GERLIT 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.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
GERLIT 118: Introduction to the Germanic Languages (GERLIT 218)
A comparative survey of the seven oldest Germanic languages (Gothic, Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Low Franconian, Old High German). Lectures on comparative linguistics, runology, old Germanic poetry, historical syntax and more.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Robinson, O. (PI)
GERLIT 120: Law, Justice, and the Literary Imagination
Have law and poetry "risen from the same bed," as Jakob Grimm suggested in his essay "Von der Poesie im Recht"? Are there intrinsic connections between the legal and the literary? We will explore the ways in which narrative and drama articulate the relationship between law and justice, and represent the crises of the legal system. The course aims at enhancing reading fluency and textual analysis skills. Readings include texts by Schiller, Kleist, Kafka, Wedekind, and Brecht. Taught in German.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Douvaldzi, C. (PI)
GERLIT 123N: The Brothers Grimm and Their Fairy Tales
Historical, biographical, linguistic, and literary look at the Kinder- and Hausmarchen of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Readings from the fairy tales, plus materials in other media such as film and the visual arts. Four short essays, one or two oral reports. In German.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Robinson, O. (PI)
GERLIT 124: Introduction to German Poetry
Introduction to the reading and interpretation of lyrical poetry from the 18th century to present. 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 2010
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Daub, A. (PI)
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Cammin, R. (PI)
GERLIT 132: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
A study of literary movements in their philosophical and historical contexts. Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism. What changes defined German culture between the age of Napoleon to the eve of the First World War? How did Germany become a unified nation? The influence of thinkers such as Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. Taught in German.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Berman, R. (PI)
GERLIT 133: Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature and Culture
This course is designed to provide students with a representative overview of German literature, film and music from World War I to the early twenty-first century. It draws on major texts from many of the twentieth century's great literary and artistic movements, from Expressionism and New Objectivity, via the Gruppe 47 to pop art and postmodernism. In keeping with German Studies Department's new pilot program, this course will be taught in English and in German - particular periods or literary or cultural movements will be discussed in English, while individual text will be discussed (and read) entirely in German. German language proficiency is therefore assumed, as is some familiarity with the rough outlines of German history in the 20th century.
Last offered: Spring 2011
GERLIT 134: Freud's Vienna
This course explores the intersections between literature, art, politics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy in turn of the century Vienna. Works by Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, Bahr, Musil, Roth, Kraus, and Freud; shorter selections from Brentano, Herzl, Kraft-Ebbing, Loos, Mach, and Wittgenstein. (Replaces
GerLit 133 for 2011/12)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Douvaldzi, C. (PI)
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