GERMAN 417 - German Poetry:Goethe to Celan

Institution:

Bard College

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This course introduces students to the pleasures and challenges of German poetry. Participants read exemplary works by the most important German poets of the last three centuries, including Goethe, Schiller, H?lderlin, Brentano, Heine, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, George, and Celan. While focusing closely on the formal features of each poem (metrical structure, tropes, generic conventions), students explore how the poem engages with the major philosophical shifts and historical catastrophes of the times. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which poets like H?lderlin and Rilke appropriate and transform historical genres (such as the hymn, ode, sonnet, and elegy) by infusing them with their own conceptions of history, subjectivity, and poetic writing. Conducted in German.

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4.00

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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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