on the Third Reich (Daniela Blei)
W: Lecture on Holocaust literature (Katja Garloff )

Week 13 (April 23)

Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

M: Lecture on Césaire (Mary Ashburn Miller)