German Studies 360 - SEM: ADV TOPICS IN GER STUDIES

Each topic focuses on a particular literary epoch, movement, genre or author from German literary culture. All sections taught in German. In this course, we discuss the motives and methods of violence that pervade modern German literature. From Kleist's novella Michael Kohlhaas (1811) and Schiller's drama Die Rauber (1781) through Uli Edel's film Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex (2008), we trace a progression of violence that binds 18th- and 19th-century literary models of revolt and terror to the events of the 20th century and the cultural memory of today.

Topic: Revolt and Terror in German Literature. Permission Instructor/Chair. Not open to first-years, sophomores