printer friendly pageGERLIT 16N: Music, Myth, and Modernity: Wagner's Ring Cycle and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (MUSIC 16N)
Preference to freshmen. Roots of Wagner's operatic cycle and Tolkien's epic trilogy in a common core of Norse, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon mythology. The role of musical motive and characterization in Wagner's music dramas and the film version of Tolkien's trilogy. Music as a key element in the psychological, political, and cultural revision of ancient myth in modern opera and film.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Grey, T. (PI)
GERLIT 120Q: Is God Dead? (COMPLIT 50Q)
A consideration of Nietzsche's claim that God is dead in relation to other texts of German literature and philosophy. The status of religious faith in relation to modernity and secularization; religion and science; culture and faith. Readings in German include selections from sacred and liturgical texts; fictional depictions of religious experience; religion in poetry; German theories of religion. Authors to be studied include Rilke, Hesse, Weiss, Schöder, Buber, Sachs, Haecker, Weber, Taubes, Ratzinger.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
GERLIT 123N: The Brothers Grimm and Their Fairy Tales
Preference to freshmen. Historical, biographical, linguistic, and literary look at the
Kinder- and
Hausmärchen of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Readings from the fairy tales, plus materials in other media such as film and the visual arts. Small group performances of dramatized fairy tales. In German. Prerequisite:
GERLANG 3 or equivalent.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Robinson, O. (PI)
GERLIT 127A: The German Ballad
This course charts the history of the German ballad, from Goethe and Schiller, to Romantic and Realist poets - additional reading will attempt to contextualize the German ballad in the European context. Musical ballads and song arrangements will also be considered.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Daub, A. (PI)
GERLIT 129: The German Novella
Authors such as Kleist, Eichendorff, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Goethe, Keller, Fontane, and Thomas Mann. Focus is on structural-textual elements such as event, situation, conflict, symbol, and turning point as well as questions concerning order, chaos, contingency, the relation between fiction and reality, and ostracism. Readings in German include novellas such as
Das Erdbeben in Chili, Das Marmorbild, Mario und der Zauberer, Traumnovelle, Die Taube, Im Krebsgang.
GERLIT 131: Goethe: Poetic Vision and Vocation in the Age of Reason
Introduction to Goethe¿s major works, reading across genres of poetry, drama, the novel, and autobiography; critical writings on art, nature, and aesthetics. Central trends in Goethe¿s thought; the interrelatedness of poetic vision and philosophical thinking in his works. Goethe in relation to other intellectual and philosophical movements of the period, including romanticism.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
GERLIT 131B: German Lyric and the Oriental Tradition
German lyric and Oriental models: German poets¿ encounter with Persian and Arab literary culture; adaptation and transformation of poetic forms and stories; theories of lyric. Readings include poets such as Goethe (West-oestlicher Divan), Rueckert (Oestliche Rosen), Platen (Ghaselen), and Heine (selected poems) as well as Hafiz (selected poems in German translation). The course will focus on the development of informed reading skills through close analysis of poems and will explore the idea of lyric poetry as a trans-cultural and trans-national phenomenon as well as lyric¿s relationship to music both in the context of Germany and the Orient.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
GERLIT 135: Outsiders and Outcasts: introduction to German Prose Fiction
Close reading and discussion of literary works by Hebel, Tieck, Kleist, Hoffmann, Heine, Keller, Storm, R. Walser, and Kafka. Attention paid to writers' divergent responses to the artistic, ethical, and political challenges of modernity. Readings, discussion, and writing assignments in German; length of assignments adjusted to students' linguistic competence. Prerequisite: German language sequence at Stanford or equivalent.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Dornbach, M. (PI)
GERLIT 137: Introduction to German Poetry
Major poets writing in German including Gryphius, Goethe, Hölderlin, Novalis, Eichendorff, Heine, Rilke, Lasker-Schüler, Trakl, Benn, Celan, Brecht, Enzensberger, and Falkner. Close reading technique. Interpretive tools and theoretical concepts. Poetic form, voice, figural language, and the interaction of sensory registers. In German.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
GERLIT 150C: Postwar German Culture and Thought: 1945 to the Present (GERLIT 250C)
How German culture and thought confronted the legacy of National Socialism, German guilt, and the possibility of a new beginning. German culture and the memory of communism (the German Democratic Republic) after 1989. Fiction of Thomas Mann, Gunter Grass, Alexander Kluge, and Hans Ulrich Treichel; poetry of Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann; philosophical essays of Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Jürgen Habermas; films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Florian Henkel (
The Life of Others), and Oliver Hirschbiegel (
Downfall).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Eshel, A. (PI)
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