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  • GER 241: German Literature of the Twentieth Century I

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    A study of German literature and society from 1890 through 1933, with emphasis on the aesthetic and sociohistorical underpinnings of Naturalism, Impressionism, Expressionism, and selected works of Mann, Kafka, and Brecht. Prerequisite(s): German 234. Open to first-year students. [W2] C. Decker.
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  • GER 242: German Literature and Film of the Twentieth Century II

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    A continuation of German 241, focusing on post-World War II literature and emphasizing such authors as B ll, Brecht, Frisch, Dürrenmatt, Bachmann, and Wolf. Attention is given to contemporary women writers and poets whose works center on utopian visions and the search for peace. Prerequisite(s): German 234. Staff.
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  • GER 243: Introduction to German Poetry

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    A study of poetry in German-speaking countries since 1800. The course focuses on four or five well-known poets, to be chosen from among the following: H lderin, Novalis, M rike, Heine, Droste-Hülshoff, Rilke, Trakl, Brecht, Celan, and Bachmann. Attention is also given to the poetry of Lasker-Schüler, Kolmar, Bobrowski, Lavant, Enzensberger, and Kirsch. Students make oral presentations and write short interpretations or translations of poems. Prerequisite(s): German 234. Open to first-year students. G. Neu-Sokol.
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  • GER 244: Staged Marriages

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    A study of major issues in German dramaturgy from the Enlightenment to the present, explored through texts that dramatize problems relating to marriage. Authors include Lessing, Büchner, Brecht, and Horváth. Prerequisite(s): German 234. Open to first-year students. [W2] C. Decker.
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  • GER 254: Berlin and Vienna,1900-1914

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    From the beginning of the twentieth century to the outbreak of World War I, the capital cities of Berlin and Vienna were home to major political and cultural developments, including diverse modernist movements in art, architecture, literature, and music, as well as the growth of mass party politics. The ascending German Empire and the multiethnic Habsburg Empire teetering on the verge of collapse provide the context within which this course examines important texts of fin-de-siècle modernism. Topics include urban growth and planning, German Expressionism, Austrian Impressionism, early German cinema, and Freud's case studies of hysteria. Conducted in English. Open to first-year students. C. Decker.
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  • GER 270: Living with the Nazi Legacy

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    A study of contemporary works from Austria and Germany that articulate the experiences of children of Nazis. Texts, which include autobiographical writings, novels, films, interviews, and essays, are analyzed in terms of their representation of the Nazi past and its continuing impact on the present. Prerequisite(s): German 234. [W2] C. Decker.
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  • GER 290: Nietzsche,Kafka,Goethe

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    These three writers demarcate significant milestones on the road to modernity and beyond. Their ideas permeate even today's popular language: "Faustian" man, Nietzschean will to power, the "death of God," Kafkaesque. With these writers as guides, this course undertakes a critical investigation of some of the way stations of modernity: the autonomy of the individual (Goethe); radical horizontality as a response to the crisis of culture (Nietzsche); dispossession and rootlessness, anonymity and the search for community as the fundamental characteristics of our age (Kafka). Class discussions are conducted in English; students may read texts either in German or in English translation. Recommended background: one course in literature, history, or philosophy. Open to first-year students. [W2] D. Sweet.
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  • GER 301: The Enlightenment in Germany

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    The Enlightenment was a formative force of modernity. Its adherents promulgated tolerance and universality, new forms of education, and social utopias. This course is an interdisciplinary investigation of the movements, protagonists, and ideas of the Enlightenment in Germany and includes a postscript to the project of enlightenment at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Readings by Kant and Goethe, Lessing and Mendelssohn, Wieland and Herder. Contemporary writers include Horkheimer,Adorno, and Foucault. Prerequisite(s): one 200-level literature course taught in German. D. Sweet.
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  • GER 303: German Romanticism

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    Profoundly affected by the French Revolution, Germany's young generation sought to create a philosophical literature (German Romanticism) to reform human consciousness. To achieve this, they posited new forms for sexuality and gender relations and sought to renew spirituality and consciousness of the supernatural. This course examines key philosophical and literary writings by the early German Romantics, including Schlegel, Novalis, Wackenroder, and Tieck. Prerequisite(s): one 200-level literature course taught in German. D. Sweet.
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  • GER 310: No Certainties:Film and Literature in Germany Today

    3.00 Credits
    Bates College

    Germany faces unprecedented challenges. Despite reunification - now in its second decade - Germany remains profoundly divided. At the same time the new realities of a post-Wall "new Europe" confront Germany with questions of immigration, multiculturalism, and assimilation more urgently than ever. Social dislocation is widespread. Environmental issues play an increasing role. What have been the responses of the philosophers and poets, novelists and filmmakers How does culture address the contemporary world Prerequisite(s): one 200-level literature course taught in German. D. Sweet.
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