Lit M401H

Dr T G Hartman
2012 -2014

Provisional Schedule as of Autumn Term 2012

Recommended Pre-Reading
Pericles Lewis: Cambridge Introduction to Modernism
Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish
Susan Sontag: Reborn: Early Diaries, 1947-1963; ‘Notes on Camp’
Jonathan Culler: Literary Theory: A Short Introduction
Malcolm Bull, Between the Cultures of Capital, New Left Review, 2001
Module 1
The Literature of/from the American South
1
*Carson McCullers: The Member of the Wedding
*Flannery O’Connor – Everything the Rises Must Converge, The Enduring Chill, The
Comforts of Home & other short stories from Collected Short Stories
William Faulkner: A Rose for Emily (Short Story)*
*William Faulkner: Light in August
*William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Cambridge Companion to Faulkner – Chronology; Chapter 1: ‘Faulkner and Modernism’;
Chapter 3: ‘Faulkner and Postmodernism’; Chapter 7: ‘Race in Light in August’; Conclusion:
‘Reading Faulkner’.
*Tennessee Williams: Stories. (edition with Introduction by Gore Vidal; Entire Book
including: The Yellow Bird, Two on a Party, Desire and the Black Masseur, The Knightly
Quest, Three Players of a Summer Game, The Inventory at Fontana Bella, The Killer
Chicken…)
John Jeremiah Sullivan: ‘Mister Lytle’ (Essay in the Paris Review, Fall 2010)
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
James Baldwin, Another Country
Langston Hughes, Selected poems
‘The Harlem Renaissance’, in A History of Gay Literature, pp. 209-216
*Tennessee Williams reading ‘The Yellow Bird’ (Recording)
Module 2
French Fiction and The Long 19th Century
1
A Concise History of France, Roger Price, CUP, 2nd Edition. Chapter 5: ‘The Nineteenth
Century: Continuity and Change’
David Harvey: Paris, Capital of Modernity
*Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governemntality (Burchell, Gordon & Miller eds.). Chapter
1: ‘Governmental Rationality’; Chapter 4: ‘Governmentality’; Chapter 7: ‘Social Economy
and the government of Poverty’.
Balzac, Père Goriot (1835)
Balzac, Sarrasine (1830)
Flaubert: Madame Bovary (1856)
*Flaubert, A Sentimental Education (1869)
The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert, Timothy Unwin (2004). Chapter 1 (‘Gustave
Flaubert, the hermit of Croiset’); Chapter 2 (‘Flaubert’s Place in Literary History’)
*Zola: Thérèse Raquin (1867)
The Cambridge Companion to Emile Zola (Brian Nelson ed.): Chapter 4: Questions of
sexuality and gender; Chatper 1: Zola and the 19th Century; Chapter 3: Zola and the
Representation of Society; Chapter 7: Thérèse Raquin animal passion and the brutality of
reading
Zola, ‘J’accuse’ (1898)
Jacqueline Rose: ‘J’accuse: Dreyfus in our Time’ (London Review of Books, April/June 2010)
(Video: http://www.lrb.co.uk/2010/04/21/jacqueline-rose/jaccuse-dreyfus-in-our-time)
André Gide: L’immoralist (1902)
Walter Benjamin, From The Arcades Project
Susan Buck-Morss: The Flaneur, the Sandwichman and The Whore: The Politics of Loitering
(New German Critique No. 39, 1986)
2
Graham Robb: Strangers
Henry James: The Ambassadors
Rimbaud, Le Bateau Ivre; Selected Poems
Edmund White: Rimbaud, The Double Life of a Rebel
Zola, L’assomoir (1877)
Paul Rabinow: French Modern, Selected Chapters.
