1(A) SEMINAR: FIN-DE-SIECLE—FROM ROMANTICISM TO
MODERNISM [ROMANTICISM, ART FOR ART’S SAKE, DECADENCE, SYMBOLISM, ART NOUVEAU
AND MODERNISM]
Term II, Spring 2002
DAY/DATE ASSIGNMENT
WEEK 1: ROMANTICISM
1.1 Tuesday, Feb. 5: Introduction,
Discussion of Projects, Evaluations, Outline of Course
1.2 Friday, Feb. 8: Reading
Assignment: READING NOTES REQUIRED FOR 1.2 OR 2.1
[TEXT] Mario
Praz, The Romantic Agony
Foreword, v-xv; Preface, xv-xxiv;
Second Edition Preface, xxiv; Introduction, 1-22;
Chapter I, “The Beauty of the
Medusa,” 23-52;
Chapter II, “The Metamorphoses of
Satan,” 53-94;
Chapter III, “The Shadow of the
Divine Marquis,” 95-197.
***************************************************************************************************************
WEEK 2: ROMANTICISM CONT.
2.1 Tuesday, Feb. 12
[TEXT] Mario
Praz, The Romantic Agony
Chapter IV, “La Belle Dame Sans
Merci,” 199-300;
Chapter V, “Byzantium,” 303-434;
Appendix, “Swinburne and ‘Le Vice
Anglais,” 437-457.
2.2 Friday, Feb 15 THE
ROMANTIC “HERO”
Additional
Reading Sigmund
Freud, (1922) “On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of
Love,” vol. 11, The Complete Works, 177-190.
[NC
LIBRARY RESERVE: BF 173 F6253 VOL.11]
E.A.Poe,
(1845) “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Suggested
Reading: Georges
Bataille, (1957) Eroticism: Death and Sensuality, San Fransico: City Lights Books, 1957/1986.
Chapter II, “De Sade’s Sovereign
Man,” 164-176;
Chapter III, “De Sade and the Normal
Man,” 177-196.
Susan Sontag, (1963)
“The Pornographic Imagination,” 205-233, A Susan Sontag Reader, New
York: Farrar/Straus/Giroux, 1963/1982
Roland
Barthes, Sade, Fourier, Loyola, (Trans. Richard Miller) New York:
Hill and Wang, 1976.
“Sade I,” 15-37;
“Sade II,” 123-171;
“Lives: Sade,” 173-182.
2.2 Additonal Reading Related to the Fatal Woman:
Elaine Showalter, (1990) Sexual
Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle, New York: Penguin Books,
1990. Particuarly:
1, “Borderlines,” 1-18;
2, “Odd Women,” 18-37;
8, “ Decadence, Homosexuality, and
Feminism,” 169-187 (esp. 169-178).
[NC LIBRARY RESERVE: PR 468 F46
S56 1990]
Suggested
Reading: Angela Carter, The
Sadeian Woman: and the Ideology of Pornography, New York: Pantheon Books,
1978. “ late twentieth century interpretation of some of the problems she
raises about the culturally determined nature of women and of the relations
between men and women that result from it…”
[NC
LIBRARY: PQ 2063. S3 C34]
***************************************************************************************************************
WEEK 3: FATAL WOMEN AND
HOMOSEXUAL MEN
3.1
Tuesday, Feb. 19 Gustave
Flaubert, (1877) “Herodias”
Suggested: Victor Brombert, The
Novels of Flaubert: A Study in Themes and
Chapter 8, “Herodias,” 246-257.
Gilbert and Gubar, No
Man’s Land,
Chapter 1, “Heart of Darkness: The
Agon of the Femme Fatale,” 3-46.
[Lengthy dscussion of Rider
Haggard’s She, the relationship between feminine and the modern etc.]
[NC LIBRARY RESERVE: PR 116. G5
1988]
3.2 Friday, Feb. 22 DECADENCE
Calinesce, Matei, Five
Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde,
Decadence,
Kitsch, Postmodernism, Durham: Duke UP, 1987.
