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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
University of Massachusetts Amherst has not provided a description for this course
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
Conducted in English. The fame of the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) rests on the fame of some of his 166 tales and stories. Yet these tales comprise only a very small portion of his overall oeuvre, which includes six novels, several hundred poems, nearly forty works for the stage, five travel books, and two autobiographies. We will begin this class by examining some of his popular tales. During the course of the semester we will also read and discuss his novels The Improvisatore (1835) and The Two Baronesses (1848), a selection of Andersen's poems, and one of his plays ("The Moorish Girl").
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3.00 Credits
Readings (in translation) of selected Old Icelandic sagas, whose content and energized style emerged during the first European expansion toward the west. These early "westerns" are excitingly told and will be discussed as regards the stories themselves and in their historical and cultural framework. Conducted in English (Gen. Ed. AL)
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4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary course exploring the impact of 19th century romantic imagination and historical consciousness on the development of a 'Nordic ideal', which would have disastrous political consequences in the 20th century. The course focuses on the Scandinavian countries, using literature, art, philosophy, and music to trace the development of a modern national ideal. Nostalgic elements include the idealization of the Vikings, historic preservation movements, and native folklore, evolving by the early 20th century into nature-worship, Vitalism, and reactions against Decadence such as polar expeditions, the cult of masculinity, and Modernism. Source material includes readings by Ibsen, Strindberg, Hamsun; promotion of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche by Danish critic Georg Brandes, visual art by Munch and Gallen-Kallela; music by Grieg and Sibelius. (Gen.Ed. AT)
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3.00 Credits
Scandinavian literature and film have always reflected on the impact of violence and chaos in human affairs. Today's increasingly multicultureal communities complicate their reflections in unprecedented ways.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
University of Massachusetts Amherst has not provided a description for this course
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3.00 Credits
The satirical tradition in Scandinavian literature has a long and colorful history, nowhere more so than in Denmark. The rise of the Scandinavian welfare state over the last 100 years has done nothing to diminish the ardor with which authors take gleeful aim at what they perceive to be the failings and the burdens of governmental bureaucracy. In this class we will sample the writings of several of the most representative of the authors who delight in skewering society?s shortcomings, among them Hans Scherfig, Leif Panduro, and Knut Hamsun. There are no prerequisites. Conducted in English.
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3.00 Credits
Norway's Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) and Sweden's August Strindberg (1849-1912) were modern Scandinavia?s most important dramatists. Ibsen's realistic social dramas influenced writers like Gerhard Hauptmann, G. B. Shaw, and Arthur Miller, and Strindberg's innovative (often surreal) dramas exerted a major influence on both naturalistic and expressionistic theater. Together, the legacy of Ibsen and Strindberg continues to resonate on stages around the world. In this course we will read a representative sampling of works by each author (including Ibsen's Peer Gynt, A Doll's House, and Ghosts and Strindberg's The Father, Miss Julie, and A Dream Play). All readings and discussions will be in English. There are no prerequisites.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
University of Massachusetts Amherst has not provided a description for this course
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