Advanced Topics: Plotting Terror in European Culture

Lecture Notes

LEC #	TOPICS	NOTES
1	Introduction	(PDF)
2	DeLillo. Mao II.	(PDF)
3	Said. “The Essential Terrorist.” Lentricchia and McAuliffe.“Groundzeroland.” Scanlan. Plotting Terror. Introduction.	(PDF)
4	Trotta, Von. Marianne and Juliane.
5	Elsaesser. “Antigone Agonistes.” Baumann. “How Everything Started.”	(PDF)
6	Kleist. Michael Kohlhaas.	(PDF)
7	Wittkowski. “Is Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas a Terrorist?”	(PDF)
8	Fleming. “Propaganda by Deed: Terrorism and Anarchist Theory in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe.” Bakunin. God and State. Kropotkin. “The Spirit of Revolt”	(PDF)
9	Conrad. The Secret Agent.	(PDF)
10	Jordan. The Crying Game.
11	Gillon. “The Desperate Shape of Betrayal.”
12	Lessing. The Good Terrorist. Scanlan. “Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist.” Corrado. “The Evolution of the Irish Republican Army.”	(PDF)
13	Fo. The Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Wieviorka. “The Italian Phenomenon of Leftist Extremist Terrorism.”	(PDF)
14	Rosi. Three Brothers.
15	Dürrenmatt. The Assignment. Crockett. Understanding Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The Assignment.	(PDF)
16	Böll. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum. Corrado. “The History of the German Student Movement and the Birth of the Baader-Meinhof Group.”	(PDF)
17	Richter. 18. Oktober 1977. Grimonprez. Dial History.	(PDF)