February 26: Latin American “Modernismo.” Professor Georgia Seminet. Readings: Selected chronicles and poems by José Martí. Secondary Readings: Jean Franco on Modernismo.

February 19: Romanticism, Realism and the Visual. Professor Aimee Israel-Pelletier. Readings: The Sentimental Education by Flaubert. Secondary Reading: “Realism in Literature” by Rene Wellek, from The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, Ed. Phillip P. Weiner; “Henry James on the Art of Fiction” (43-44) and “Roland Barthes on the Reality Effect in Descriptions” (35-41), from Realism (on reserve; will be available later.) Also, examine the following paintings, in this order please: 1. Courbet’s “Burial at Ornans,” “The Stonebreakers”; Manet’s “Olympia,” “L’Exposition Universelle,” and “Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère.”

For next week, in addition to reading Sab, please read the following short documents assigned by Dr. Garrigus.

In your reading of Sab, consider:

The representation of blackness, economics, city vs. country, gender and race, novel as critique of society, and passages you consider Romantic and why.

Caspar David Friedrich “Chalk Cliffs on Rugen”

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Francisco Goya

Stormy Coast Scene after a Shipwreck by Émile-Jean-Horace Vernet