History 621:
Modern European Culture: Histories and Theories
Fall 2004, Mon 2:30 - 5:00 pm
Synopsis:
This course offers participants an opportunity for weekly discussions of varieties of culture in great European cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--especially Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and London. Readings and discussion will be devoted in part to case studies written by historians and in part to theories that may yield useful interpretive strategies for historians (theories by Mikhail Bakhtin, Gramsci, de Certeau and others--with discussion emphasis on the implications of post-structuralism and post-modernism for historians). Themes include popular culture and mass culture, private life and public life, symbolic practice and representation, film and history, collective memory, avant-gardes and modernism. Required in addition to the reading and discussions are several short essays.
Syllabus: History 621, Fall 2004 (Save as PDF)
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