Module 3
Obsession 1: Total Knowledge, Inventories, Order;
Ennumeration; List-making; Collecting
1
*Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones
*Susan Sontag: Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963
*Susan Buck-Morss: ‘Envisioning capital: political economy on display’ (Critical Inquiry 21,
1995)
Le Cabinet de Curiosités de Madame Clouette
Gaston Bachelard: The Poetics of Space
Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Andrei Platonov, The Fierce and Beautiful world
*Flaubert: Bouvard & Pécuchet
Michel Foucault: ‘Governmentality’
Michel Foucault, summaries of The Order of Things, Archaeology of Knowledge
Edward Gorey, ‘The Chinese Obelisk’; ‘The Glorious Nosebleed’; ‘The Audrey-Gore
Legacy’; ‘The Utter Zoo’ (In Amphigorey Too or Amphigorey Also)
Malcolm Bull, ‘The Social and The Political’ (South Atlantic Quarterly)
Thomas More: Utopia
Harry Matthews: ‘Country Cooking from Central France’. From The Human Country,
collected stories
*Georges Perec: Les Choses (Things: A Story of the Sixties)
Tod Hartman: ‘On the Ikeaisation of France’ (Public Culture, 2007)
Jean Baudrillard: The System of Objects
2
Rosenberg and Grafton: Cartographies of Time
Harry Matthews: The Journalist
*Georges Perec: La Vie Mode d’Emploi (Life A User’s Manual)
Paul Rabinow: French Modern, Selected Chapters. Cross-listed with France 19th Century
Module.
Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things; Archaeology of Knowledge
Module 4
Utopia; Vanishing Points of Reality; Escapism,
Sensuality and Pure Experience; Orientalism
1
*Malcolm Lowry: Under The Volcano
*Joan Didion on California in the 1960s and 1970s
*Anais Nin, Delta of Venus; Little Birds
*Walter Benjamin: ‘Hashish in Marseille’
*Pericles Lewis, Cambridge Introduction to Modernism. Chapter 1 (Flaubert, Baudelaire,
Wilde)
*Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky
Thomas De Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Mallarmé, Selected Poems
Flaubert: Voyage en Orient
*Hergé: Tintin and the Blue Lotus
Edward Gorey, Amphigorey, Amphigorey Too, Amphigorey Also
Ronald Firbank: Three Novels
Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
Guy Davenport: Da Vinci’s Bicycle
Michel Houellebecq: Platform
2
Perry Anderson: ‘The River of Time’ (New Left Review, 2004)
Fantastic Realism, in A History of Gay Literature, pp. 226-236
Edmund White: Genet
Marguerite Young: Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
Marquis de Sade: Justine; Salò
Edward Said: Orientalism
Alain Grosrichard: The Sultan’s Court
Susan Buck-Morss: Dreamworld and Catastrophe
Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe
Susan Sontag: ‘Questions of Travel’
Module 5
Pre-war British Fiction
1
F R Leavis, Towards a Standard of Criticism, Introduction(s), Fiction, General Criticism,
Miscellaneous Comments, Valediciton; from The Common Pursuit: ‘Keynes, Lawrence and
Cambridge’; ‘E M Forster’; ‘The Wild, Untutored Phoenix’; ‘Literature and Society’
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet. Chapter 4: The Beast in the Closet:
‘Criticism and the Reading Public,’
*Lytton Statchey, Eminent Victorians
William Trevor, ‘Going Home’ (short story) in Oxford Book of Short Stories, V. S. Pritchett
ed.
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own; To the Lighthouse; Journals
D H Lawrence, The Rainbow
E M Forster, Maurice; A Passage to India
Alan Hollinghurst: ‘Poor Dear, How She Figures!’ (The London Review of Books, January
2013; on E M Forster’s diaries)
*Jean Rhys, Good Morning Midnight, Wide Saragosso Sea
Ronald Firbank: Three Novels (The Flower Beneath The Foot; Sorrow in Sunlight;
Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli)
Alan Hollinghurst, 'The shy, steely Ronald Firbank' [revision of the third of the 2006 Lord
Northcliffe Lectures given at University College, London, October 2006], in Times Literary
Supplement (2006 November)
Christopher Isherwood: Mr Norris Changes Trains; Berlin Diaries
Frank Kermode: ‘Even Paranoids Have Enemies’, The London Review of Books, February
1983. (On George Gissing).
