Spring 1995 Syllabus

History 197
Spring 1995
Mr. Sabean

Germany and its others:

The Construction of Self-Understanding in the 19th and 20th Centuries

 
 

Week 1: April 3
Introduction

Week 2: April 10
Theories of the Other

Sander Gilman, "What are Stereotypes and Why Use Texts to Study Them?" in Difference and Pathology (1982) pp.15-35. BF 323 C5 G47d 1985

Ren6 Girard, "Violence and Representation in the Mythical Text," in To Double Business Bound (1978) pp.178-198. (Coll.) PN 47 G442t

Week 3: April 17
Wagner and the Jews (I)

Richard Wagner, "What is German?" "Jews in Music."

"The Mastersingers of NUrnberg.11)

Week 4: April 24
Wagner and the Jews (II)

Richard Wagner, "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.11 (Selections in MU Library) M 1505 W12ml (1942)

Hist 197, Germany and its Others: page 2

Week 5: May I

The Body as Distinction

Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies trans. Stephen Conway et al., (1987-89). (Coll) AC 35 T34413 vol.1; vol.2 in ERR

George L. Mosse, "The Rediscovery of the Human Body,$' in

Nationalism and Sexuality: Middle Class Morality and Sexual Norms in Modern Europe (1985) pp.48-66. (HQ 18 E8M67 1988)

Week 6: May 8

Constructing Gender

Gail Finney, "Women's Place at the Turn of the Century: Emancipation or Hysterization?" in Women in Modern Drama (1989) pp.1-21. PN 56.5 W64F5 1989

Sander Gilman, "Male Stereotypes of Female Sexuality in Finde-Si6cle Vienna," in Difference and Pathology pp.39-58.

Otto Weininger, "Man and Woman'l,"Male and Female Sexuality", Male and Female Consciousness", "Male and Female Psychology", and "Motherhood and Prostitution" in Sex and Character (1906, trans.1975) pp.79-102, 186-235. HQ 21 W43gE 1975

Week 7: May 15
Representing Gender in Culture

Oscar Wilde, "Salome" in The Portable Oscar Wild (1981) pp.392-429. PR 5811 A36 1981

Richard Strauss, "Salome." German opera with English subtitles: 109 min. Instructional Media Library Rec.' Number: 005122IM.

Week 8: May 22
Fashioning Sexuality: Producing Deviance

Karin Jusek, "Sexual Morality and the Meaning of Prostitution in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna," in Jan Bremmer From Sappo to Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality (1989) pp.123-143. HQ 18 E8V36 1989

George L. Mosse, "Manliness and Homosexuality," in Nationalism and Sexuality pp.23-47.

pp.153-180.

"Fascism and Sexuality," in Nationalism and Sexuality

Otto Weininger, "Homosexuality and Pedastry" in Sex and Character pp.45-52.

Sander Gilman, "Black Sexuality and Modern Consciousness," in Difference and Pathology pp.109-127.

Week 9: May 29 (Holiday Readings and Film)

Rechtsradikalismus

Adolf Hitler, "Nation and Race," in Mein Kampf.

Michael Schmidt, The New Reich, trans., Daniel Horch (1993) HN 460 V5S3613 1993

Rainer Werner FaBbinder "Angst essen Seele auf.11 94 min. Instructional Media Library Rec. Number 00015271M.

Week 10: June 5
Ethnicity and the Outsider

GUnther Wallraf f , Lowest of the Low (Ganz Unten) , trans. Martin Chalmers (1988). DD 94 W3413 1985