Welcome Back! And onto Stefan Zweig.

This is a heads-up that you will need your Stefan Zweig text this week (Tuesday homework). You actually may know Zweig, by way of Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel, which was his homage to Stefan Zweig.  Yet another example of writers today being inspired by the greats of European history.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2014/03/stefan-zweig-wes-anderson-and-longing-for-the-past.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10684250/I-stole-from-Stefan-Zweig-Wes-Anderson-on-the-author-who-inspired-his-latest-movie.html

U.S. Supreme Court to review "free speech" vs. "offensive speech"

View "Ban on Confederate plates at core of free speech case" article at http://eeditionmobile.chicagotribune.com/Olive/Tablet/ChicagoTribune/SharedArticle.aspx?href=CTC%2F2015%2F03%2F24&id=Ar01001 

"Old" Modern Chicago

Chicago saw its first streetcars, elevated trains, and other public transportation in the same period
we are now studying (1871-1914). Fascinating stuff!

http://forgottenchicago.com/features/remnants-of-the-l/

"Dirty Old London: A History of the Victorians' Infamous Filth"

'Dirty Old London': A History Of The Victorians' Infamous Filth

NPR - March 12, 2015

In the 19th century, London was the capital of the largest empire the world had ever known — and it was infamously filthy. It had choking, sooty fogs; the Thames River was thick with human sewage; and the streets were covered with mud....

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/12/392332431/dirty-old-london-a-history-of-the-victorians-infamous-filth?sc=17?f=1008&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app

"Friendship" between, and Assassination of, Abraham Lincoln and Czar Alexander II

Czar Alexander's Assassination

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REEEzdYyuPo

A royal (and radical suffragette) Hari Kumar?

http://m.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/sophia-how-an-indian-princess-became-a-radical-suffragette-20150227-13pqk7.html

European History & Moviemaking

Christopher Nolan repeatedly has referred to the inspiration he drew in writing the Batman trilogy from events in European History, such as repurposing the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, the economic inequality of Gotham, and the nilihistic, terroristic and anarchistic characters of R'as Al Ghul, Joker, and Bane.   These are themes we have explored in sections 45, 56, 57, 61, 66 in Palmer. 

In a similar vein, Graham Moore has said that he first learned of the figure of Alan Turing when he was a student at Lab. He will next take up an important story of Chicago on the eve of the Columbian Exposition, adapting Devil in the White City. 

Perhaps, you too might find narratives that inspire or repulse you in this class that you may harness in your own story-telling.   

Interesting articles
http://www.cliomuse.com/dark-knight-rises.html
http://abc7chicago.com/entertainment/chicagoan-nominated-for-oscar-for-imitation-game/523808/

Finally, think about how views and philosophies have changed throughout the narrative we've woven in this class.  How would you describe the trajectory of this narrative as we reach the end of the 19th century?  More to come when we return from break to "Europe at the Top of Its Game."

Impressionism and the Academies lecture slides and prompt

Please click here to find the presentation on Impressionism and the Academies from Monday, March 2. The prompt appears at the end of the slides.

If you have any questions about the terminology or anything else from the lecture when writing your prompt, please contact me at cochrane.sally(at)gmail.com.