*Sybille Bedford: A Legacy; Jigsaw
*Iris Murdoch, Under the Net
Evelyn Waugh: Decline and Fall; Brideshead Revisited
George Gissing, New Grub Street
Frank Kermode, ‘Squalor’, The London Review of Books, August 1995. (On George Gissing)
George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
2
Gomme, 1964, from The Pelican Guide to English Literature, vol. 7, (pp. 350-376)
Mary Butts, Armed with Madness
Philip Larkin, Jill; A Girl in Winter
Aldous Huxley: Chrome Yellow; Point Counter Point
Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
Module 6
The Idea of Modernism/Modernity
1
*Malcolm Bull, ‘Between the Cultures of Capital.’ NLR. 2001
*Pericles Lewis: Cambridge Introduction to Modernism
Eve Kosovsky Segdwick, The Epistemology of the Closet, Introduction
*Susan Sontag ‘Notes on Camp’; ‘Against Interpretation’
Clement Greenberg, Avant-Garde and Kitsch
*Terry Castle, ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’, London Review of Books
Walter Benjamin: ‘The work of art in age of mechanical Reproduction’
Owen Hatherley: Militant Modernism
Alain Badiou: The Century
Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov: ‘On Heterochrony: birthday gifts to Stalin, 1949’, Journal of the
Royal Anthropological Society (2006)
Gertrude Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Frank Kermode: ‘Intelligent Theory’ (London Review of Books, 1982)
2
Gertrude Stein: The Making of Americans (excerpt)
Frank Kermode, ‘A Likely Story’ (London Review of Books, 1996; On Hodgkin)
Susan Sontag: ‘About Hodgkin’
Module 7
Post-War British Fiction
1
*Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano
Alan Bennett, Untold Stories; The Lady in the Van;
Muriel Spark: A Far Cry from Kensington; The Public Image
Jenny Turner, ‘She Who Can Do No Wrong’ (On Muriel Spark) London Review of Books
(August 1992)
Philip Larkin, High Windows (poem)
Stephen Benatar, Wish her Safe at Home
A Taste of Honey (film)
The Loneliness of a Middle-Distance Runener (film)
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook; The Diaries of Jane Somers
Who was Dr Charlotte Bach?
*Patricia Duncker: Hallucinating Foucault
Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library; The Art of Fiction No. 214 (The Paris
Review 199, Winter 2011)
Zadie Smith, White Teeth
2
The Post-War Starting Point, in A History of Gay Literature, pp. 257-266
Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey
Maggie Gee: My Cleaner
Alan Bennett: Annual ‘Diaries’ from the London Review of Books
Marco Livingstone: David Hockney
Jane Hill, The Art of Dora Carrington
Joe Orton: The Orton Diaries
Module 8
Opposite: Ambiguity; Outsiders
*Carmen Laforet, Nada
Michel Foucault, ‘The Abnormals’, p. 51-57, in Ethics, The Essential Works of Foucault
1954-1984
*Giorgio Agamben Homo Sacer; State of Exception
Robert Castel, ‘From dangerousness to risk’, in The Foucault Effect: Studies in
Governmentality.
*Gore Vidal, Myra Breckenridge
*Stephen Benatar, Wish her Safe at Home
Camus, L’étranger
*Film: Fassbinder: Fox and Friends
*Film: Pasolini: Accatone
*Irène Némirovsky: The Ball
André Maurois, The Art of Living, ‘The art of Marriage, ‘The Art of Family Life’
The Hite Report on Male Sexuality
The Hite Report on Female Sexuality
Tod Hartman ‘Dear Dear Leader’ Granta. (Granta: NW15: The Anthology of New Writing,
2007)
*Gore Vidal: The City and the Pillar
*Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
*James Baldwin, Another Country
*James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
*Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
Klauss Mann: The Pathetic Symphony; The Pious Dance
*Foucault, Madness and Civilization, Selected Chapters
Henri de Montherlant: The Bachelors.
*Roberto Bolaño, A History of Nazi Literature in the Americas.
Balzac, Sarrasine
*Patricia Duncker: Hallucinating Foucault
*Edward Gorey, ‘The Loathsome Couple’; ‘The Green Beads’ (In Amphigorey Also)
*Malcolm Bull, Slavery and the Multiple Self (New Left Review, 1998)
Homosexual Men by Women, in A History of Gay Literature, pp. 201-208
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
Diana Souhami bio of Radclyffe Hall
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet. Chapter 4: The Beast in the Closet:
James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic.
