German 298 - Kafka and the Kafkaesque

Institution:

Wheaton College - Massachusetts

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Description:

This course examines Kafka's life and major works in the historical and social context of early-20thcentury Central Europe. Central themes are: generational conflicts, the function of humor and parody in his writings, modernity in and as crisis, the figure of the outsider as well as the "foreign,"the eccentric, the illogical, the uncanny-the Kafkaesque. Several film adaptations that attempt to visualize Kafka's imaginative depths will also be studied. (Tessa Lee)

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wheatoncollege.edu

Phone Number:

(508) 285-7722

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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