(a)
The Idea of Decadence: Versions of Decadence,
151-157;
(b)
From “Decadence” to “Style of Decadence,” 157-171;
(c)
Nietsche of “Decadence” and “Modernity,” 178-194;
(d)
The Concept of Decadence in Marxist Criticism, 195-211;
(e)
II Decadentisimo, 211-221.
[NC LIBRARY RESERVE: EH 301. M54
C34 1987]
***************************************************************************************************************
4.1 Tuesday, Feb. 24 ONE
READING OUTLINE ON DIJKSTRA—EITHER 4.1 OR 4.2
[TEXT] Bram
Dijkstra, Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de
Siecle
Culture, New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1986.
Chapter
I, Raptures of Submission: The Shopkeeper’s Soul Keeper and
the Cult
of the Household Nun, 3-24.
Chapter
II, The Cult of Invalidism: Ophelia and Folly; Dead Ladies and
the Fetish
of Sleep, 25-63.
Chapter
III, The Collapsing Woman: Solitary Vice and Restful
Detumesence,
64-82.
Chapter IV, The Weightless Woman; The Nymph
with the Broken Back;
and the
Mythology of Therapeutic Rape, 83-118.
Chapter
V, Women of Moonlight and Wax: The Mirror of Venus and the
Lesbian
Glass, 119-159.
Chapter
VI, Evolution of the Brain: Extinguished Eyes and the Call of the
Child,
Homosexuality and the Dream of Male Transcendence,
160-209.
[NC LIBRARY: NX 652 W6 D55 1986]
4.2 Friday, Mar. 1
[TEXT] Bram
Dijkstra, Idols of Perversity.
Chapter VII, Clinging Vines
and the Dangers of Degeneration, 210-234.
Chapter VIII, Poison
Flowers: Maenads of the Decadence and the Torrid
Wail of
Sirens, 235-271.
Chapter
IX, Gyanders and Genetics: Connoissuers of Beastiality and
Serpentine
Delights; Leda, Circe, and the Cold Caresses of the
Sphinx,
272-332.
Chapter
X, Metamorphoses of the Vampire: Dracula and His Daughters,
333-351.
Chapter
XI, Gold and the Virgin Whores of Babylon: Judith and Salome:
The Priestesses of Man’s Severed Head, 352-402.
***************************************************************************************************************
5.1 Tuesday Mar. 5 NO
READING RESPONSES FOR HUYSMANS—CLASS
DISCUSSION
ONLY
[TEXT] Joris
K. Huysmans, (1884) Against Nature
Introduction, 5-14; Prologue, 17-24;
Chapters 1-7, 25-95
Chapters 8-16, 96-220.
[READ ENTIRE BOOK]
5.2 Friday, Mar. 8 Additional
Readings:
Joseph Halpern, “Decadent
Narrative: A Rebours,” 91-102, Stanford
French
Review 11.1 (Spring 1978) [11 pages]
[NC
LIBRARY PERIODICAL: PQ 1 S7 (1978)]
Charles Bernheimer,
“Huysmans: Writing Against (Female) Nature,” 374-386 in The Female Body in
Western Culture: Contemporary
Perspectives, Ed.
Susan Rubin Sulieman, Harvard UP, Cambridge,
1986. [12
pages]
[NC
LIBRARY RESERVE: USF LIBRARY: NX 652 W6 F46 1986]
James
Laver, The First Decadent: Being the Strange Life of J.K.
Huysman, New York:
Citadel Press, 1955.
Chapter 5, “A
Rebours,” 74-91 [17
pages]
[NC LIBRARY: PQ 2309 H4 Z637 1955]
John R.
Reed, Decadent Style
Chapter 2, “Decadent Fiction” 19-71
[NC LIBRARY: NX 454 R44 1985]
***************************************************************************************************************
WEEK 6
6.1 Tuesday, Mar. 12 NO
READING RESPONSES FOR WILDE
[TEXT] Oscar
Wilde, (1891) The Picture of Dorian Grey,
Introduction, 7-15;
Preface, 1-11; Chapters 1-10, 23-157
Chapters 11-20, 158-264.
[READ ENTIRE BOOK]
6.2 Friday, Mar. 15 SYMBOLISM
[TEXT] Lucie-Smith,
Edward, Symbolist Art, London: Thames and Hudson,
1972.
