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3.00 Credits
Ansgar Mohnkern. mw1-2.15 Hu (0) Tr The relationship between art and subjectivity in German literary texts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Readings from Kant's first and third Critiques, as well as works by Goethe, H?lderlin, Eichendorff, Brentano, Heine, and Büchner.
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3.00 Credits
Cyrus Hamlin. tth1-2.15 Hu (0) Tr Survey of the novella as a narrative form from Goethe to Thomas Mann. Emphasis on narrative technique and the development of literature from romanticism through realism to modernism. Additional authors include Kleist, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Eichendorff, Büchner, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Gotthelf, M?rike, Keller, C. F. Meyer, Storm, and Fontane . Readings and discussion in English; texts available in German.
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3.00 Credits
Paul North. For description see under German Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Rüdiger Campe. th 3.30-5.20 Hu (0) Tr Study of narrative texts from the era of classical probabilistic philosophies. The history of probabilistic thinking and contemporary debates on risk and risk taking; contingency as a basic element of narration. Works by Defoe, Wieland, Voltaire, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, E. T A. Hoffmann, Poe, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Rüdiger Campe. w 3.30-5.20 Hu (0) Tr Exploration of triangular communication models, in which one person speaks on behalf of another person before a third party. Communication in law (advocacy), religion (intercession), and politics (representation). Readings from ancient rhetoric, Jewish and Christian religious texts, and modern social and literary theory, as well as paradigmatic works by Kafka, Canetti, and Celan, and selected scenes from ancient and modern drama.
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3.00 Credits
Rüdiger Campe. t 1.30-3.20 Hu (0) Tr Theories of passion from Descartes and Hobbes to Baumgarten, Burke, and Kant. The relationship between passion and literary representation from Shakespeare and Racine to Richardson and Goethe. Theoretical questions concerning psychology, epistemology, aesthetics, and anthropology. Theatrical performance of passion in the seventeenth century; narrative representation in the eighteenth century.
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3.00 Credits
Rainer N?gele. th 1.30-3.20 Hu (0) Transformation of the classical Greek elegy form in modern times by Goethe, H?lderlin, and Rilke. Discussion in English; texts in German and in English translation. Prerequisite: basic reading knowledge of German.
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3.00 Credits
Carol Jacobs. For description see under German Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Henry Sussman. t 3.30-5.20 (0) Tr Franz Kafka's writings viewed as a site for the radical questioning and dislocation of Western systems, institutions, and mores of the early twentieth century. Attention to the shorter fiction, the novels, the letters, and their strategic interrelations; examination of the fields of knowledge, ideological presumptions, and aesthetic and cultural experiments that Kafka touched, and to some degree deranged, with his writing. gman 406b/ film 410b/ litr 350b, Theatricality in Film. BrigittePeucker. For description see under Film Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Kirk Wetters. m 3.30-5.20 Hu (0) Study of major Austrian novels written after the influential modernist works of Musil, Canetti, and Broch. Focus on Heimito von Doderer's Die Strudlhofstiege, Ingeborg Bachmann' s Malina , and Thomas Bernhard? ? Ausl?schung Reading knowledge in German required
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