Schedule

Reason and Passion

Jan 31
Course Introduction

Feb 3
Ihara Saikaku – Life of a Sensuous Woman (Japan, 1686)

Feb 7
“The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas” (Vol D, pp. 91-104)
Samuel Johnson – from A Dictionary of the English Language (England, 1777)
René Descartes – The Discourse on Method (France, 1637)
Diderot & D’Alembert – The Encyclopédie (France, 1751 – 1777)
Immanuel Kant – What is Enlightenment? (Germany, 1784)

Feb 10
Ueda Akinari – “Bewitched” (Japan, 1776)

 

Discourse and Community

Feb 14
“Introduction to the Age of Revolution” (Vol E, pp. 3-17)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (France, 1789)
Olympe de Gouges – The Rights of Woman (France, 1791)
Edmund Burke – from Reflections on the Revolution in France (England, 1790)
Jean-Jacques Dessalines – Liberty or Death: Proclamation to the Inhabitants of Haiti (Haiti, 1804)

Feb 17
“Romantic Poets and Their Successors” (Vol E, pp. 322-325)
Percy Bysshe Shelley – A Defense of Poetry (England, 1821)

Feb 21
Article Close Reading Due Date #1
Romantic Poetry (Continued)
Percy Bysshe Shelley – “Ode to the West Wind”
John Keats – “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – “Kubla Khan”
Anna Bunina – “Conversation Between Me and the Women”

Feb 24
Edgar Allan Poe – The Man of the Crowd (USA, 1845)
Charles Baudelaire – “To a Passerby”, “Crowds

Feb 28
“Orature” (Vol E, pp 915-917)
Orature Presentations (Groups 1-3)

Mar 3
Orature Presentations (Groups 4-6)

Mar 4
Paper 1 Thesis statement due by end of day

Representation and Reality

Mar 7
“Realism Across the World” (Vol E, pp. 625-630)
Leo Tolstoy – The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Russia, 1886)

Mar 10
Leo Tolstoy – The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Russia, 1886)

Monday, Mar 13
PAPER 1 Due via Email by midnight

Mar 14
Article Close Reading Due Date #2
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels – The Communist Manifesto (Germany, 1848)
Leo Tolstoy – The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Russia, 1886)

 

Illuminating Shadows

Mar 17
“Modernity and Modernism, 1900-1945” (Vol F, pp. 3-13)
Tanizaki Jun’Ichirō – The Tattooer (Japan, 1910)
Tanizaki Jun’Ichirō – In Praise of Shadows (Japan, 1933)

Mar 21
Franz Kafka – The Judgment (Czechia, 1912)

Mar 24
The Judgment, continued

Mar 28
Chen Duxiu – “On Literary Revolution” (China, 1917)
Lu Xun – Diary of a Madman (China, 1918)

Mar 31
Tristan Tzara – Dadaist Manifesto (Romania/Switzerland, 1918)

Apr 4
Article Close Reading Due Date #3
André Breton – Surrealist Manifesto (France, 1924)
Salvador Dalí & Louis Buñuel – Un Chien Andalou (France/Spain, 1928)
Fernand Léger – Ballet Mécanique (France, 1924)

Apr 7
Charlie Chaplin – Modern Times (USA, 1936)
Ivan Goll – “The Cinema” (France/Germany, 1924)
Theodor W. Adorno – “Prophesied by Kierkegaard” and “In Malibu” (Germany)
Walter Benjamin – “A Look on Chaplin” (1929)

Apr 11
Spring Break
Marquis de Sade – from Philosophy in the Bedroom (France, 1795)

Apr 14
Spring Break
Friedrich Nietzsche – On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (Germany, 1873)                           

Apr 18
Spring Break
Article Close Reading Due Date #4

Apr 21
Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Visit (Switzerland, 1956)

Apr 25
The Visit
, continued
Final Paper Proposals Due

Apr 28
RadioLab – “In the Dust of this Planet” (USA, 2014)
On The Media – “Staring into the Abyss” (USA, 2014)

May 2
Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis (France/Iran, 2000)

May 5
Persepolis, continued.

May 9
In-Class Writing Workshop
Final Paper Drafts Due In-Class (2 hard copies)

May 12
Ana Lily Amirpour – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (USA/Persian, 2014)

May 16
Last Class Discussion
Final Paper Presentations

May 28
Final Papers Due via Email, no late papers.