Humanities 221/222

Schedule

Week 1 (January 23)

• Flaubert, Madame Bovary

• M: Death by Irony / Hugh Hochman

Week 2 (January 30)

• Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil ("To the Reader," "The Albatross," "Correspondences," "A Hymn to Beauty," "A Carcass," "Invitation to the Voyage," "Spleen (IV)," "The Sun," "To a Woman Passing By," "The Swan")
• Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life," chapters 1-4 and 9-12 (e-reserves)
• T. J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, chapter 2 (e-reserves)
• Image Gallery

• M: Sign City: Baudelaire's Exile on Main Street / Hugh Hochman
• W: Manet and Modernism / William Diebold

Week 3 (February 6)

• Darwin, Origin of Species, selections (Darwin Reader pp. 95-120, 133-35, and 169-74)
• Darwin, Descent of Man, selections (Darwin Reader pp. 175-77, 209-22, and 232-254)

• M: On the Origins and Ends of Species / Benjamin Lazier

Week 4 (February 13)

• Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals

• M: Lessons in Alien Horticulture / Benjamin Lazier

Week 5 (February 20)

• Conrad, Heart of Darkness
• Chinua Achebe, "Image of Africa" (available in Norton edition of Heart of Darkness)
• Gauguin, Noa Noa, pp. 5-52
• Stephen Eisenman, excerpts from Gauguin's Skirt (e-reserves)
• Image Gallery

• M: Horror Story / Jay Dickson
• W: Gauguin, Conrad, and Colonialism / William Diebold

Week 6 (February 27)

• Freud, The Freud Reader (selections determined by individual instructors; recommended texts include: "An Autobiographical Study;" "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality;" "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Dora);" "Civilization and its Discontents;" and "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis [Wolf Man]")

• M: Reading the Unconscious / Katja Garloff

Week 7 (March 6)

• Kafka, The Complete Stories (selections determined by individual instructors; recommended stories include: "Before the Law"; "The Judgment"; "The Metamorphosis"; "In the Penal Colony"; "A Report to an Academy")

• M: Franz Kafka: Modernism and Displacement / Katja Garloff

SPRING BREAK

Week 8 (March 20)

• Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory, pp. 3-51, 75-82, 169-190, and 326-335
• Poems of WWI (e-reserves)
• Jünger, Storm of Steel, pp. 5-33, 91-110, 224-56, and 274-89
• Ernst Jünger, from "War as Inner Experience" (e-reserves)

• M: An Event Without an Idea: The "Irony" of World War One / Mary Ashburn Miller
• W: The Total War Experience / Jan Mieszkowski

Week 9 (March 27)

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

• M: Clarissa Explains it All / Jay Dickson

Week 10 (April 3)

• Vladimir Lenin, What Is To Be Done? excerpts (e-reserves)
• Alexandra Kollontai, "Love and the New Morality" (e-reserves)
• Alexandra Kollontai, "Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle" (e-reserves)
• P.I. Lebedev-Polianskii, "Revolution and the Cultural Tasks of the Proletariat" (http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1917-2/culture-and-revolution/culture-and-revolution-texts/revolution-and-the-cultural-tasks-of-the-proletariat/)
• Boris Arvatov, "The Proletariat and Leftist Art" (e-reserves)
• Andrei Zhdanov, "Soviet Literature—The Richest in Ideas" (e-reserves)
• Anonymous Pravda Editorial, "Muddle Instead of Music" (e-reserves)
• Alexander Mosolov, Iron Foundry, op.19
• A.V. Alexandrov and V. Lebedev-Kumach, "Life Has Become Better!" (lyrics available at: http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/sg-zhit%27.html)
• Dmitrii Shostakovich, Symphony no.5 (Fourth Movement)

• M: You Say You Want a Revolution/Leah Goldman
• W: Getting Real with Socialist Realism/Leah Goldman

Week 11 (April 10)

• Siegfried Kracauer, The Salaried Masses, pp. 25-59 and 68-106
• Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism, pp. 305-18, 323-33, 337-39, 351-54, 361-64, and 437-79
• Triumph of the Will, dir. L. Riefenstahl (watch at least the following clips from the complete version of the film on YouTube linked here: 0-9:00; 12:00- 18:00; 31:23- 38:134; and 1:01:00-1:06:50)

• 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 17)

• Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
• Paul Celan, "Death Fugue" (e-reserves)
• Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men, pp. xv-xxii, 1-8, 39-77, 121-142, and 159-189
• UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) (e-reserves)
• UN Convention on Genocide (1948) (e-reserves)

• M: The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation / Katja Garloff
• W: How to Hate Nazis: Four Suggestions / Benjamin Lazier

Week 13 (April 24)

• Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
• Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, pp. 3-17, 46-75, 266-74, 468-85, 519-23, 638-45, 661-64, and 753-66

• M: Lecture on Césaire/ Katja Garloff and Hugh Hochman
• W: It's a Man's Man's Man's World. Hunh?/ Benjamin Lazier