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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
What do fairy tales do? More than children's entertainment, they instruct, amuse, warn, initiate, and enlighten. Throughout history, they have functioned to humanize and conquer the bestial and barbaric forces that terrorize us. They have also disguised social anxieties about gender and sex. The history and social function of fairy tales will be explored in the context of eighteenth- through twentieth-century Germany. Texts will include selections from the Grimms' Hausmärchen, as well as the literature of the Romantic, Weimar, and Post-War Periods. Readings in German and English. Discussion and written work in German.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Alexander Kluge, decorated with virtually every prize a writer, movie director and TV producer can receive in Germany, has always been a political author focused on the history and fate of Germany. His extensive and wide-ranging body of work can be considered as one vast library devoted to this topic. Drawing on this multi-media collection the seminar will read stories, films, television-programs and theoretical texts to develop a sense of just what Kluge's Germany looks like.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Seminar addresses significance of works of art, and of practices of writing about visual art, in the work of three great writers of German in the early 20th-century: poet Rainer Maria Rilke; founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud; and philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin. Emphasis on close reading and critical analysis. Readings drawn from variety of fields and genres, including: lyric poetry, experimental prose, psychoanalytic theory, cultural analysis, aesthetic theory, criticism. Topics include: situation of work of art in modernity; art and the unconscious; the work of art and the historical transmission of culture in modern Europe.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Readings and discussion in classroom application of SLA theory. Focus on quantitative as well as interpretive analysis. Primary audience is the current teaching staff of GER 101, but others are welcome. In English.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Introduction to Middle High German language and literature 1100-1300. Selections from Arthurian romance (Parzival, Tristan), epic (Nibelungenlied), lyric poetry (Minnesang), and mysticism (Meister Eckhart, Mechthild von Magdeburg). Additional readings on history and culture also examined.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Aphoristic collections occupy a prominent place in the canon of German literature. One could argue that there were in fact two "Golden Ages" of the aphorism genre. In the first, around 1800, writers such as Lichtenberg, Goethe, or Klinger took an old tradition to a new height. In the second, around 1900, Nietzsche, Kafka, and Kraus wrote world literature in the form of German aphorism. The seminar will be organized as a historical and systematic survey of the genre within German literary history. Close readings will be informed by excursions into the poetics and theory of the aphorism.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A seminar in media theory taking up Orwell's master trope of distopic futurity, which explores the paranoid logic of surveillance in its literary, architectural and, above all, technological (photographic, cinematic, digital) manifestations in order to unpack a category that is at once a political tactic, a narrative strategy, a theory of the subject, an architectural model, a mode of spectatorship and, quite possibly, the paradigmatic epistemology of the cinematic medium.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A survey of classical and contemporary film theoretical texts and debates that will examine, among others, issues of narration, medium specificity, realism, photogénie, suture, montage, film language, and apparatus theory. Close readings of texts by filmmakers (Deren, Bresson, Pasolini, Brakhage) and theorists (Lukács, Panofsky, Münsterberg, Kracauer, Balázs, Eisenstein, Vertov, Bazin, Benjamin, Cavell, Metz, and Deleuze) will be confronted with what could be called theoretical films ranging from Eisenstein's project to film Das Kapital, essay films by Marker and Farocki, and Debord's film of his theoretical opus La Société du Spectacle.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
And exploration of Hannah Arendt's thinking and writing from the perspective of various disciplines (literature, philosophy, political theory), languages (German, English), and cultures (Jewish, German, American).
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A survey of the history of autobiography as a genre. Course focusses on the different forms, patterns, techniques, and technologies exhibited by the texts. To gain access to a vast and (almost) over-researched field, participants will consult theory and practice close reading.
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