printer friendly pageGERLIT 369: Introduction to Graduate Studies: Criticism as Profession (COMPLIT 369, FRENGEN 369, ITALGEN 369)
Major texts of modern literary criticism in the context of professional scholarship today. Readings of critics such as Lukács, Auerbach, Frye, Ong, Benjamin, Adorno, Szondi, de Man, Abrams, Bourdieu, Vendler, and Said. Contemporary professional issues including scholarly associations, journals, national and comparative literatures, university structures, and career paths.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
GERLIT 399: Independent Study
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-15
| Repeatable
for credit
GERLIT 400: Dissertation Research
For graduate students in German working on dissertations only.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
;
Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)
;
Daub, A. (PI)
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Berman, R. (PI)
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Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)
;
Daub, A. (PI)
;
Dornbach, M. (PI)
;
Douvaldzi, C. (PI)
;
Eshel, A. (PI)
;
Robinson, O. (PI)
GERLIT 802: TGR Dissertation
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
;
Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)
;
Daub, A. (PI)
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Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
;
Bernhardt-Kamil, E. (PI)
;
Daub, A. (PI)
;
Dornbach, M. (PI)
;
Douvaldzi, C. (PI)
;
Eshel, A. (PI)
;
Robinson, O. (PI)
GERLIT 121: THE VIENNESE COFFEEHOUSE
This seminar examines the cultural and literary significance of fin de siécle Vienna¿s most enduring symbol: the Coffeehouse. What was the function of the café in aesthetic, literary and political debates central to Vienna at the turn of the century? How did coffeehouse and newspaper culture influence developments in modernist prose? Texts by Hermann Bahr, Arthur Schnitzler, Karl Kraus, Peter Altenberg, Felix Salten, Sigmund Freud, Egon Friedell and Alfred Polgar, in English translation, original German texts available upon request.
GERLIT 127: Uncanny Literature in the Nineteenth Century
From ghost children and animated statues, the walking dead to machine women and doppelgangers, 19th-century German literature teems with things that go bump in the night. The history of this tradition of fantastic literature in Germany, its origins, main authors, and defining features. Authors include E.T.A. Hoffmann, Wilhelm Hauff, Friedrich Schiller, Joseph von Eichendorff and Jeremias Gotthelf. Readings and writing in German.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
GERLIT 130: Brecht and Modern Aesthetics
Bertolt Brecht's poetic and dramatic works, and analysis of his contribution to modern paradigms of poetic and dramatic practice. Readings in German include poetry, dramas such as
Baal, Im Dickicht der Staedte, Die Dreigroschenoper, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, and theoretical writings on lyric poetry and drama.
GERLIT 131A: Immigrant/Minority Literature and the Emergence of Multiculturalism in Germany
Immigrant culture and literature in Germany across genres, including stories, drama, memoirs, and film. What do immigrants in Germany write about? What role does immigrant literary culture play in the formation of notions of cultural difference and dialogue? How do the dynamics of ethnic and cultural diversity influence concepts and notions of culture and nationhood in Germany?
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
GERLIT 133Q: Modernism and Fiction
Preference to sophomores. Innovative ideas and narrative forms in German modernism. International and specifically German features. Problems of narration. Texts such as Musil's
Törless, Mann's
Tod in Venedig, Kafka's
Die Verwandlung, and Broch's
Pasenow. Close reading technique. Prerequisite: reading knowledge of German.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
GERLIT 136: Berlin Topographies in the 20th Century
Development of Berlin¿s spatial imaginaries from the boulevards of the late 19th century to the Weimar Republic's urban agendas, and to the repeated reconstructions by the Nazis, the GDR and Berlin Republic. Sources: Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Berthold Brecht, Peter Weiss, Mascha Kaleko, Peter Schneider, Blixa Bargeld, Wolf Biermann, Christoph Hein, Monika Maron, Thomas Hettche, and Wim Wenders. In German.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
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