Tu. Sept. 4

Course Objectives; Syllabus; Turn-of-the-Century Vienna in U.S. Culture

Th. Sept. 6

The Ringstraße & Austrian Biedermeier Culture [read Schorske, ch. 2, pp. 24-72]

Cultural History: Biedermeier Furniture & Painting

Tu. Sept. 11

Architectural Modernism:  Otto Wagner & Adolf Loos [read Schorske, ch. 2, pp. 72-110

Th. Sept. 13

Class Structure of Viennese Society; Cultural Values; “Center” & Margins [read Schorske, ch. 3]

Cultural History: The Croissant

Tu. Sept. 18

The Concept of the Individual (Mach) and Psychoanalysis (Freud) [read Schorske, ch. 4]

Cultural History: The Jelly Donut

Th. Sept. 20

The Interpretation of Dreams [read Freud: excerpt from Dora & “Hysteria & Bisexuality”]

Cultural History: Viennese Bread

Tu. Sept. 25

Coffeehouses & Literary Culture [read Schorske, ch. 1]

Cultural History: Viennese Coffee

Th. Sept. 27

Vienna & the Military Tradition [read Lt. Gustl in reader; view Colonel Redl when possible ]

Cultural History: Johann Strauss Sr.’s Radetzky Marsch

Tu. Oct. 2

Schnitzler’s La Ronde vs. Ophuels's La Ronde:  [read text & view film]

Cultural History: Meals in Turn-of-the-Century Viennese Culture

Th. Oct. 4

Crisis of Language [read Hofmannsthal’s Letter of Lord Chandos]

Sachertorte = has to be deferred. Sorry.

Tu. Oct. 9

No Class. Monday Schedule.

Th. Oct. 11

Hofmannsthal's Chandos; The Spiritual in Art; Musil'd Young Toerless [read first half Musil’s
Young Törless]

Tu. Oct. 16

Homoeroticism and Cultural Hegemony [finish reading Musil’s Young Törless]

Th. Oct. 18

In-Class Midterm Examination

Tu. Oct. 23

The Viennese Waltz [listening assignment: Johann Strauß, Jr. waltzes]: bring leather-soled shoes to class.

Cultural History: Dancing the Viennese Waltz

Th. Oct. 25

The Viennese Operetta [start with Fledermaus]

Tu. Oct. 30

Johann Strauß, Jr.’s Die Fledermaus [read libretto]

Th. Nov. 1

Johann Strauß, Jr.’s Die Fledermaus [listen to music]

(Nov. 6 cancelled)

Th. Nov. 8                    

Viennese Opera:  Hofmannsthal/Richard Strauß’s Der Rosenkavalier [read libretto]

Tu. Nov. 13

Viennese Opera: R. Strauss’s Music to the Rosenkavalier[listen to music of Act III]

Th. Nov. 15

Schoenberg’s Book of the Hanging Gardens [texts in reader; listen to music;

Schorske on Schoenberg in ch. 7

Tu. Nov. 20

Viennese Lieder: Chinoiserie. Mahler’s Song of the Earth/Das Lied von der Erde

 [read texts & listen to music]

Tu. Nov. 27

Klimt [read Schorske, ch. 5] (images on U-drive for 11/27 & 11/29)

Th. Nov. 29

Klimt (continued)

Tu. Dec. 4            

Arts & Crafts Movements: Wiener Werkstätte for Design

Th. Dec. 6

Expressionism: Schiele.

Tu. Dec. 11

Expressionism: Kokoschka [Schorske on Kokoschka in ch. 7]

Th. Dec. 13

Last Class:  Evaluations & Summary