WEEK 11: GERMANY

"Germany is a queer country: one can’t regard 

it dispassionately. I alternate between hating it 

thoroughly, stick stock and stone, and yearning 

over it fit to break my heart. I can’t help feeling 

it a young and adorable country—adolescent—

with the faults of adolescence."

—DH Lawrence

WEEK 11: GERMANY

Read: FRENCH—“Prologue: Abélard and Héloïse, Patron Saints of French Lovers” – “2: Gallant Love – La Princesse de Clèves,” “4: Seduction and Sentiment – Prévost, Crébillon fils, Rousseau, and Laclos” – “5: Love Letters – Julie de Lespinasse,” “8: Love Among the Romantics - George Sand and Alfred de Musset,” “10: Love in the Gay Nineties - Cyrano de Bergerac”

Tu 04.02

Reading discussion; Lecture—“Paris on Film”

Th 04.04

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
Due: REFLECTION 06

UPCOMING:

WEEK 12: JAPAN

Read: FRENCH—“11: Love Between Men – Verlaine, Rimbaud, Wilde, and Gide,” “13: Lesbian Love ­– Colette, Gertrude Stein, and Violette Leduc” – “14: Existentialists in Love Simone de Beauvoir and Jean­Paul Sartre,” “16: “Love in the Twenty­first Century” – Epilogue

Tu 04.09

Reading discussion; Presentations

Th 04.11

Reading discussion; Writers workshop

Due: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ESSAY (DRAFT 1; BRING 2 COPIES)