IAS 422 - Europe, an Imagined Community: Essays on Identity since 1750: Literature, Thought, Art and Politics

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Washington University in St Louis

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Nation states and their cultures have been changed by globalization. Within this process, continentalization has played an important role. The European Union is only half a century old, but continental unity has been discussed and demanded by European writers and thinkers for hundreds of years. We read essays on Europe (its identity, its cultural diversity, and its cultural roots, contemporary problems, and future goals) by writers such as Coleridge, Madame de Staël, Novalis, Chateaubriand, Heine, Nerval, Hugo, Thomas Mann, Ernst Jünger, T.S. Eliot, Klaus Mann, de Madariaga, Kundera, Enzensberger, Frischmuth, and Drakulic; we discuss studies reinventing Europe by philosophers such as the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Ortega y Gasset; we deal with the mythological figure of Europa and her resurrections in the world of art; we study the Nazarene painters of the early 19th century in Rome and discuss portraits of Bonaparte by French painters of the time. Comparative Literature students meet with the instructor for an additional two hours per month.

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3.00

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www.wustl.edu

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(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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