GERMAN 365 - City,Space,Memory

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Reed College

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Description:

Full course for one semester. At the advent of the 20th century, the metropolitan city emerged as a new network of signification generating a rethinking of the trajectories of time and space. We will explore the transcription of urban space as a new site of knowledge in experimental literary forms. The spatialization of memory and history will be a major focus. City narratives from German modernity include Rilke's novel The Notebooks of Malte Lauridds Brigge, Benjamin' s Berlin Chronicl e an d Arcades Project , and essays by Simmel and Krakauer. We will also explore contemporary readings representing space as the container of traumatic memory (Sebald, Austerlitz), nostalgia (Pamuk, Istanbul), and "subaltern counter publics" (postcolonialism). Theories on memory are examined through Freud, Bergson, and Ricoeur. Students taking the course for German credit will have an extra weekly seminar. Prerequisite: German 220 or consent of the instructor. Conference. Cross-listed as Literature 365. Not offered 2009-10.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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