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German 100. Introduction to German Literature and Thought

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024

Day/Time

TBA

Instructor

Carranza

A survey course on major works in German literature, philosophy, and critique from the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth century. Close reading of representative texts opens onto broader ramifications in cultural and intellectual history with further consideration of societal and political tensions. Periods and themes covered include the Enlightenment and the rise of the Bourgeoisie, Romanticism, Idealism, and the Problem of Identity, Realism and Nationhood, Language and Political crises, and the guilt...

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German 119b. Great Works, Short Texts: German Stories

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024

Day/Time

T 12:00PM - 2:00PM

Instructor

Dymek

Close reading of stories by Schiller, Tieck, Kleist, Hoffmann, Droste-Hülshoff, Stifter, Storm, Döblin, Kafka, Musil, Mann, Aichinger, and Bachmann. While the course focuses virtually entirely on the close reading of outstanding texts in the German literary tradition, there will be ancillary reading to help students situate these texts in the history of German culture.

German 145. German and Austrian Modernism: Architecture, Art, Literature

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024

Day/Time

MW 10:30AM - 11:45AM

Instructor

Burgard

Explores the radical break with traditions of thinking, building, seeing, and representing that occurred at the end of the 19th-century in Germany and Austria, and the new forms of architecture, painting, and literature to which this break led over the following 40 years (1890–1930). Topics include, among others, the loss or destruction of coherence in general, more specifically the loss of a sense of a unified self, alienation in the industrial and urban world, the rejection of unified forms...

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German 219. German Poetry

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2024

Day/Time

M 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm

Instructor

Burgard

Close readings of 24 poems representing the best of modern German poetry. Readings in German, discussions in English. All of the poems are short, allowing us to achieve both breadth and depth and allowing those students who can read two pages of sophisticated German carefully each week, but maybe not a drama or a novel, to practice their close reading in German and improve their scholarly German. The chronological progression provides a history of modern...

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