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4.00 Credits
Survey of major poets in the German language from classicism to modernism and postmodernism, paying attention to the transition from traditional verse to avant garde forms. Readings from Goethe, Heine, Rilke, Celan, Bachmann. Relevant areas of literary theory will be included. - E. Grimm Prerequisites: GERM V1202, the equivalent, or sophomore standing. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). 4 points
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3.00 Credits
Examination of migration and the nomadic experience in the 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasis on the comprehension and construction of the "other" culture by travelers and migrants in fictional texts; and on questions of orientalism, colonialism, and multiculturalism. Texts by Chamisso, Heine, Seghers, Th. Mann, ren, Atabay, Deleuze, Said, and Sassen. - E. Grimm Prerequisites: GERM V1202, Sophomore standing or the equivalent or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Discusses the profound influence of photography on modern literature and intellectual debates in the 20th century. Emphasis on creative and critical responses to documentary and aesthetic traditions of this visual medium. Foci are photographic evidence, montage, memory, sensationalism. Authors/Photographers: Benjamin, Rilke, Th. Mann, Tucholsky, Chr. Wolf, Sebald, Sander, Blossfeldt. - E. Grimm General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Supervised research into German literatures and cultures culminating in a critical paper. Regular consultations with the instructor at hours to be arranged. Prerequisites: Open to senior majors. Permission of instructor required. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Survey of screen adaptations of literary texts beginning with Weimar cinema and proceeding through to the present with a particular focus on cinematic modes of narration, spectatorship, and visual pleasure, as well as on the role of institutional frameworks. Readings in neo-Marxist, psychoanalytic and semiotic film theory. Texts by Wedekind, Fontane, H. Mann, and Musil and films by Pabst, Fassbinder, Wenders, and Trotta. [In English, extra sessions for German majors.] Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or the equivalent or permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Examines accounts of traveling or living in South America, Africa, and Germany from a postcolonial and transnational perspective. Discussion of German explorers, colonialism, global tourism, multiculturalism, focusing on the relationship between mobility and the formation of African, Jewish, Turkish bicultural identities in different historical contexts and geographical settings. Close attention to the role of language, ideology, and itinerary in visual, aural, and written records by A.v.Humboldt, Merian, J. Baker, Massaquoi, Wackwitz, Oezdamar, Akin. [In English] - E. Grimm General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). 3 points
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4.00 Credits
Examines accounts of traveling or living in South America, Africa, and Germany from a postcolonial and transnational perspective. Discussion of German explorers, colonialism, global tourism, multiculturalism, focusing on the relationship between mobility and the formation of African, Jewish, Turkish bicultural identities in different historical contexts and geographical settings. Close attention to the role of language, ideology, and itinerary in visual, aural, and written records by A.v.Humboldt, Merian, J. Baker, Massaquoi, Wackwitz, Oezdamar, Akin. - E. Grimm General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). 4 points
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3.00 Credits
Examines the transition from Viennese Modernism to Expressionism and Dada. Topics include: the emergence of the modern psyche, the play of word and image, and the relationship between ecstatic experience and social unrest. Texts by Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, D blin, Kafka, Freud, and Salomé. Film and montage by Hannah H ch, and others. [In English.] General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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4.00 Credits
Examines the transition from Viennese Modernism to Expressionism and Dada. Topics include the emergence of the modern psyche, the play of word and image, and the relationship between ecstatic experience and social unrest. Texts by Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, D blin, Kafka, Freud, and Salome. Film and montage by Richter, H ch, and Hausmann. The same course as BC3232 (in English), with weekly discussion sections for majors. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
Grammar, composition, and reading. Prerequisites: GREK V1101 is prerequisite to GREK V1102. No credit is given for GERK V1101 unless GREK V1102 is completed. 4 points
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