GRMN 325 - Politics of the Past:Telling Early Modern Tales to Modern Readers

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University of Pennsylvania

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Wiggin. Prerequisite(s): GRMN 215 or equivalent. Taught in German. In this class we will focus on how literary hi/stories are (re)written, and to what ends. Over the course of the semester, texts from the seventeenth century will be paired alongside a rewrite from the twentieth. Paired readings may include: Martin Opitz (Buch von der deutschen Poeterey) and G_nther Grass (Das Treffen in Telgt), Grimmelshausen (Coursache) and Bertold Brecht (Mutter Courage) and Abraham _ Sancta Clara (Predigten) and Barbara Frischmuth (Die Klosterschule). In our discussions, we will explore a series of related questions: How does the older text resonate within the new How does the newer text comment on the old What are the politics of such dialogues with the distant past

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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