Literature 151 Syllabus
Grade Ditribution: 2 Short Papers (30%), Final Research Paper (30%), Classs Participation (10%).
Description:  The international DADA and Surrealism movements in their multiple manifestations: literature, painting, theater, film, music and autobiography. Manifestoes and politics of aesthetism. In English, knowledge of French, German or Italian desirable.

Text book: Course-Pack, Suggested: Maurice Nadeau, The History of Surrealism, Robert Motherwell, The Dada Painters and Poets, Ado Kyrou, Le Surréalisme au cinéma

SYLLABUS

September
T    1     :    Introduction / Purpose of the course/ Short History
Th    3     :    Origins of DADA
T     8     :    The poetics of DADA: praxis and performance / Tzara (Zürich)
Th    10    :    DADA's anti-languages: Dialectics of Revolt
T     15    :    Semiotics of DADA's typographical Poetry
Th    17    :    Collage , Montage
T    22    :    The politics of DADA (Berlin)
Th    24    :    Propaganda,  social Revolution and Agit Prop.
T    29    :    Merz                                                                <<TOPICS GIVEN>>
October
Th    1     : DADA and the "Arts"
T    6     : The artistic aesthetics of DADA (New York) Pictures, Pictograms, Iconography
Th     8     :  Return to the Primitive                                                << PAPER DUE >>
                                                           FALL BREAK
Th    15    : The literary aesthetics of DADA (Paris)
T     20    : Intellectual Life in Paris circa 1920; The end of DADA
Th    22    :  You said "Surrealism"?
T    27    : Freud meets Reverdy, literature wins
Th    29    : Surrealist Manifesto: Automatic writing,
November
T    3     :    Breton et  La Révolution Surréaliste
Th    5     :    Freud,  Dreams ,  Collective                                       <<TOPICS GIVEN>>
T    10    :    Picabia  an the Spanish Connection
Th    12    :    Surrealist politics: Eluard, Aragon
T    17    :    Second Surrealist  Manifesto                                      << PAPER DUE >>
Th    19    :    The  "EX"  -- Artaud, Bataille, Leiris
Th    24    :    Dali and Paranoïa Critique
T    26    :    Artistic commodities: Miró, Masson, Kahlo,
December
T    1     :    Surrealism in America
Th    3     :    "Art Brut", "Art Naïf" and valuable 60's  schizophrenia.
T    8     :    Art as an automatic process or under KONTROL?
Th    10    :    Surrealism, Post-surrealism // Modernism, Post-Modernism