ModernityandModernismHIST33109310

UCL HISTORY DEPARTMENTModernity and Modernism (HIST 3310 / 9310)Dr Axel Krner and Professor Nicola MillerMondays, 2-4pmRoom 212, 26 Gordon Square (History Department)Assessment: 1 unit: unseen 3-hour examination (3 questions: 1 on gobbets, 2 essay questions)1 unit: 10,000-word dissertation, due by 4.00 p.m. on Monday 23 April 2012Dissertation titles should be agreed with one of the course teachers no later thanFriday 20 January 2012.On deadlines and rules for submission see information on moodle at http:/moodle.ucl.ac.uk/course/search.php?search=HIST3310Contacting the teachers: Dr Axel Krner, room 212; tel: 020 7679 3617; email: a.kornerucl.ac.ukProfessor Nicola Miller, room 304; tel: 020 7679 3897; email: nicola.millerucl.ac.ukBibliography (Total required reading of primary sources: c. 1,000 pp.)The UCL Library has created an electronic resource for this course:http:/ls-tlss.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/displaylist?module=09HIST3310#seminar1Most of the required reading is accessible on-line through this link. For other items of reading this resource will provide you with a library location. Please note that there are some small variations between the librarys reading list and this syllabus. Additional materials are available on the courses moodle site under http:/moodle.ucl.ac.uk/course/search.php?search=HIST3310Please note that you need to be logged-in in order to have access to this site.List of seminar topics1. Introduction/Organisation (AK / NM)2. Latin America: The Unacknowledged Other in European Constructions of Modernity (NM)3. What is Enlightenment? (AK)4. History and the Modern (AK)5. The Concept of Aesthetics (AK)READING WEEK6. The Modernist Revolution in the Arts (AK)7. Modernism in Latin America (NM)8. Writing Modernity in Europe (AK)9. Writing Modernity in Latin America (NM)10. Form Breaks into Fragments (AK)CHRISTMAS VACATION11. Art and Revolution (NM)12. The Modern City and the Modern Crowd (NM)13. Constructing the Modern Environment. (NM)14. The Disenchantment of the World? (AK)15. The Primitive and the Modern (NM)READING WEEK16. Modernity as Decadence (AK)17. Dissertation Workshop (AK / NM)18. Dissertation Workshop (AK / NM)19. Dissertation Workshop (AK / NM)20. Conclusions (AK / NM) 1. Introduction/Organisation (NM/AK) - Rationale of the course; cultural history and its evidence; the role of theory in history- Definitions of the modernIntroductory reading (44 pp):- Marshall Berman, All That is Solid Melts into Air, London: Verso, 1982, especially pp. 15-21. The rest of the introduction is also very useful. 7 pp.- Jrgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987/1993, chapter 1, pp. 1-22. 21 pp. See also chpt. 2.- Reinhart Koselleck, The Eighteenth Century as the Beginning of Modernity, in The Practice of Conceptual History, 2002, chapter 10. 16 pp.Further reading:- Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane, eds., Modernism. A Guide to European Literature. 1890-1930. London: Penguin, 1976, 1991, esp. ch. 1, The Name and Nature of Modernism.- Gail Marshall, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de sicle. CUP: 2007; (mostly on literature).- Peter Burke, Varieties of Cultural History, 1997, esp. ch. 12, Unity and Variety in Cultural History.- Matei Calinescu, Faces of Modernity, Bloomington & London: Indiana Univ. Press, 1977, esp. The Idea of Modernity, pp. 13-92.- Stephen Hart and Nicola Miller (eds), When was Latin America Modern? New York / London: Palgrave, 2007.- Axel Krner, Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy: From Unification to Fascism. New York, 2009 (chpts. 1, 9, 10).- Jorge Larrain, Modernity and Identity: Cultural Change in Latin America, in Robert N. Gwynne and Cristbal Kay, Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity, London: Arnold, 1999, ch. 8, pp. 182-202.- Jacques Le Goff, History and Memory, trans. Steven Randall and Elizabeth Claman, New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1992, Antique (ancient)/modern, pp. 21-50.- Nicola Miller, Reinventing Modernity in Latin America: Intellectuals Imagine the Future. New York / London: Palgrave, 2008, esp. the introduction.- Nicola Miller and Stephen Hart, eds., When Was Latin America Modern?, New York/London: Palgrave, 2007, esp. the introduction and the conclusion, plus chapters 1 and 4.- Peter Osborne, Modernity is a Qualitative, not a Chronological, Category, New Left Review, no. 192, March-April 1992.- Vivian Schelling, ed., Through the Kaleidoscope: The Experience of Modernity in Latin America, London: Verso, 2000, esp. Introduction: Reflections on the Experience of Modernity in Latin America, pp. 1-33.