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21G.061

Literature and Existentialism

3-0-9 units. HASS-H; CI-H · Undergraduate

See description under subject 21L.024[J] . Enrollment limited.

Spring 2004 · Advanced Topics: Plotting Terror in European Culture

Topics

  • Introduction
  • DeLillo. Mao II.
  • Trotta, Von. Marianne and Juliane. (In-class review)
  • Kleist. Michael Kohlhaas.
  • Wittkowski. “Is Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas a Terrorist?”
  • Conrad. The Secret Agent.
  • Jordan. The Crying Game. (In-class review)
  • Gillon. “The Desperate Shape of Betrayal.”
  • Rosi. Three Brothers . (In-class review)

Readings

  • Bakunin, Mikhail. God and the State . Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971. ISBN: 0836956435. (originally published in 1883)
    Required
  • Baumann, Michael “Bommi.” “How Everything Started.” In Terror or Love: How It All Began . New York: Grove, 1979. ISBN 0394507185.
    Required
  • Böll, Heinrich. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum . Translated by Leila Vennewitz. Reprint ed. Penguin Books, 1994. ISBN: 0140187286.
    Required
  • Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent . Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0192801694.
    Required
  • Crockett, Roger A. Understanding Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. ISBN: 1570032130.
    Required
  • Corrado, Raymond. “The Evolution of the Irish Republican Army.” in The Politics of Terrorism, ed. Michael Stohl. New York: M. Dekker, 1988. ISBN: 0824778146
    Required
  • Corrado, Raymond. “The History of the German Student Movement and the Birth of the Baader-Meinhof Group.” in The Politics of Terrorism, ed. Michael Stohl. New York: M. Dekker, 1988. ISBN: 0824778146.
    Required
  • DeLillo, Don. Mao II . Penguin Books, 1992. ISBN: 0140152741.
    Required
  • Dürrenmatt, F. The Assignment . New York: Random House, 1988. ASIN: 0394560108.
    Required
  • Elaesser, Thomas. “Antigone Agonistes.” in Giving Ground: The Politics of Propinquity, ed. Joan Copjec and Michael Sorkin. New York: Verso, 1999. ISBN: 1859848923.
    Required
  • Fleming, Marie. “Propaganda by the Deed: Terrorism and Anarchist Theory in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe,” Terrorism: An International Journal 4:1-4 (1980): 1-23.
    Required
  • Fo, Dario, and Peter Kennard. The Accidental Death of an Anarchist . Reprint ed. Methuen, 2002. ISBN: 0413156109.
    Required
  • Gillon, Adam. “The Desperate Shape of Betrayal.” In Joseph Conrad . Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982. ISBN 0805768203.
    Required
  • Grimonperz, Johan. dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y . 1977. ↗
    Required
  • Jordan, Neil. The Crying Game. Artisan Entertainment, 1998. ASIN: 0784011184.
    Required
  • Kleist, Heinrich von. “Michael Kohlhaas.” In German Romantic Novellas . New York: Continuum, 1985. ISBN 082640291.
    Required
  • Kropotkin, Peter. “ The Spirit of Revolt .” (This article first appeared in Le Révolté in 1880. English translations appeared in Commonweal , 1892 and Kropotkin’s Revolutionary Pamphlets , 1927.) ↗
    Required
  • Lentricchia, Frank and Jody McAuliffe. “Groundzeroland.” in Crimes of Art and Terror. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ISBN: 022647205.
    Required
  • Lessing, Doris May. The Good Terrorist . Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1985. ISBN: 0224023233.
    Required
  • Richter, Gerhard. 18. Oktober 1977. Museum of Modern Art, 2000. ISBN: 080700235.
    Required
  • Rosi, Francesco. Three Brothers. Facets Video, 2002. ASIN: B000067IXK.
    Required
  • Said, Edward. “The Essential Terrorist.” in Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question. London: Verso, 1988.
    Required
  • Scanlan, Margaret. “Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist.” in Plotting Terror: Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2001. ISBN: 0813920310.
    Required
  • Trotta, Von. Marianne and Juliane. New York: New Yorker Video, 1994.
    Required
  • Wieviorka, Michael. “Social Movements and Marxism-Leninism: The Italian Phenomenon of Leftist Extremist Terrorism.” In The Making of Terrorism . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN 0226896528.
    Required
  • Wittkowski, Wolfgang. “Is Kleists Michael Kohlhaas a Terrorist? Luther, Prussian Law Reforms and the Accountability of Government.” Historical Reflections 26, no. 3 (2000): 471-86.
    Required
  • Barnet, Sylvan and William E. Cain. A Short Guide to Writing about Literature. Boston: Longman Publishing Group, 2002. ISBN: 0321104765.
    Recommended
  • Monaco, James. How to Read a Film . New York: Harbor Electronic Publishing, 2000. ISBN: 0966974433.
    Recommended

Prerequisites & course information

Same subject as 21L.024[J] Prereq: None U (Fall, Spring) 3-0-9 units. HASS-H; CI-H

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