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Academic Year 2000/2001
The Roots of Modernity: Germany's Classical Age
GERM 241 FA
Most of the questions we ask today, how we pose them, and what we assume were first enunciated around 1800. The course will explore such issues as the fictional character of social and economic arrangements, the
problematization of reality, and the
breakup of traditional modes of literary representation. The course's primary focus will be on one of the most complex works of European literature, Goethe's FAUST, with a special emphasis on Part II.
MAJOR READINGS
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, FAUST, tr. by W. Arndt, ed. by C. Hamlin Liselotte Dieckmann: GOETHE'S FAUST: A CRITICAL READING Jane K. Brown: GOETHE'S FAUST: THE GERMAN TRAGEDY Marshall Berman: ALL THAT IS SOLID
MELTS INTO AIR Andreas Huyssen:
AFTER THE GREAT DIVIDE: MODERNISM, MASS CULTURE, POSTMODERNISM NEW GERMAN CRITIQUE #22 (Winter 1981) and #33 (Fall 1984) Jean-Francois Lyotard: THE POST-MODERN CONDITION
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Depends on class size. If small (under 40) there will be three papers (two short, 8 pp. each) one longer (12-15 pp). If large, there will be examinations three times during the term.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Knowledge of German or of European intellectual history helpful, but not required. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they
will be dropped from the class
list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA GERM
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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