GERMAN 320 - Modern German Short Prose

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

A survey of Novellen, Erz?hlungen, parables, and other short forms of mainly 20th-century prose. Students combine detailed literary analysis with an examination of social/political/historical contexts. Readings include Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Thomas Mann, Robert Walser, Heinrich von Kleist, Jeremias Gotthelf, Walter Benjamin, Hans Erich Nossack, Ingeborg Bachmann, Max Frisch, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Ilse Aichinger, Jenny Erpenbeck, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, and Yoko Tawada. The course is conducted in German. Richard Wagner's cycle of four music dramas about gods, dwarves (Nibelungs), giants, and humans has been read and performed as a manifesto for socialism, a plea for a Nazi-like racialism, a study of the workings of the human psyche, a forecast of the fate of the world and humankind, and a parable about the new industrial society of his time. Students read Heinrich Heine, the Brothers Grimm, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, as well as the anonymous author of the medieval epic, the Nibelungenlied. Musical expertise is neither expected nor provided.

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4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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