First-Year Seminar 
Davidson College
Spring 2001
Denham
War Stories
Required Texts

Homer, The Iliad of Homer. Publisher University of Chicago Press. Translated by Lattimore, Richmond.
ISBN 0226469409. Trade Paper. Price 9.95.

Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace. Norton Critical Edition, Edited by George Gibian. WW Norton. 1995 / ISBN 0-393-96647-X.

Wolf, Christa. Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Incorporated, May , 1988. Translated by Van Heurck, Jan. ISBN 0374519048. Trade Paper US Dollars 11.00.

Crane, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage. Random House, April 1998. ISBN 0679602968.

Jünger, Ernst , Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Stormtroop Officer on the Western Front Reprint .
Publisher : Howard Fertig Incorporated, Publ. Date : July 1996. Translated by Creighton, Basil. ISBN
0865274231. Trade Paper. US Dollars 13.00.

Remarque, Erich-Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front. Fawcett Book Group, March 1987. ISBN 0449213943, US Dollars 5.99.

Graves, Robert, Good-Bye to All That. Revised edition. Doubleday & Company, Incorporated, Nov. 1957. ISBN 0385093306. Trade Paper US Dollars Price 12.00.

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Dell Publishing Company, Incorporated, Sept. 1989. ISBN 0440204399. Trade Paper
US Dollars 6.99.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five.

Grass, Günter Cat & Mouse & Other Writings. Continuum Publishing Company, Dec. 1994
Series: The German Library, Vol. 93. ISBN 0826407331. Paper Text. US Dollars 16.95.

O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. Viking Penguin, April 1991. ISBN 014014773X.
Trade Paper. US Dollars 11.95.

Mason, Bobbie Ann. In Country. Reprint. HarperCollins Publishers, Incorporated, Oct. 1986.
ISBN 0060913509. Trade Paper US Dollars 12.50.

Hacker, Diana. The Bedford Handbook 5th ed. Boston: Bedford, 1998.
 

Handouts

Denham, Scott and Irene Kacandes, "How to Read a Novel" in Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes, and Jonathan Petropoulos, eds., A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1997).

Ryan, Judith, "How to Read a Poem" in Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes, and Jonathan Petropoulos, eds.,  A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1997).

Petropoulos, Jonathan, "How to View a Painting" in Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes, and Jonathan Petropoulos, eds., A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1997).

Gemünden, Gerd, "How to Watch a Movie" in Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes, and Jonathan Petropoulos, eds., A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1997).

Owen, Wilfred, "Dulce et decorum est"

Trakl, Georg, "Grodek"
 

On Reserve

Otto Dix materials
 

Films

The three films will be shown in Perkins auditorium, scheduled at the convenience of the group.
 



 
Course Guidelines Schedule