One model of the interrelations between history and literature runs like this: The traumatic experiences of the French Revolution created the modern European sense of history, which had among its earliest manifestations Sir Walter Scott's invention of the historical novel. Scott's example was subsequently decisive in the creation of realist fiction by Balzac and Stendhal, who adapted Scott's method for representing the past to their own project of describing the present. In turn, the realist vision of the world deeply influenced Marxism (in Engel's words, he and Marx learned more from Balzac than from all the economists and historians who had ever lived), and Marxism then became a dominant model for socially conscious fiction to accept or challenge.

This course will seek to evaluate that model through classic works of nineteenth-century fiction (Scott's The Heart of Midlothian, Stendhal's The Red and the Black, some of Balzac's shorter works, Zola's Germinal) and through one of Marx's most effective adaptations of literary techniques, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Discussion of those works will incorporate classic views of history and literature formulated by Allesandro Manzoni, Eric Auerbach, and Georg Lukács among others. We will then move to different forms of historical fiction developed in our own day and read works like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Kazuo Ishiguro's Artist of the Floating World, and Art Spiegelman's Maus. These works will be approached in

conjunction with recent critical discussions of history and literature, such as those confronting Fredric Jameson and Linda Hutcheon. Throughout the course, contemporary debates on performative identity will influence our approach to fictional representation of historical identity.

Wednesday3:30 - 6:30 p.m. Library E 4305

From its origins in the 19th century, Euro-American Modernism in literature (and even more obviously in architecture and painting) has been intimately connected with the massive growth of principal metropolitan areas. Paris, London, New York, Berlin, Leningrad, and Moscow--these were the major spawning grounds for much of modernist writing.

We shall examine a series of literary and theoretical texts by significant modernist writers and look at the ways in which the new urban environment inflected this writing. Figures to be considered will include: Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Proust, Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Brecht, Joyce. In addition, we'll look at some of the major scholarly and critical works on modernism by Marshall Berman, John Willett, John Berger, Perry Anderson, T. J. Clark, and Raymond Williams.

All texts will be made available in English, though students with the relevant language competences are encouraged to read the French and German writers in the original.

Tuesday 7:00-10:00 p.m. Library E 4305

The characters of Oedipus, Orestes, and Hamlet have provided our civilization with a sort of paradigm for rethinking relationships inside the family. This course on "the tragic family" proposes to examine the process of filiation, its impossibilities and its derivations, in the following dramas: Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hofmannsthal's Electra, Ibsen's Ghosts, and Sartre's The Condemned of Altona. We will consider the extent to which theatrical figuration and stylization show the implications of filiation for consciousness of the self, patrimony, similitude, and alterity.

Repetition, rebellion, and doubt define different ways for sons or daughters to acquire their identity. The theatrical topic will also open onto the political in order to think fraternity as a link between citizens or as a community of blood.

In addition to these plays, readings will include: Vernant and Vidal-Naquet's, Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece, Claude Lévi-Strauss's,

The Elementary Structures of Kinship, Ernest Jones's Essays in Applied Psychoanalysis, and Jacques Derrida's Politics of Friendship.

Monday 7:00-10:00 p.m. Library E 4305

This course will focus on the generation of European (more specifically, German Jewish) thinkers whose writings anticipate contemporary cultural studies. We will read texts by Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Siegfried Kracauer, and Herbert Marcuse, considering not only the ways in which they lay the groundwork for more recent cultural analysis, but also the ways in which they might trouble it. Issues to be discussed include: cultural critique and cultural displacement; elitism versus populism; fascism versus liberalism; modernism and postmodernism; Jewishness, anti-Semitism, and the politics of theory; and the relations between theory and novelistic-autobiographical discourse. We will also take up pertinent examples of cultural and mass-cultural production, such as newspaper articles, Hollywood films, advertisements, popular music, and television shows.

Texts may include: Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Jew as Pariah; Adorno, Minima Moralia and The Stars Down to Earth; Benjamin, Illuminations and Reflections; Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment; Kracauer, The Mass Ornament and Theory of Film; Marcuse, Eros and Civilization.

Thursday 3:45-6:45 p.m. Library E 4305

CLT 520 Problems in Translation

CLT 597 Directed Readings, M.A.

CLT 599 Independent Study

CLT 690 Thesis Research

CLT 698 Practicum in Teaching

CLT 699 Directed Readings: Ph.D. Candidacy

DLL 570 Introduction of Media for Language Learning and Teaching

Mike Ledgerwood Tues. & Thurs. 3:50-5:10pm

EGL 606.03 Victorian: The Victorian Scramble for England (1830-1860)

Helen Cooper Monday 1:00-4:00pm

EGL 608 Problems in the Relationship of Literature to other Disciplines: Literature & Science

Ira Livingston Thursday 7:00-10:00pm

THR 625 Theory and Criticism: Theories of the Theatre

John Lutterbie Wednesday 9:25-12:30pm