"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)
