German Studies 360 - ADV TOPCS-EVIL & GER IMAGINARY

Each topic focuses on a particular literary epoch, movement, genre or author from German literary culture. All sections taught in German.Normally offered each spring: For some, German culture had a shadowy international profile even before the Nazis came to power. This seminar examines the works of the imagination that contributed to this dark image, including the Faust legend, the works of horror once called “German tales,” and the haunted screen of Weimar cinema. We will also consider the transformed understanding of such works in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Literary works from Goethe, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Edgar Allen Poe, and Guy de Maupassant; theoretical writings from Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno; films from Wiene, Murnau, Spielberg. Conducted in German. Prerequisites: GER 161 and GER 300 (or above); or permission of instructor.

Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores