The Devil's Timetable

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M Jan 8 The Bargain (introduction to the course)

• The Devil and Homer Simpson
• Sell your soul on EPray (This link is solely for purposes of illustration.)
• Read about someone who did

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W Jan 10 Histories of the Devil

• Read "Sympathy for the Devil" by R. Cruickshank
• Read chapters 2 and 3 of the Book of Genesis

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F Jan 12 Histories of the Devil II (NO RECITATION! MEET IN MEYER  HALL B3)

• Read chapter 4 of the Gospel of Matthew

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M Jan 15 Martin Luther King Day. For more info on commemoration activities at Penn click here.

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W Jan 17 The Legend of Faust Part I

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F Jan 19 Recitation: The Legend of Faust Part II

• Read the Faust Book (1587)
• Read Faust legends

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M Jan 22 Introducing Christopher Marlowe

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W Jan 24 Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

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F Jan 27 Recitation: Doctor Faustus

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M Jan 29 Who the Hell was Goethe? and Staging Faust: The Prelude in the Theater

• A virtual sight-seeing tour of Weimar
• A Reliable Biography of Goethe

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W Jan 31 The Prologue in Heaven and the Book of Job

• Read the first two and last chapter(s) of The Book of Job

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F Feb 2 Recitation: What Faust Wants (93-173)

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M Feb 5 What Faust Wants and The Wager  (173-233)

• Read the first chapter of the Gospel of John
  

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W Feb 7 The Ultimate Diversion: Walpurigis Night (235-399)

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F Feb 9 Recitation: Putting together the Gretchen story (399-421)

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M Feb 12 Part II: The Reader's Digest Version (32-44; 423-503)

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W Feb 14 The Devil and Motherhood: Rosemary's Baby 

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F Feb 16 Recitation: Rosemary's Baby: First Written Assignment Due!

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M Feb 19 The Devil Exacts His Price: Midterm (Study Guide)

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W Feb 21 The Devil and the Third Reich, A Devil's Pact with Hitler: Klaus Mann's Mephisto

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F Feb 23 Recitation:  Mann's Mephisto, "Prologue" (3-18)

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M Feb 26 Mephisto cont. (19-125)

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W Mar 1 Klaus Mann's Mephisto (127-263)

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F Mar 3 Recitation: Yeah, right.

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Mar 5-9 Spring Break: Cancun Calls! Don't forget to take your copy of Master of Margaritas, I mean Master and Margarita along!

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M Mar 12 The Devil does Moscow: Mikhail Bulgakov' Master and Margarita

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W Mar 14 Master and Margarita and Goethe's Faust

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F Mar 16 Recitation: Self-reflexivity in Master and Margarita.

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M Mar 19 The Devil and Apple Pie: The Devil and Daniel Webster

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W Mar 21  Devil and Daniel Webster

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F Mar 23 Recitation: The Devil and Apple Pie continued

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M Mar 26 The Devil in Japan: Kurosawa's Ikiru

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W Mar 28 Ikiru continued

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F Mar 30 

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M Apr 2  Infernal Music: Paganin, Tartini, and Robert Johnson

• Robert Johnson at the Crossroads

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W Apr 4 Legba and the Johnson Mystique: Trick the Devil

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F Apr 6  Recitation: Spinning the Narrative: Robert Johnson and Faust

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M Apr 9 Mephistopheles Meets Coyote: Sherman Alexie' Reservation Blues


W Apr 11  cont.

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F Apr 13 Recitation: cont

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M Apr 16 The Devil in New Orleans: Angel Heart

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W Apr 18 How Angel Heart Works

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F Apr 21 Reckoning Day (Grand Summary) NO RECITATION! MEET IN FISHER-BENNETT HALL 401.

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Creative Assignment Due

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Hell to Pay (Final Exam, Monday, April 30, from 9:00 - 11:00pm ): Study Guide