Prof. Thomas Kovach

January 11, 1994

Regular class attendance and participation.

Completion of all assigned readings.

One oral report on a subject of special interest.

One paper of about 10 typewritten pages.

For English 500 & World Literature 521:

Barbara Jelavich, Modern Austria: Empire and Republic, 1815-1986.

Carl S. Schorske, Fin-de-si�cle Vienna: Politics and Culture

Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Three Plays (trans. Schwarz)

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents

Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

Xeroxes as assigned.

All other required texts available from reserve desk in Gorgas Library

Barbara Jelavich, Modern Austria: Empire and Republic, 1815-1986.

Carl S. Schorske, Fin-de-si�cle Vienna: Politics and Culture

Arthur Schnitzler, Anatol, Anatols Grš§enwahn, Der grŸne Kakadu Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gedichte und kleine Dramen

Sigmund Freud, Die Traumdeutung

Robert Musil, Gesammelte Werke Bd. I. Includes first half of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften.

Xeroxes as assigned.

All other required texts available from reserve desk in Gorgas Library

I. Socio-political background: The Rise and Fall of Austrian Liberalism.

Readings in history texts.

Schorske: The Transformation of the Garden.

II. The Culture of the Socially Functionless: Playboys and Aesthetes.

Schnitzler: Anatol, Reigen (La Ronde)

Hofmannsthal: Poems, Der Tod des Tizian (The Death of Titian), Der Tor und der Tod (Death and the Fool), Poesie und Leben (Poetry and Life), Das MŠrchen der 672. Nacht (The Tale of the 672nd Night).

Schorske: Politics and the Psyche

III. Dissolution of the ego, dissociation of ego and world

Mach: Zur Analyse der Empfindungen (The Analysis of Sensations) Hofmannsthal: Ein Brief (A Letter), Das kleine Welttheater (The Little Theater of the World), Elektra, Reitergeschichte (Tale of the Cavalry) Schnitzler: Der grune Kakadu (The Green Cockatoo), Leutnant Gustl (Lieutenant Gustl, also known as None But the Brave)

IV. Renewal of the Baroque legacy: Regeneration through Art

Hofmannsthal: Gesprach uber Gedichte (Dialogue about Poems), Der Rosenkavalier (The Cavalier of the Rose), Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow)

Mahler: Third Symphony

Gustav Klimt and the Sezession

Readings in Schorske (The Ringstrae and the Birth of Urban Modernism, Gustav Klimt: Painting and the Crisis of the Liberal Ego), McGrath

V. Anti-Semitism and the New Politics: Christian Socialism, Pan-Germanism, Zionism. Schorske: Politics in a New Key

V. We are such stuff as dreams are made on

Hofmannsthal: Poems

Freud: Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams), chapters II, III, IV, selections from V, VI, VII.

Schorske: Politics and Patricide

VI. The Puritans

Adolf Loos: Ornament and Crime

Karl Kraus: Language and Ethics

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Language and Truth

Arnold Schonberg: A New Music

VII. World War I and its aftermath

Hofmannsthal: Der Schwierige (The Difficult Man), Das grosse Salzburger Welttheater (The Great Salzburg Theater of the World), Der Turm (The Tower) - 1927 version.

Freud: Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Civilization and its Discontents)

Schiele and Kokoschka

Schšnberg: Moses und Aron

Schorske: Explosion in the Garden

VIII. Summing up

Musil: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man without Qualities)