- Peter Wagner, A Sociology of Modernity, London & New York: Routledge, 1994, esp. Ch. 1, Modes of Narrating Modernity.2. Latin America: The unacknowledged other in European constructions of modernity (NM)Required reading/primary sources (36 pp):- Enrique Dussel, Eurocentrism and Modernity (Introduction to the Frankfurt Lectures), in John Beverley, Michael Aronna and Jos Oviedo, eds., The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America, Durham and London: Duke UP, 1995, pp. 65-76. 11 pp.- G. W. F. Hegel, The New World, in Lectures on the Philosophy of World History 1837, trans. H. B. Nisbet, Cambridge: CUP, 1975, pp. 162-171. 10 pp.- Alexander von Humboldt, Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent 1814-25, trans. Jason Wilson, Penguin Books, 1995, pp. 50-53, 117-25 and 135-6. 15 pp. Jason Wilsons introduction is helpful.- Eugenia Roldn Vera and Marcelo Caruso, Introduction: Avoiding the National, Assessing the Modern, in: Eugenia Roldn Vera and Marcelo Caruso, eds., Imported Modernity in Post-Colonial State Formation, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 2007, pp. 7-28.Further reading:- Jorge Canizares, How to Write the History of the New World, 2002.- Antonello Gerbi, The Dispute of the New World, 1973.- Stephen Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.- Stuart Hall The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power, in Hall and Bram Gieben, eds., Formations of Modernity, 1992, pp. 276-318. 43 pp .- Anthony Pagden, European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993, esp. ch. 5.- Edmundo OGorman, The Invention of America: An inquiry into the historical nature of the New World and the meaning of its history, Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1961, esp. pp. 127-45. - Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, London & New York: Routledge, 1992, ch. 6, Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America.- Jos Rabasa, Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism, Oklahoma: Oklahoma Univ. Press, 1993.- Neil Safier, Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2008.- Arthur Whitaker, ed., Latin America and the Enlightenment, 1961. Written a long time ago, obviously, but there has been no subsequent book with this specific focus, so it is worth taking a look, esp. at the chapter by Charles Griffin.- Leopoldo Zea, The Latin American Mind 1949, trans. James H. Abbott and Lowell Dunham, Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1963, pp. 3-10. 3. What is Enlightenment? (AK)Required reading / primary sources 26 pp):- Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? 1784, in H. Reiss, ed., Kants Political Writings, Cambridge: CUP, 1970, pp. 54-60; also in Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. and ed. Lewis White Beck, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1950, pp. 286-92; or Kant, Perpetual Peace and other essays, trans. Ted Humphrey, Indianapolis, 1983, pp. 41-8. 7 pp.- Michel Foucault, What is Enlightenment?, in The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow, London: Penguin, 1991, pp. 32-50. 19 pp.Further reading- Franco Venturi, “Towards an Historical Dictionary. Was ist Aufklrung? Sapere aude!”, in: idem., Italy and the Enlightenment. Studies in a Cosmopolitan Century. New York University Press, 1972, 33-41.- Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Enlightenment, 1979.- Norman Geras and Robert Wokler, eds., The Enlightenment and Modernity, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000.- Jrgen Habermas, Taking Aim at the Heart of the Present: On Foucaults Lecture on Kants “What is Enlightenment?”, in Habermas, The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians Debate, ed. and trans. Shierry Weber Nicholson, Cambridge: CUP, 1989, ch. 7.- Dorinda Outram, The Enlightenment, Cambridge: CUP, 1995.- James Schmidt, ed., What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions, Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1996, esp. Schmidts Introduction: What is Enlightment? A Question, Its Context, and Some Consequences. See also Max Horkheimers critique of Enlightenment, Reason Against Itself: Some Remarks on Enlightenment, pp. 359-67.4. History and the Modern (AK)Required reading / primary sources (66 pp):Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History, translated by Leo Rauch. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett, 1988, pp. 3-13, 17-24, 35-53, 55-56, 71-73, 75-82. 45 pp. - Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology. Part 1, edited by C. J. Arthur. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1970 (1999), pp. 37, 40-51, 62-68. 19 pp.- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosophy of Right; paragraphs 341, 342, 346, 349, 352-353, in ibid., Introduction to the Philosophy of History, pp. 99-103. 2pp.Further reading- Frederick C. Beiser, “Hegels historicism”, in: idem, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Hegel. CUP, 1993, 270-300.- Richard Bellamy, Rethinking Liberalism.