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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Every year. Fall 2006. BIRGIT TAUTZ. Designed to explore aspects of German culture in depth, while increasing oral fluency, writing and reading skills, and comprehension. Topics include post-war and/or post-unification themes in historical and cross-cultural contexts. Particular emphasis on post-1990 German youth culture and language. Includes fiction writing, film, music, and various news media. Weekly individual sessions with the Teaching Fellow from the Johannes-Gutenberg- Universit t-Mainz. Prerequisite: Equivalent of German 204.
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3.00 Credits
THE DEPARTMENT.
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3.00 Credits
Every year. Spring 2007. HELEN CAFFERTY. Designed to be an introduction to the critical reading of texts by genre (e.g., prose fiction and nonfiction, lyric poetry, drama, opera, film) in the context of German intellectual, political, and social history. Focuses on various themes and periods. Develops students' sensitivity to generic structures and introduces terminology for describing and analyzing texts in historical and cross-cultural contexts. Weekly individual sessions with the Teaching Fellow from the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universit t-Mainz.
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2007. JILL SMITH. Focus on the mid- to late eighteenth century as an age of contradictory impulses (e.g., the youthful revolt of Storm and Stress against the Age of Reason). Examines manifestations of such impulses - e.g., ghosts, love, and other transgressions - in the works of major (e.g.,Goethe, Schiller) and less well-known authors (e.g., Karsch, Forster). Investigation of texts in their broader cultural context with appropriate theory.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2008. STEVEN CERF. Examines the origins of the German Romantic movement in the first half of the nineteenth century and its impact on German culture (e.g., music and the other arts, philosophy, politics, popular culture, continued legacy of Romanticism in subsequent periods of German culture and literature). Focus on representative authors, genres, and themes such as romantic creativity, genius, horror, and fantasy.
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1.00 Credits
Fall 2006. JILL SMITH. What is revolution What forms has it taken within German-speaking society and culture Examines a variety of literary, cultural, and social texts from 1830 to 1900 in their broader cultural, artistic, philosophical, and political contexts. Beyond discussing the effects (both positive and negative) of the Industrial Revolution, discusses three other forms of revolution that emerge in nineteenth-century German discourse: 1) political revolution (the formation of German national identity; the rise of the socialist movement); 2) artistic revolution (the search for an artistic direction at the end of the Age of Goethe; the tensions between social realism and romanticism); 3) sexual revolution (scientific interest in "normal" vs. "abnormal" sexubehavior; the advent of the women's movement and the questioning of gender roles). Authors/ artists may include Heine, Büchner, Hebbel, Hauptmann, Andreas-Salomé, Fontane, Wagner,Marx & Engels, Bebel, Simmel, Kollwitz, Krafft-Ebing.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. JILL SMITH. Texts by the following German-language modernists are read and analyzed in historical, social, and literary contexts: Kafka, Rilke, Musil, Thomas Mann, Brecht, and Keun. Discusses the extent to which these writers were influenced by Nietzschean, Marxian, and Freudian thought, how and why literary modernism is rooted in urban settings, what narrative modes are used to deal with the interiority of modernist protagonists, and how and why modernism became politicized during the Weimar Republic, as writers witnessed and sought to respond to the rise of Fascism. Relevant films and other contemporary artistic and musical works are considered throughout the semester.
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. HELEN CAFFERTY. An exploration of how successive generations have expressed their relationship to the catastrophe of the Nazi past. Examines representative texts of East and West German writers/ filmmakers in Cold War and post-unification contexts. A discussion of "Germanness" andGerman identity from several perspectives, including Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit, the influence of the United States and the Soviet Union, the cultural significance of the American West and American popular culture, gender in the two Germanys, terrorism, and African- German and Turkish-German voices. Grass, B ll, Wolf, Müller, D rrie, Fassbinder, Brussig, Ayim, Schlink, among others.
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2008. HELEN CAFFERTY. Examines the texts and traditions unique to East German culture and identity. Areas of exploration include the historical, political, and social context; the evolution of socialist art and its legacy; socialist interpretations of myth and history; failed revolution; coming of age themes; the socialist fairy tale. Also explores pre- and post-unification discourses on gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and East German identity. Authors/directors may include Brecht, Müller, Wolf, Kohlhaase, Emersleben, Biermann, Braun, Misselwitz, Beyer, Dresen.
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3.00 Credits
Every spring. THE DEPARTMENT. Work in a specific area of German literature not covered in other departmental courses, e.g., individual authors, literary movements, genres, cultural influences, and historical periods. This course may be repeated for credit with the contents changed.
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