Seminar: Historiography of the Aesthetic Disciplines

Literature for the course:

Arblaster, Anthony: Viva la libert! Politics in Opera, London: Verso 1992, 24-31
(compendium).
Backscheider, Paula R.: Reflection on Biography, Oxford & New York: Oxford University
Press, 2001 (1999), 132-39 (compendium).
Baker, Felicity: The Radical Poetry of Don Giovanni, in Cross-References: Modern French
Theory and the Practice of Criticism, eds. David Kelley & Isabelle Llasera, Leeds:
Society for French Studies 1986, 123-35 (compendium).
Chamberlain, Mary & Thompson, Paul: Introduction: Genre and Narrative in Life Stories,
in Narrative and Genre, eds. M. Chamberlain & P. Thompson, London: Routledge
1998, 1-7 (compendium).
Da Ponte, Lorenzo: Il dissoluto punito ossia Il Don Giovanni (1787). The libretto for the
opera by W. A. Mozart (find translation and music yourself).
Elias, Norbert: Towards a Theory of Social Processes, transl. Robert van Kriegen & Eric
Dunning, British Journal of Sociology 48/3, September 1997 (1977), 355-83 (JSTOR).
Hammergren, Lena: Intertextuality and Historiography: Reading a Dancers Career, in
SDHS Proceedings, 1999, 117-21 (compendium).
Hoffmann, E. T. A.: Don Giovanni: A Marvelous Adventure Which Befell a Traveling
Enthusiast, transl. Abram Loft, Musical Quarterly 31/4, October 1945 (1813), 504-16
(JSTOR).
Ong, Walter J.: Writing and the Evolution of Consciousness, Mosaic 18/1, winter 1985,
1-10 (compendium).
Picchione, John: Baroque Poetry in Italy: Deception, Illusion, and Epistemological Shifts,
in Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons, Corrado Federici & Ernesto Virgulti (eds.): Disguise,
Deception, Trompe-L'il: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, New York: Peter Lang 2009,
61-70 (compendium).
Schneider, Magnus Tessing: file with historical sources related to Don Giovanni (Mondo).
Wlfflin, Heinrich: Introduction Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development
of Style in Later Art, transl. M. D. Hottinger, New York: Dover Publications 1950
(1915), 1-4, 6, 8-17 (compendium).

General background:
Carroll, Joseph: Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature, London &
New York: Routledge 2004.
Fay, Brian; Philip Pomper & Richard T. Vann (eds.): History and Theory: Contemporary
Readings, Oxford & Malden, Mass.: Blackwell 1998.
Foucault, Michel: The Order of Discourse (1971).
Fulbrook, Mary: Historical Theory, London & New York: Routledge 2002.
Iggers, Georg G.: Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the
Postmodern Challenge. Hanover & London: Wesleyan University Press 1997.
Jenkins, Keith: Re-Thinking History, London & New York: Routledge 1991 (1999).
--------: Why History? Ethics and Postmodernity, London & New York: Routledge 1999.
Kaufmann, Erik P. (ed.): Rethinking Ethnicity. Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities,
London & New York: Routledge 2004.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara: Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage,
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press 1998.
LaCapra, Dominick: History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory, Ithaca, N.Y.:
Cornell University Press 2004.
Munslow, Alun: Deconstructing History, London & New York: Routledge 1997.
--------: The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies, London & New York: Routledge
2000 (2002).
--------: The New History, Harlow: Pearson Education Ltd. 2003.
Nordin, Svante: Humaniora i Sverige: framvxt, gullder, kris, Stockholm: Atlantis 2008.
Simonsen, Dorthe Gert, Tegnets tid. Fortid, historie og historicitet efter den sproglige
vending, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanums Forlag 2003.
Southgate, Beverly: What Is History For? London & New York: Routledge 2005.
Thompson, Willie: Postmodernism and History, Houndsmill: Palgrave Macmillan 2004.
Veeser, H. Aram (ed.): The New Historicism Reader, London: Routledge 1994.
White, Hayden: Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism, Baltimore & London:
Johns Hopkins University Press 1978.