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Advanced Topics: Plotting Terror in European Culture

Subjects: History · Language

Art: Frederik de Wit, 17th century world map - Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, between 1670 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. Charity Scribner
Term: Spring 2004
Level: Undergraduate
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Advanced Topics: Plotting Terror in European Culture

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Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: DeLillo. Mao II.

Lecture 3: Said. “The Essential Terrorist.” Lentricchia, and McAuliffe. “Groundzeroland.” Scanlan. Plotting Terror. Introduction.

Lecture 4: Trotta, Von. Marianne and Juliane. (In-class review)

Lecture 5: Elsaesser. “Antigone Agonistes.” Baumann. “How Everything Started.”

Lecture 6: Kleist. Michael Kohlhaas.

Lecture 7: Wittkowski. “Is Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas a Terrorist?”

Lecture 8: Fleming. “Propaganda by the Deed: Terrorism and Anarchist Theory in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe.” Bakunin. God and the State. Kropotkin. “The Spirit of Revolt.”

Lecture 9: Conrad. The Secret Agent.

Lecture 10: Jordan. The Crying Game. (In-class review)

Lecture 11: Gillon. “The Desperate Shape of Betrayal.”

Lecture 12: Lessing. The Good Terrorist. Scanlan. “Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist. ” Corrado. “The Evolution of the Irish Republican Army.”

Lecture 13: Fo. The Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Wieviorka. “The Italian Phenomenon of Leftist Extremist Terrorism.”

Lecture 14: Rosi. Three Brothers . (In-class review)

Lecture 15: Dürrenmatt. The Assignment . Crockett. Understanding Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The Assignment .

Lecture 16: Böll. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum . Corrado. “The History of the German Student Movement and the Birth of the Baader-Meinhof Group.”

Lecture 17: Richter. 18. Oktober 1977 . (In-class viewing) Grimonprez. Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. (In-class review)