Humanities 220

Week 1 (January 28)

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

M: "Death by Irony in Madame Bovary" / Hugh Hochman

Week 2 (February 4)

Jeffrey A. Auerbach,  The Great Exhibiton of 1851: A Nation on Display, "Commerce and Culture" and "Integration and Segregation" (e-reserves);
William Whewell, "The General Bearing of the Great Exhibition on the Progress of Art and Science" (e-reserves);
Charles Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil (selections by instructor)
Optional: Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life" (e-reserves)

M: "The Queen and the Prince Consort Went to the Great Exhibition of 1851, and All I Got Was This Lousy Modernity" / Jay Dickson
W: "Sign City: Baudelaire’s Exile on Main Street" / Hugh Hochman

Week 3 (February 11)

T. J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, chapters 1 and 2; and study this image gallery;
Charles Darwin, selections (e-reserves)

M: "Manet and Modernity" / William Diebold
W: "On the Origins and Ends of Species" / Benjamin Lazier

Week 4 (February 18)

Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals (selections by instructor)

M: "Lessons in Alien Horticulture" / Benjamin Lazier

Week 5 (February 25)

Sigmund Freud, The Freud Reader (selections by instructor)

M: "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" / Jan Mieszkowski

Week 6 (March 4)

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness;
Gill Perry, "Primitivism and the ‘Modern’" (e-reserves);
Paul Gauguin, Noa Noa, selections (e-reserves) and study this image gallery

M: "Conrad, Colonialism, and the Novel" / Maureen Harkin
W: "Gauguin, Conrad, and Colonialism" / William Diebold

Week 7 (March 11)

Franz Kafka, Complete Stories (selections by instructor)

M: "What Does Kafka Mean?" / Roger Porter

SPRING BREAK

Week 8 (March 25)

Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, pp. 3-51, 75-82, 169-190, 326-335;
Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel, pp. 5-33, 91-110, 180-91, 224-56, 274-89

M: "The Great War: The Price of Progress" / Ed Segel
W: "Heroic Realism: Ernst Jünger and the Great War" / Max Whyte
F:   "Lenin and the Russian Revolution" / Scott Smith

Week 9 (April 1)

V. I. Lenin, selections (e-reserves);
Leon Trotsky,  "Revolutionary and Socialist Art"  (online);
Film: Battleship Potemkin, dir. Sergei Eisenstein (screenings Sunday 3/31 at 6:00 PM in Psy 105; Tuesday 4/2 at 6:00 PM in Psych 105)

W: "Eisenstein’s Potemkin and the Politics of Avant-Garde Film" / Katja Garloff

Week 10 (April 8)

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway;
Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Modern Life" (e-reserves)

M: "Clarissa Explains It All" / Jay Dickson

Week 11 (April 15)

Siegfried Kracauer, The Salaried Masses;
Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism (selections by instructor)

M: "The Weimar Republic: Political Culture and Cultural Politics" / Benjamin Lazier
W: "Totalitarianism, or the Night of the Living Dead" / Benjamin Lazier

Week 12 (April 22)

Film: Triumph of the Will, dir. Leni Riefenstahl (screenings Friday, 4/19 at 6:00 PM in Psych 105; Sunday, 4/21 at 6:00 PM in Psych 105);
Susan Sontag, "Fascinating Fascism" (e-reserves);
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, pp. 9-115;
Paul Celan, "Death Fugue" (e-reserves)

M: "The Nazi Aesthetic" / William Diebold
W: "The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation" / Katja Garloff

Week 13 (April 29)

Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men, pp. xv-xxii, 1-8, 39-77, 121-142, 159-189;
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) (e-reserves);
UN Convention on Genocide (1948) (e-reserves);
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

M: "How to Hate Nazis: Some Suggestions" / Benjamin Lazier
W: "In Search of a Humanism Made to the Measure of the World: Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism" / Mary Ashburn Miller