- Walter A. Kaufmann, Hegel (1978)- Georg Lukacs, The young Hegel (1975)- Karl Lwith, From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in 19th Century Thought, (New York, 1941)- Kants major writings on History: Immanuel Kant, On History. Edited with an Introduction by Lewis White Beck. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963, especially An Idea for a Universal History from the Cosmopolitan Point of View.German edition of Kant: Werke. Frankfurt / M.: Suhrkamp.- G. W. F. Hegel, On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy. Introductory Lectures. Edited by J. Glenny Gray. Introduction by Tom Rockmore. Indianapolis / Cambridge: Hackett, 1997.German Editions of Hegel: Frankfurt / M.: Suhrkamp, 1970.- Robert J. Antonio, ed., Marx and Modernity: Key Readings and Commentary, 2002.- Hannah Arendt, On Revolution. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973, chapter 1.- Robin G. Collingwood, The Idea of History, 1946), part III, 7.- Jrgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures, chapter 1.- Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time, 1979; chapter Modernity and the Planes of Historicity.5. The Concept of Aesthetics (AK)Required reading/primary sources (67 pp):- Kant, Critique of Judgement, trans. Werner S. Pluhar. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett, 1987, pp. 44-45, 51-56, 79-84, 165-181. 30 pp.- Friedrich von Schiller, On the aesthetic education of man: in a series of letters, trans. E. M. Wilkinson/L. A. Willoughby. Oxford: Clarendon, 1976/1982, pp. 17-35, 43, 57-67, 85-88, 95-101, 111-113, 123-127, 151-157, 163-165, 171-173, 195-201, 207-219. 37 pp.Further reading- Frederick Beiser, Schiller as Philosopher: A Re-Examination. Oxford: OUP, 2005.- Jrgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures, 1988, chapter 1, III; chapter 2, III + excursus on Schiller.- Hegel, On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy. Introductory Lectures. Edited by J. Glenny Gray. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett, 1997. (A useful edition of Hegels writings on Art in English).- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aesthetics. Lectures on Fine Arts, trans. T. M. Knox, Oxford: Clarendon, 1975, esp. chapter on Schiller.6. The Modernist Revolution in the Arts (AK)Required reading/primary sources (60 pp):- Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life, in Baudelaire, Selected Writings on Art and Literature. Translated with an introduction by P. E. Charvet. London: Penguin, 1992 (extracts, 7 pp.)- Charles Baudelaire, Richard Wagner and Tannhuser in Paris, in: ibid., pp. 325-357. 28 pp.- Richard Wagner, The Music of the Future, trans. E. Dannreuther. London: Schott, 1873, pp. 7-9, 19-24, 29-32, 38-41, 47-49. 16 pp.- Friedrich Nietzsche, Wagner in Bayreuth, in: Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations, trans. R .J. Hollingdale, Cambridge: CUP, 1983, pp. 202-203, 213-216, 219, 229-231, 240-243. 9 pp.Further reading- Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal, edited with an introduction by G. Chesters. Bristol: Classical Press, 1995.- Marshall Berman, All That is Solid Melts into Air, 1982, ch. 3, Baudelaire: Modernism in the Streets.- Angelo Philip Bertocci, From Symbolism to Baudelaire. Cabondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1964.- David Hillery, Music and Poetry in France from Baudelaire to Mallarm. New York: Lang, 1980.- Claude Pichois, Baudelaire. London: Hamilton, 1987. (Biography)- Jean-Paul Sartre, Baudelaire (in French). Paris: Gallimard, 1975.- Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire. A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism. London: Verso, 1973, 1997.- David C.Large/William Weber, eds., Wagnerism in European Culture and Politics. Ithaca / London, 1984.- Axel Krner, Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy: From Unification to Fascism. New York, 2009 (chpt. 9)- Arthur Schopenhauer, Schopenhauer, philosophy, and the arts, edited by Dale Jacquette. Cambridge University Press, 1996.- Arthur Schopenhauer, The world as will and representation, New York : Dover Publications, 1966, c1969.Baudelaire in French: Critique dart, suivi de Critique musicale. Editions Gallimard, 1976 (Folio, 1992).Wagner in German: Gesammelte Schriften und Dichtungen, Bd. 7. Leipzig: Fritzsch, 1888.7. Modernism in Latin America (NM)Required reading/primary sources (24 pp):- Jos Mart, Our America 1891, in Jos Mart Reader: Writings on the Americas, ed. Deborah Shnookal and Mirta Muiz, 1999, pp. 111-20. 10pp.- Rubn Daro, Selected Poems, trans. Lysander Kemp, Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1988: In Winter from Azul (1888), p. 45; The Swan from Prosas profanas 1896, p. 55; and To Roosevelt from Cantos de vida y esperanza 1906, pp. 69-70. 4 pp.