2006年度上智大学シラバス

2006/10/09更新
◆European Culture - (通)
O'LEARY Joseph
○科目サブタイトル
Two Key Novels
○講義概要
We shall study Stendhal's "The Red and the Black" (1830) in the context of French Romanticism and French history, and Dostoievski's "The Idiot" (1869) in the context of Russian history and European thought.
○評価方法
出席状況(10%)、授業参画(10%)、リアクションペーパー(15%)、レポート(75%)
○テキスト
Two Reports -- 8 pages, double spaced.
Stendhal "The Red and the Black" Penguin Classics
Dostoievski "The Idiot" Penguin Classics
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○授業計画
1France in 1830. The Revolution, the Empire, the Restoration and the July Monarchy.
2Life and works of Stendhal
3Reading "The Red and the Black", Book One, chapters 1-5. The character of Julien: pride, ambition, hypocrisy, egotism, hatred of the rich, his cult of honour and bravery, the spontaneity of his passions, his seductive qualities. The influence on him of Napoleon and Rousseau.
4Chapters 6-11. The character of Madame de Rênal: tenderness, naivety, maternal devotion, religious piety.
5The psychology of love in Stendhal.
6Chapters 12-18: adultery and deception. Madame de Rênal's qualms of conscience.
7Class distinction and the power of money. Stendhal as analyst and satirist of Restoration society and its values.
8The scene of the royal visit. Julien between the Red (Revolution, Napoleon, Jacobinism) and the Black (the Restoration, clericalism, the Ultras). Reflections on Julien's double life.
9Chapters 19-23: the crisis set off by the anonymous letters. Stendhal's portrait of M. de Rênal.
10Chapters 24-30: Julien at the Seminary. The ecclesiastical background of the novel: Jansenism, Gallicanism, Ultramontanism.
11More on the novel's picture of the Church. The Church's reaction to the French Revolution. L'Abbé Grégoire, Chateaubriand, Joseph de Maistre.
12Julien in Paris.
13More on the psychology of love.
14The tragic denouement of the novel.
15Film, "Le Rouge et le noir" (Autant-Lara)
16Russia in the 1860s
17Life and work of Dostoievski
18Reading "The Idiot": we shall read Part I and exceprpts from the other three parts.
19Part One: presentation of Myshkin
20The Yepanchin family
21The prince's obsessions
22The Ivolgins
23Rogozhin
24Nastasya
25The climactic scene
26Part II, chapters 3-5: Myshkin and Rogozhin
27Part III, chapters 5-7: Ippolit's despair.
28Part IV, chapters 8-12: the end
29continued
30Film, "Hakuchi" (Kurosawa)

  

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