Chapters 1-7
1.
Symbolic Art
2.
Romanticism and Symbolism
3.
Symbolist Currents in England
4.
Symbolist Currents in France
5.
Gustave Moreau
6.
Redon and Bresdin
7.
Puvis de Chavannes and Carriere
[NC LIBRARY: N6465 S9 L8 1972B]
***************************************************************************************************************
WEEK 7 SYMBOLISM CONT.
7.1 Tuesday, Mar. 26
[TEXT] Lucie-Smith,
Edward, Symbolist Art.
Chapters 8-15
8.
Gaugin, Pont-Aven and the Nabis, 108-
9.
The Rose + Croix
10.
The English 1980s
11.
The Symbolist International
12.
Rops and Ensor
13.
Edvard Munch, 183-193
14.
Klimt and the Vienna Sucession, 193-
15.
The Young Picasso, 201-208
7.2 Friday, Mar. 22 NO
CLASS: CRIS AT CONFERENCE ON THE FANTASTIC IN THE
***************************************************************************************************************
***************************************************************************************************************
WEEK 1: MODULE 2 ART
NOUVEAU AND ‘PSYCHOLOGIE NOUVELLE’
1.1 Tuesday, Apr. 2 READING
RESPONSES REQUIRED FOR SILVERMAN
[TEXT] Deborah
L. Silverman, Art-Nouveau in Fin-de Siecle France: Politics,
Psychology
and Style, Berkley: University of California Press,
1989/1992.
Introduction: The Transformation of
Art Nouveau, 1889-1900, 1-16;
Chapter I: The Brothers de Goncourt
between History and the Psyche,
17-42;
Chapter II: Aristocratic Ralliement
and Social Solidarite, 42-51;
Chapter III: The Abdication of
Technology and the Elevation of the
Crafts,
52-61;
Chapter IV: Amazone, Femme
Nouvelle, and the Threat to the Bourgeois
Family,
63-74;
Chapter V: Psychologie Nouvelle,
75-108
[NC LIBRARY: N6847.5 A78 S55
1989]
1.2 Friday, Apr. 5 Deborah
L. Silverman, Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France: Politics,
Psychology
and Style.
Chapters 10-15, 172-314.
***************************************************************************************************************
WEEK 2 TEXTS OF SYMBOLISM AND
DECADENCE
2.1 Tuesday, Apr. 9
2.2 Friday, Apr. 12: Oscar Wilde, (1893) Salome
**************************************************************************************************************
3.1 Tuesday, April 16: FETISHISM
Bernheimer,
Charles, “Fetishism and Decadence: Salome’s Severed
Heads,”
62-83 in Emily Apter and William Pietz (eds). Fetishism
as
Cultural Discourse Ithaca and New York: Cornell UP, 1993.
Freud, Sigmund, “Fetishism,”
The Complete Works, v. 21, 152-157.
Apter, Emily. Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and
Narrative
Obsession
in Turn-of-the Century France. Ithaca and London:
Cornell
UP, 1991.
Chapter 1. “Fetishism in
Theory:
Marx, Freud and Baudrillard,” 1-14.
Chapter 4, “Unmasking the
Masquerade: Fetishism and Femininity form
the
Goncourt Brothers to Joan Riviere,” 65-98.
***************************************************************************************************************
***************************************************************************************************************
3.2
FRI, APR. 19: LECTURE
1:
Katie Solli on NOVALIS
WEEK 4, MOD 2: TUES, APR 23: LECTURE 2: Katherine Borse
on MALLARME
FRI, APR. 26:
CLASS
DISCUSSION: THE BODY, THE GAZE
WEEK 5, MOD 2: TUES, APR. 30: LECTURE 3: Megan Mook on
NIETZSCHE
FRI, MAY 3: LECTURE 4:
Amy Simmons on SCHIELE
WEEK 6, MOD 2: TUES, MAY 7: LECTURE 5: Mary
Brink on MUCHA'S POSTERS
FRI, MAY 10: LECTURE
6: Liz Renes on KLIMT
WEEK 7, MOD 2: TUES, MAY 14: LECTURE 7:
Kathryn Sibiski on BEARDSLEY