- Pau-Brasil Poetry Manifesto 1924 and Anthropophagite Manifesto 1928, in Dawn Ades, Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980, London: The South Bank Centre, 1989, pp. 310-13. 4 pp.- Csar Vallejo, Trilce, trans. Rebecca Seiferle, New York: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1992, poems XXII, p. 49; XXXII, p. 71 and XXXVI. pp. 81-2. 4 pp.- Pablo Neruda, Residence on Earth, a bilingual edition, trans. Donald Walsh, London: Souvenir Press, 1976: Walking Around, pp. 119 & 121. 2 pp.Further reading- Christopher Abel and Nissa Torrents, Jos Mart: Revolutionary Democrat, 1986, esp. chs. 6 & 7.- Gerard Aching, The Politics of Spanish American modernismo: By exquisite design, Cambridge: CUP, 1997.- Carlos Alonso, The Burden of Modernity: The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Latin America, New York: OUP, 1998.- Jeffrey Belnap and Ral Fernndez, Jos Marts “Our America”: From national to hemispheric cultural studies, 1998.- Leslie Bethell, ed., Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. IV, Cambridge: CUP, 1986, ch. by Charles Hale, Political and Social Ideas in Latin America, 1870-1930 for context and ch. by Gerald Martin, The Literature, Music and Art of Latin America, 1870-1930.- Leslie Bethell, ed., Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. X, Cambridge: CUP, 1995, pp. 15-43 on modernism.- Gordon Brotherston, ed., Spanish American Modernista Poets: A Critical Anthology, London: Bristol Classical Press, 2nd edn. 1995, esp. the introduction, pp. vii-xviii.- Jean Franco, The Modern Culture of Latin America: Society and the Artist, 1967, ch. on the avant-garde.- Anthony L. Geist and Jos B. Monlen, eds., Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America, 1999.- Mike Gonzalez and David Treece, The Gathering of Voices: The Twentieth-Century Poetry of Latin America, London: Verso, 1992, esp. chs. 1-3.- Stephen Hart and Nicola Miller (eds), When was Latin America Modern? New York / London: Palgrave, 2007.- Cathy Jrade, Modernismo, modernity and the development of Spanish American Literature, Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1998.- Jorge Larrain, Identity and Modernity in Latin America, Cambridge: Polity, 2000, esp. ch. 3 Oligarchic Modernity and ch. 4 The End of Oligarchic Modernity.- Jorge Larrain, Modernity and Identity: Cultural Change in Latin America, in Robert N. Gwynne and Cristbal Kay, Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity, London: Arnold, 1999, ch. 8, pp. 182-202.- Nicola Miller, Reinventing Modernity in Latin America: Intellectuals Imagine the Future. New York / London: Palgrave, 2008.- Pablo Neruda, Memoirs, trans. 1978.- Octavio Paz, The Siren and the Seashell on Daro and modernismo, in his The Siren and the Seashell and other essays on poets and poetry, trans. Lysander Kemp and Margaret Sayers Peden, Austin & London: Univ. of Texas Press, 1976, pp. 17-56.- Angel Rama, The Lettered City, 1984, trans. 1996.- Julio Ramos, Divergent Modernities: Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, trans. John D. Blanco, Durham & London: Duke Univ. Press, 2001, esp. ch 9 Nuestra Amrica: The Art of Good Governance, pp. 251-67.- Susana Rotker, The American Chronicles of Jos Mart: Journalism and Modernity in Spanish America, 2000.- Martin Stabb, In Quest of Identity, 1967, ch. III, The Revolt Against Scientism and ch. IV America Rediscovered. - Iris Zavala, Colonialism and Culture: Hispanic American Modernisms and the Social Imaginary, 1992.8. Writing Modernity in Europe (AK)Required reading/primary sources (191 pp):- Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck, various editions. (100 pp.)OR- Kafka, Metamorphosis, various editions. (60 pp.)plus- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land 1922, in his Collected Poems 1909-1962, London: Faber and Faber, 1963, pp. 63-79 (and numerous other editions). 17pp.- Virginia Woolf, The Waves, edited by James M. Haule and Philip H. Smith, Jr.Oxford:Blackwell, 1993, ch. 1, pp. 3-17 (and numerous other editions).Further reading- Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and Ambivalence. Oxford: Polity, 1991, “Excursus: Franz Kafka, or the rootlessness of universality” pp. 85 ff.- Julian Preece, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Kafka.- Sally Ledger, Ibsen, 1999.- Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin 1892-1940, in: Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, ed. H. Arendt, trans. H. Zorn. London: Cape, 1970, 1-58.- Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka and Max Brods book on Kafka, in: ibid., Illuminations, ed. H. Arendt, trans. H. Zorn. London: Cape, 1970, 111-148.- Malcolm Bradbury & J. McFarlane, eds., Modernism. A Guide to European Literature. 1890-1930. London: Penguin, 1976, 1991.- C. B. Cox and Arnold P. Hinchliffe, The Waste Land: A Casebook, London: Macmillan, 1968.- Christine Froul