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Course Criteria
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Selling souls to the Devil, from England's Christopher Marlowe to Germany's Goethe and beyond. Wrestling with the problem of evil, and getting past it, to the problems of knowledge, experience, and redemption, exploring why the Faust story keeps on being retold. Readings and discussion in English. Instructor: Morton
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An exploration of the legend of the Once and Future King, Arthur of Camelot: its roots in Latin chronicles, developments in the Middle Ages, and modern representations in literature and film. Arthurian romance as the vehicle of ideas and ideals about utopia, charismatic leadership, love, and betrayal. Tracing the ways a myth is created, employed and transmitted over centuries by means of textual and historical analysis. Taught in English. Instructor: Rasmussen
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German fairy tales of the Romantic era, including both the "literary fairy tales" by known authors and the "folk fairy tales" commonly deemed children's literature. Comparisons to other fairy tale traditions, notably by Perrault and Basile, providing a broader context and perspective. Comparison to the Disney contributions elucidating our own preconceptions and prejudices. Special attention to the literary, feminist, and historical elements of the fairy tale genre. Taught in English. Instructor: Norberg
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Nineteenth and early twentieth-century fiction, philosophy, and film as these formalize the psychological effects of historical change. This course satisfies the Area II requirement for English majors. Instructor: staff.
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The literature and film of crime and detection in the American, British, and German context. An examination of our fascination with stories about violence and death, as well as the connections between modern social history and narrative form. Includes interpretations of central works in crime fiction history: stories by Poe and Schiller, detective novels by Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, the thrillers of Fritz Lang, and postmodern tales by Eco, Auster, and Süskind. Taught in English. Instructor: Donahue
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An exploration of the concept of secularization as the key-concept driving European modernity, with focus on the period from the Enlightenment to the early 20th century; readings to be selected from literary, sociological, philosophical, political, and theological writings; authors may include some of the following: Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Blake, Goethe, Coleridge, Kierkegaard, J. H. Newman, Flaubert, G. Eliot, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, M. Weber, Durkheim. Original research projects to explore with primary and secondary materials. Instructor: Pfau
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Introduction to German intellectual traditions that have proven highly influential both within Europe and beyond. Readings typically include Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn, Kant, Goethe, Humboldt, Hegel, Heine, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Benjamin. Readings and discussions in English. Instructor: Pfau
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Philosophical and literary engagements with fundamental issues of individuality, authenticity, absurdity, finitude, and commitment. Readings primarily from the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century: Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Rilke, Kafka, Hesse, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus. Taught in English. Instructor: Morton
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Distinctively cinematic engagements with principal themes in the existentialist tradition: isolation and alienation, identity and commitment, perception and reality, communication and contact, madness and sanity. In-depth exploration of culturally specific filmic modes of capturing, processing, and transmitting images of human life and the myriad issues, moral conflicts, and dilemmas that inform it. Films to be considered will vary with different offerings of the course, but may include works of directors such as Herzog, Schloendorff, Fassbinder, Wenders, Bergman, Antonioni, Kurosawa, and Godard, among others. Instructor: Morton
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A critical examination and assessment of the thought of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud: revolutionary theory and practice; nihilism and the challenge of overcoming it; the hidden foundations of the self and of culture. Instructor: Morton
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