I. Modern City / Capital of an Impossible Country
VIENNA
[Readings in the Course Packet are marked “CP”]
WEEK 1)
I. MODERN CITY / CAPITAL OF AN IMPOSSIBLE COUNTRY
(1) Tue., Sep. 7
Introduction: An impossible country?
The multiethnic Habsburg Empire [CP]
Short history timeline [CP]
(2) Thu., Sep. 9
READ FOR TODAY:
Robert Musil, “Kakania” (from The Man without Qualities, 1930) [CP]
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, “Austrian vs. Prussian” [CP]
Carl E. Schorske, pp. XVII-XXIX
WEEK 2)
(3) Tue., Sep. 14
Vienna's Ringstraße
Map of inner city [CP]
Schorske, pp. 24-62
(4) Thu., Sep. 16
Ernst Mach and “Jung Wien”
Ernst Mach, from The Analysis of Sensations (1886) [CP]
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, “Stanzas in Terza Rima” (1894) [CP]
WEEK 3)
II. SIGNS OF CRISIS
(5) Tue., Sep. 21
Urban avant-gardes: the “Kaffeehaus” culture
Schorske, pp. 3-23;
Alfred Polgar; Stefan Zweig on Viennese coffee houses [CP]
“The missing women of Vienna” [CP]
(6) Thu., Sep. 23
“Young Vienna”
Hofmannsthal, Prologue to Anatol (1892) [CP]
Arthur Schnitzler, “Die Frage an das Schicksal,” from Anatol (1892) [CP]
Hofmannsthal, Death and the Fool (1893) [CP]
Karl Kraus, “Demolished Literature” (1897) [CP]
WEEK 4)
(7) Tue., Sep. 28
Fine Arts: the “Sezession”
Schorske, pp. 208-225
Schnitzler, La Ronde (Plays and Stories, pp. 53-116)
(8) Thu., Sep. 30
Identity
Musil, Young Toerless, (1906), part 1 (to p. 87 -- “too difficult for you for the time being”.)
WEEK 5)
(9) Tue., Oct. 5
Musil, Young Toerless (1906), part 2 (pp. 87 - 159)
(10) Thu., Oct. 7
In class:
VIDEO: Young Toerless (Der junge Törleß, Volker Schlöndorff, 1965; 87 min.)
— Short Fall Break (Oct. 9 -12) —
WEEK 6)
(11) Thu., Oct. 14
Musical traditions of the Habsburg Empire (Bruckner, Mahler)
Mahler, “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” (text by Friedrich Rückert) [CP]
WEEK 7)
(12) Tue., Oct. 19
-- FIRST PAPER DUE –
Johann Strauss, Die Fledermaus (1872), info and synopsis [CP]
Johnston on the waltz [CP]
(13) Thu., Oct. 21
Social Conditions and Ethnic Conflicts
Brigitte Hamann, “The Social Question,” Hitler’s Vienna [CP]
Janik/Toulmin on the housing crisis in turn-of-the-century Vienna [CP]
Zweig on prostitution [CP]
Hamann, “Czechs in Vienna,” Hitler’s Vienna [CP]
WEEK 8)
(14) Tue., Oct. 26
Urban Modernism
Schorske, pp. 62-110
III. PLEASURE AND NOSTALGIA
(15) Thu., Oct. 28
Sexuality and Art: Gustav Klimt
Schorske, pp. 225-278
WEEK 9)
(16) Tue., Nov. 2
Arthur Schnitzler, Flirtations (Plays and Stories, pp. 1-52)
(17) Thu., Nov. 4
Richard Strauss/Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Der Rosenkavalier (1911), Act 1
WEEK 10)
(18) Tue., Nov. 9
R. Strauss/Hofmannsthal, Der Rosenkavalier (1911), Acts 2 & 3
Schorske, pp. 279-319
IV. PSYCHOLOGICAL MAN
(19) Thu., Nov. 11
Sigmund Freud, Autobiographical Study
WEEK 11)
(20) Tue., Nov. 16
Arthur Schnitzler, “Lieutenant Gustl” (1900), Plays and Stories, pp. 249-279.
Zweig on dueling [CP]
Schorske, pp. 181-207
V. CENTRIFUGAL FORCES
(21) Thu., Nov. 18
Language Crisis:
H. v. Hofmannsthal,“A Letter” [excerpts] (1902) [CP]
Johnston on Ludwig Wittgenstein [CP]
Le Rider, “The Viennese Identity Crisis” [CP]
— THANKSGIVING BREAK (Nov. 20 – 28) —
WEEK 12)
(22) Tue., Nov. 30
The Crisis of Austrian Liberalism (Georg von Schönerer, Karl Lueger)
Schorske, pp. 116-146
Hitler on Vienna, from Mein Kampf [short excerpt in CP]
-- SECOND PAPER DUE --
(23) Thu., Dec. 2
Anti-Semitism and Zionism
Theodor Herzl, “The Solution of the Jewish Question” (1896) [CP]
Schorske, pp. 146-175
VI. REORIENTATIONS
WEEK 13)
(24) Tue., Dec. 7
Revolution in Art: Kokoschka & Schiele
Schorske, pp. 322-344
Revolution in Music: Schönberg, Berg, Webern
Schorske, pp. 344-364
(25) Thu., Dec. 9
A Pioneer in Pacifism:
Bertha von Suttner, Lay down your Arms! [CP]
WEEK 14)
VII. THE DREAM IS OVER
(26) Tue., Dec. 14
Discussion of film / “Joyful Apocalypse?”
Morton on Vienna 1913/14 [CP]
Stefan Zweig on the Redl Affair [CP]
Karl Kraus, “In These Great Times” [CP]
Georg Trakl, “Grodek” [CP
Afternoon:
VIDEO, Oberst Redl (Colonel Redl, Istvan Szabo, 1985; 144 min.)