Picart, “Nietzsche as Masked Romantic,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 55 (1997): 273-292 (on Reserve & E-reserve, and available for early pick-up at the English Department, 216 William Johnston Building)

Please hand in your personal information cards during class on January 12th

Blackboard threaded conversations begin; sign-up for student reports due

Partial viewing of Visconti's Death in Venace in class

Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Picart, Resentment and “the Feminine” in Nietzsche's Politico-Aesthetics, Chapter II

Completion of Visconti's Death in Venice in class; a one page summary of the relation to the readings is required via Blackboard afterwards

January 19th - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - No classes

Thomas Mann, Death in Venace

Picart, Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche: Eroticism, Death, Music and Laughter, Chapter II

No Blackboard posts due this weekend, to allow you to focus on the final paper proposal

Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Picart, Resentment and “the Feminine” in Nietzsche's Politico-Aesthetics, Chapter III

Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will

Student reports (in pairs) begin

Bedazzled (1967 or 1999 versions) required for pre-viewing; one page summary of possible connections to the readings will be done through Blackboard

Final paper proposal is due (Inclusive of Literature Review and Methodology Description)

Thomas Mann, Dr. Faustus

Picart, Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche: Eroticism, Death, Music and Laughter, Chapter III

Bacon, The New Organon (excerpted - on Reserve and E-Reserve)

Descartes, The Meditations

Rosen, The Ancients and the Moderns , Essay on Descartes: Chapter Two (on Reserve and E-Reserve)

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason; Critique of Practical Reason (excerpted from Albert Hakim, Historical Introduction to Philosophy, pp. 523-548 - on Reserve and E-Reserve)

Rosen, The Ancients and the Moderns, Essays on Kant: Chapter Three (on Reserve and E-Reserve)

Either James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein or Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein are required for pre-viewing. A one page summary of the relevance of these films to the readings is due, counting as a Blackboard post.

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Picart, “Visualizing the Monstrous in Frankenstein Films,” Pacific Coast Philology 35 (September 2000): 17-34 (on Reserve and E-Reserve)

Final paper drafts are due - come in with two copies

No Blackboard posts are due this weekend

Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Spring Break - No classes this week

Peer commentaries are due - come in with the original and a clear photocopy

No Blackboard posts are due this weekend

Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (on Reserve and E-Reserve)

Soderberg, Kafka

In Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory (on Reserve and E-Reserve)

Structuralism: De Saussure, “Nature of the Linguistic Sign,” pp. 3-16

Deconstruction: Derrida, “The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing,” pp. 165-183

Marxism: Bakhtin, “Laughter and Freedom,” pp. 300-307

In Latimer, Contemporary Critical Theory (on Reserve and E-Reserve)

Hermeneutics: Gadamer, “Schleiermacher, Hegel and the Hermeneutical Task,” pp. 386-392

Psychoanalysis and Myth Criticism: Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience,” pp. 500-509

Feminism: Kristeva, “Stabat Mater,” pp. 579-603

Final presentations and papers due

Attendance during these final presentation days is a prerequisite to passing, as is the submission of papers on time

Final presentations and papers due

Attendance during these final presentation days is a prerequisite to passing, as is the submission of papers on time

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