Humanities 221/222

Week 1 (January 28)

• Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

• M: A Person of Interest / Jay Dickson

Week 2 (February 4)

• Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle (e-reserves)
• Charles Darwin, Origin of Species (e-reserves)
• Charles 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)

• M: Nature's Empire: Darwin and the Study of Man in Context / Mary Ashburn Miller
• W: Sign City: Baudelaire's Exile on Main Street / Hugh Hochman

Week 3 (February 11)

• T. J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, chapter 2 (e-reserves)
• Image Gallery
• Gay Gullickson, “Synopsis,” The Unruly Women of Paris (e-reserves)
• Edmond de Goncourt, Journals (e-reserves)
• Louise Michel, The Red Virgin (e-reserves)

• M: Manet and Modernism / William Diebold
• W : The Paris Commune: Contested Meanings in a Shared City / Mary Ashburn Miller

Week 4 (February 18)

• Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
• Recommended reading: Chinua Achebe, “Image of Africa.” (e-reserves)
• Paul Gauguin, Noa Noa, pp. 1-22
• Image Gallery
• Recommended reading: Stephen Eisenman, excerpts from Gauguin's Skirt(e-reserves)

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

Week 5 (February 25)

• Freud, Interpretation of Dreams (e-reserves)
• Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (e-reserves)
• Mann, Death in Venice

• M: Beyond the Pleasure Principle / Jan Mieszkowski
• W: The Decline of the West / Jay Dickson

Week 6 (March 4)

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

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

Week 7 (March 11)

• 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)
• John Berger, Selections from Chapter 1, The success and failure of Picasso, pp. 47-83.
• Image Gallery
• Recommended reading: Leo Steinberg, The philosophical brothel , October, pp. 7-74, 1988.

• M: You Say You Want a Revolution / Leah Goldman
• W: Lecture on Cubism /  Joanna Fiduccia

Week 8 (March 18)

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

• M: Clarissa Explains it All / Jay Dickson

SPRING BREAK

Week 9 (April 1)

• Film: Metropolis (Screening: Sunday, March 31, 6 pm: Psych 105)
• Siegfried Kracauer, Selections, From Caligari to Hitler: a psychological history of German film, pp. 149-150, 162-164
• Film (4 excerpts): Triumph of the Will
• Susan Sontag, “Fascinating Fascism” (New York Review of Books)
• Kracauer, “The Mass Ornament” (e-reserves)

• M: Metropolis at the Crossroads of Past, Present, and Future / William Diebold
• W: The Nazi Aesthetic / William Diebold

Week 10 (April 8)

• Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
• Film: Shoah
• Marc Chevrie and Hervé le Roux, “Site and Speech. An Interview with Claude Lanzmann about Shoah,” Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah: Key Essays, ed. S. Liebman. (Oxford, 2007), 37-49. (e-reserves).

• M: Lecture on Levi / Steve Wasserstrom
• W: Panel on Holocaust Memory and Representation / Marat Grinberg, Steve Wasserstrom, William Diebold

Week 11 (April 15)

• Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: editor's introduction; pp. 1-35, 206-298.
• Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
• UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) (e-reserves)
• UN Convention on Genocide (1948) (e-reserves)

• M: Lecture on Arendt / Steve Wasserstrom
• W: A Humanism Made to the Measure of this World / Mary Ashburn Miller

Week 12 (April 22)

• Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, pp. 3-17, 46-75, 266-74, 468-85, 519-23, 638-45, 661-64, and 753-66.
• Beckett, Waiting for Godot

• M: Simone de Beauvoir: Existence and Resistance / Mary Ashburn Miller
• W: Lecture on Beckett / Maureen Harkin

Week 13 (April 29)

• Selvon, Lonely Londoners

• M: “To say these things, to have lived these things”: Colonial Migrants and the Remaking of the Imperial Metropolis / Radhika Natarajan
• W: Reflections on HUM 220