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Studies in Literary History: Modernism: From Nietzsche to Fellini

Subject: History

Art: Gustave Doré, Gustave Doré, Illustration for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost“, 1866.…, 1866 · Public domain

Instructor: Dr. Howard Eiland
Term: Fall 2010
Level: Undergraduate
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Lecture 1: Introductory: What does “modern” mean?

Lecture 2: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

Lecture 3: Nietzsche, The Will to Power (cont.)

Lecture 4: Kate Chopin, The Awakening

Lecture 5: Lawrence, D. H. “ Odour of Chrysanthemums ”

Lecture 6: Franz Kafka, The Trial

Lecture 7: Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Lecture 8: Cézanne, Nijinsky, Schoenberg, Monk

Lecture 9: James Joyce, Ulysses Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction” in The Common Reader

Lecture 10: Joyce, Ulysses (cont.) Woolf, “Modern Fiction” in The Common Reader (cont.)

Lecture 11: Joyce, Ulysses (cont.) Woolf, “Modern Fiction” in The Common Reader (cont.)

Lecture 12: Joyce, Ulysses (cont.) Woolf, “Modern Fiction” in The Common Reader (cont.)

Lecture 13: Joyce, Ulysses (cont.) Woolf, “Modern Fiction” in The Common Reader (cont.)

Lecture 14: Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

Lecture 15: Proust, Swann’s Way (cont.)

Lecture 16: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Lecture 17: Woolf, To the Lighthouse (cont.)

Lecture 18: Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900

Lecture 19: Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900 (cont.)

Lecture 20: Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, and Thought (“Building Dwelling Thinking”)

Lecture 21: Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, and Thought (“The Thing”)

Lecture 22: Film Theory

Lecture 23: Lang, Fritz. M. (1931)

Lecture 24: Cocteau, Jean. Beauty and the Beast (1946)

Lecture 25: Fellini, Federico. 8½. (1963)