Spring 2008 Syllabus
Texts for this course
Flaubert, Madame Bovary (Penguin)
Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life (Phaidon)
Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil (Oxford UP, Oxford World Classics)
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals (Hackett)
Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground (Vintage)
Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Norton)
Freud, The Freud Reader (Norton)
Kafka, The Complete Stories (Schocken/Random House)
Mann, Death in Venice (Norton)
Ferro, The Great War (Routledge)
Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
Woolf, To the Lighthouse (Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich)
Lenin, The Lenin Anthology (Norton)
Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog (Grove)
Gay, Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (Norton)
Burleigh, The Third Reich: A New History (Hill & Wang)
Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (Simon & Schuster)
Topic and Reading Schedule
Week 1 (January 28-February 1)
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
M: Lecture on Flaubert (Hugh Hochman)
Week 2 (February 4-8)
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.”)
Baudelaire, “The Painter of Modern Life”
Letters of Paul Cézanne (e-reserves)
M: Lecture on Baudelaire and Modern Lyric (Hugh Hochman)
W: Lecture on Impressionism (Rob Slifkin)
Week 3 (February 11-15)
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals
M: Lecture on Nietzsche (Jan Mieszkowski)
Week 4 (February 18-22)
Dostoevsky, Notes From the Underground
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
M: Lecture on Doestoevsky (Lena Lencek)
W: Lecture on Conrad (Roger Porter)
Week 5 (February 25-29)
Freud, The Freud Reader (your conference leader will select the readings)
M: Lecture on Freud (Jan Mieszkowski)
Week 6 (March 3-March 7)
Kafka, The Complete Stories (your conference leader will select the readings)
M: Lecture on Kafka (Roger Porter)
Week 7 (March 10-14)
Mann, Death in Venice
Apollinaire, “The Cubist Painters” (e-reserves)
Kahnweiler, “The Rise of Cubism” (e-reserves)
M: Lecture on Mann (Roger Porter)
W: Lecture on Cubism (Rob Slifkin)
SPRING BREAK
Week 8 (March 24-27)
Ferro, The Great War, chps. 1-6, 9-12, 14-16, 18
Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, pp. 3-51, 75-82, 169-190, 326-335
M: Lecture on World War One (Ed Segel)
Week 9 (March 31-April 4)
Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Woolf, “Professions for Women” (e-reserves)
M: Lecture on Woolf (Jay Dickson)
Week 10 (April 7-11)
Lenin, The Lenin Reader (your conference leader will select the readings)
Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
M: Lecture on the Russian Revolution (Brian Kassof)
W: Lecture on Utopianism and Socialism (Brian Kassof)
Week 11 (April 14-April 18)
Gay, Weimar Culture
Screening of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis in Pysch 105, Monday, April 14 and Tuesday, April 15 at 7:00.
M: Lecture on Weimar (Joel Revill)
Week 12 (April 21-25)
Burleigh, The Third Reich: A New History
M: Lecture on the Third Reich (Christine Mueller)
W: Lecture on the Holocaust (Christine Mueller)
Week 13 (April 28-May 2)
Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
Celan, “Death Fugue” (e-reserves)
M: Lecture on Holocaust Literature (Katja Garloff)