Day/Time

T 12:00PM - 2:00PM

Instructor

Dymek

Close reading of stories by Schiller, Tieck, Kleist, Hoffmann, Droste-Hülshoff, Stifter, Storm, Döblin, Kafka, Musil, Mann, Aichinger, and Bachmann. While the course focuses virtually entirely on the close reading of outstanding texts in the German literary tradition, there will be ancillary reading to help students situate these texts in the history of German culture.

Day/Time

TBA

Instructor

Carranza

A survey course on major works in German literature, philosophy, and critique from the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth century. Close reading of representative texts opens onto broader ramifications in cultural and intellectual history with further consideration of societal and political tensions. Periods and themes covered include the Enlightenment and the rise of the Bourgeoisie, Romanticism, Idealism, and the Problem of Identity, Realism and Nationhood, Language and Political crises, and the guilt...

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Day/Time

M 12:45PM – 2:45 PM

Instructor

Carranza

The brilliantly witty German physicist and satirical author Georg Christoph Lichtenberg once remarked that "The American who first discovered Columbus made a horrible discovery" ("Der Amerikaner, der den Kolumbus... Read more about German 199. Freedom: A Transatlantic Affair

Day/Time

T 12:00–2:45pm

Instructor

Sütterlin and Sommer

To explore key literary, cultural and critical theories, we pose questions through readings of classic and contemporary theorists, from Aristotle to Kant, Schiller, Arendt, Barthes,...

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