Module 9
20th Century Germanophone Writing
1
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem
*Kafka, The Castle; The Trial
Frederic Jameson on Walter Benjamin in London Review of Books and LRB and book 1995
*Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain.
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann (Ritchie Robertson ed.) Preface; Chronology;
List; Chapter 1 (‘Mann and history’); Chapter 2 (‘The Intellectual World of Thomas Man’);
Chapter 4 (‘Mann’s man’s world: gender and sexuality’); Chapter 6 (‘Classicism and its
pitfalls: Death in Venice’). Other chapters to be chosen as a function of student’s novel-
reading selection.
*Susan Sontag, Reborn (The early diaries), pp. 56-61 (sketch of meeting with Thomas
Mann); ‘Novel into Film : Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz’; ‘Wagner’s Fluids’
*Fassbinder: The Marriage of Maria Braun; Fox and Friends; The Bitter Tears of Petra von
Kant; Ali; Lili Marleen; Berlin Alexanderplatz: Germany in Autumn (films)
Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; Philosophical Investigations
Ray Monk: Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Duty of a Genius
*Thomas Bernhard, Correction
*Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities
*Robert Walser: Jakob von Gunten
Elfriede Jelenik, Lust
Klaus Mann: The Pathetic Symphony
*Walter Benjamin, Selections from Complete Works
2
Josef Albers, Interaction of Colour; Josef Albers, National Touring Exhibition from the South
Bank Centre 1984 (Exhibition Catalogue Text)
Excerpt from Stockhausen’s Writings
Charles Rosen, Schoenberg
Thomas Mann: Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, Budenbrooks, Lotte in Weimar,
Ernest Gellner: Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Hapsburg
Dilemma
Module 10
Meaning, Anti-Meaning & The Breakdown of Order
1
*Malcolm Bull, ‘Between the Two Cultures of Capital’, New Left Review 11, 2001
T J Clark, ‘Origins of the Present Crisis’ (New Left Review, 2000); Farewell to an Idea
*Frederic Jameson, ‘Postmoderism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’ (New Left
Review, 1984) (Best single article on Postmodernism)
Susan Sontag: ‘Against Interpretation’; ‘Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes’
Valérie Mréjen: ‘Family History’ (The Paris Review 199, Winter 2011)
*Antonioni: La Notte (film)
*Harry Matthews: My Life in CIA
Thomas Osborne: ‘Against Creativity: A Philistine Rant’ (Economy and Society, 2003)
*Edward Gorey, The Beastly Baby (In Amphigorey Too)
Daniel Chandler: Semiotics (Introduction, Chapters 1 & 2)
Postmodernism, A Very Short Introduction
*Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity
*David Harvey: The Condition of Postmodernism
2
Susan Buck-Morss: Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and
West
Derrida text
Introduction to Derrida
LRB article on Derrida
Introduction to Barthes
Module 11
Obsession; Stalking; The Love Object
1
Amélie Nothomb, The Stranger Next Door (Les Catilinaires)
*Fassbinder, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (film)
*James Baldwin: Giovanni’s Room
*Flaubert, A Sentimental Education
*Françoise Sagan: Bonjour, Tristesse
*Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
*Edmund White, The Married Man
*Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café
*Nabokov, Pale Fire; Lolita
*Edward Gorey: ‘The Blue Aspic’ (In Amphigorey Also)
2
Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse
Death in Venice (Britten opera) at the ENO Spring/Summer 2013
Module 12
Modern & Contemporary American Writing
1
JD Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Lorrie Moore: Short Stories
*Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
John Cheever, ‘Reunion’ (1 page New Yorker short story)
*Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird
Patrick Dennis: Auntie Mame; Around the World with Auntie Mame; Genius; Tony; Others
Joan Didion: The White Album, ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’
Edmund White: My Lives; City Boy
Shirley Jackson, ‘The Lottery’ (Short story in the New Yorker)
Gore Vidal: The City and the Pillar; Myra Breckenridge
*Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky
*Joyce Carol Oates: Widow’s Story; ‘Where are you going, where have you been’?; Excerpts
from Journals
*Susan Sontag: Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963; As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh;
‘Notes on Camp’
Gertrude Stein: Three Lives
Terry Castle: ‘Terror on the Vineyard’; ‘Travels with my mom’; ‘Desperately Seeking
Susan’; ‘Husbands and Wives’ (London Review of Books)
*Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar
*Truman Capote: In Cold Blood; Short Stories
*Bruce Benderson: Pacific Agony
Janet Malcolm: The Art of Nonfiction No. 4 (The Paris Review 196, Spring 2011)
2
Max Apple: The Propheteers
Sam Lipsyte, ‘The Worm in Philly’ (The Paris Review 194, Fall 2010)
Joyce Carole Oates, Marya; Mudwoman; Solstice
Janet Malcolm, ‘Special Needs’, New York Review of Books
John Updike: Rabbit Angstrom; The Complete Henry Bech
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five; Breakfast of Champions; God Bless You, Mr.
