Introduction to German Literature
TR 2:00 – 3:15 pm
Taught by Doreen Densky
This course has two major goals. First, it introduces students to a selection of representative authors and exemplary texts of German-language literature from the 18th to the 21st century. Second, it helps students develop close and critical reading skills while they learn to express their analysis of literary texts in German, both in speaking and in writing. Covering the three major literary genres—poetry, prose, drama—some of the following issues will be discussed: the representation of time and history; the uncanny; the relationship between form and content; the depiction of otherness; and the economy of human relationships on the basis of hierarchy, love, and authority. (The course is required for the German major.)
Taught in German.