Day/Time

W 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Instructor

Carranza

This seminar will be centered on a close reading of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre with glimpses at select excerpts from the sequel, Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre. We will also take the opportunity of this engagement with two very different narratives to review the fundamental principles of narratological analysis. Some attention will be paid to the centrality of these works (especially the Lehrjahre) in the modern theory of the novel from Moritz and Fr. Schlegel to Lukacs and  Blumenberg. Paradigmatic contributions to the scholarship produced during the past four decades (e.g., psychoanalysis, discourse analysis, rhetorical-deconstructive readings) will be discussed in each session. In this regard, the seminar offers a compact introduction to recent theoretical trends.