Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2021
Day/Time
This course is not being offered during the current academic year.
Instructor
Burgard
Close reading of poems by Klopstock, Goethe, Hölderlin, Brentano, Eichendorff, Droste-Hülshoff, Heine, Mörike, Hofmannsthal, George, Rilke, Trakl, Lasker-Schüler, Brecht, Benn, Eich, Bachmann, Enzensberger, Celan, Jandl, Kirsch, Brinkmann, and Kling. While the course focuses entirely on the close reading of outstanding texts in the German literary tradition, ancillary reading situates these texts in the history of German culture.