Rosewater; Player Piano
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
Thomas Pynchon: Vineland; Gravity’s Rainbow
Gilbert Sorrentino: Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things: The Sky Changes?
Domnick Dunne: The Two Mrs Grenvilles; People Like Us
Anne Tyler, Picturing Will
Module 13
Late Capitalism
*Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
David Harvey: A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Michel Houellebecq, Platform; Atomised
*Roland Barthes: Mythologies
Julian Barnes ‘Hate and Hedonism’ (The New Yorker, 2003) On Houellebecq
Georges Perec: Les Choses (Things: A Story of the Sixties)
Antonioni: La Notte (film)
Hardt & Negri: Empire
Giorgio Agamben: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life; State of Exception
Aihwa Ong: Neoliberalism as Exception (Introduction and Chapter 9, ‘A Biocartography’)
*Barbara Ehrenreich: Smile or Die
*Barbara Ehrenreich, RSA Animate Talk http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/2010/03/17/rsa-
animate-smile-die/
*Malcolm Bull: ‘The Limits of Multitude’ (New Left Review)
Maggie Gee: My Cleaner
Tod Hartman: ‘What is the Big Society’?
David Harvey: ‘The Right to the City’ (New Left Review); Neoliberalism as Creative
Destruction’ (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2007);
*Slavoj Žižek: The Ticklish Subject (espec. Chapter 4); ‘Danger what Danger’; Žižek in RSA
Animate:
http://www.thersa.org/events/rsaanimate/animate/rsa-animate-first-as-tragedy,-then-as-farce
James Ferguson: ‘Of Mimicry and Membership: Africans and the “New World Society”’
(Cultural Anthropology, 2002)
Didier Fassin & Estelle d’Halluin: ‘The Truth from the Body’. American Anthropologist,
2005
Module 14
Cross-Period Reading Theme: ‘Inconvenient Women’

Henry James: Portrait of a Lady

Domnick Dunne: An Inconvenient Woman
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Joyce Carol Oates, Marya or Mudwoman
Doris Lessing, The Summer Before the Dark
Stephen Benatar: Wish Her Safe at Home
Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar
Module 15
The Future
1
China Miéville, The City and the City
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
George Orwell: 1984
Michel Houellebecq: Possibility of an Island
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Alain Badiou: Infinite Thought
Jacques Rancière: ‘Politics and Aesthetics: An Interview’ (Angelaki, 2003)
Samuel Chambers: ‘The Politics of Literarity’ (Theory and Event 8:3)
Peter Hallward: ‘Staging Equality: On Ranciere’s Theatocracy’ New Left Review, 2006);
‘Generic Sovereignty: The Philosophy of Alain Badiou’ (Angelaki, 1998)
Paul Rabinow & Nikolas Rose ‘Foucault Today’ In The Essential Foucault 1954-1984
Future Timelines futuretimeline.net
2
Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude
Göran Therborn: ‘Class in the 21st Century’ (New Left Review, 2012)
Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics; Dissensus
Alain Badiou: Being and Event
Peter Hallward: Badiou: A Subject to Truth