GE438: Boredom in the Literature and Film of the Berlin Republic
Student presentations
Week 2: Becci Ayling
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Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of
Work in the New Capitalism (New York, London: Norton, 1998), chapter 6
“The Work Ethic” (pp. 98-117).
Week 3: Julien Kenrick [MOVED TO WEEK 5]
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John Tomlinson, “The Condition of Immediacy” in The Culture of Speed:
The Coming of Immediacy (London: Sage, 2007), pp. 72-93.
Week 4: Rachel McLeay
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Marc Augé, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity, trans. John
Howe (London, New York: Verso, 2008), chapter 3 “From Places to NonPlaces”, pp. 61-93.
Week 5: Jess Price / Julien Kenrick
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Alison Pease, Modernism, Feminism and the Culture of Boredom
(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012), chapter 1 “Boredom and Bored Women in
the Early Twentieth Century”, pp. 1-34. (Jess)
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John Tomlinson, “The Condition of Immediacy” in The Culture of Speed: The
Coming of Immediacy (London: Sage, 2007), pp. 72-93. (Julian)
Week 6: READING WEEK
Week 7: Lucy Hodgkiss / Jessica Meins
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Andrew S. Gross, “Holocaust Tourism in Berlin: Global Memory, Trauma and
the Negative Sublime”, Journeys 7:2 (year): 73-100.
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Henryk M. von Broder, “Das Shoah Business” Der Spiegel (16) 4 April 1993
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13680385.html
Week 8: Natalie Dederichs
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Reinhard Kuhn, The Demon of Noontide: Ennui in Western Literature
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976), chapter 2 “The Demon of
Noontide”, pp. 39-64.
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Peter Toohey, Boredom: A Lively History (New Haven, London: Yale UP,
2011), chapter 4 “The Disease that Wasteth at Noonday”, pp. 107-142.
Week 9: Gabriele Schäfer
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Saskia Sassen, “The Global City: The De-Nationalizing of Time and Space”
http://90.146.8.18/en/archiv_files/20021/E2002_018.pdf
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Roger Keil and Klaus Ronneberger, “The Globalization of Frankfurt am Main:
Core Periphery and Social Conflict”, in Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial
Order, eds. Peter Marcuse, Ronald Van Kempen (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000),
pp. 228-248.
Week 10: Emily Powell / Sophie Yaron
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Françoise Wemelsfelder, “Animal Boredom: Understanding the Tedium of
Confined Lives”, in Mental Health and Well-Being in Animals, ed. Franklin
D. McMillan (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 79-91.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, “Arbeit und Langeweile” in Die fröhliche Wissenschaft,
Erstes Buch, Absatz 42 [http://www.textlog.de/21209.html]