ENGL 543

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Seminar Mod British Lit

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Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: One college course devoted entirely to an aspect of modern British studies or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 543 class schedule data for spring 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	43359	Lecture-Discussion	R	1:00PM -2:50PM	T	135 English Building	Hansen, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Section Title: Nationalism, Authoritarianism, Section Info: For over seventy years, the Western world has trumpeted its faith in democracy, its stable economies, and its (at least surface level) opposition to racist nationalism. What happened? The world seems to be turning away from democratic reform and concepts like progress. This course will study the structure of 20th century authoritarian and nationalist regimes in order to assess what modes of resistance might prove effective against the overwhelming power of populist white supremacy sweeping through Europe and America. In the first section of the class, we’ll look at Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism and Robert O. Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism. Section two will involve engaging with the intellectual and scholarly models of resistance (Ideology Critique, Negative Dialectics, Psychoanalytic Perversity) that have failed to produce a social world that can build anything like a progressive consensus. In the Third Section, we’ll turn to the reflections of thinkers who lived through totalitarian regimes. The Final Section of the course will involve reading fictions that engage with the problem of an authoritarian state. Readings will include Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (and selections from Eichmann in Jerusalem),Robert Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism, Jan-Werner Müller’s What is Populism, Althusser’s On the Reproduction of Capitalism, Adorno’s History and Freedom, Zizek and Butler’s Contingency, Hegemony, Universality, Vaclav Havel’s The Power of the Powerless, Czeslaw Milosz’s The Captive Mind, Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind, Wendy Brown’s Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Angela Davis’s Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and P.D. James’s Children of Men. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.