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Academic Year 2002/2003

Kafka and Viennese Modernism
GERM 383 SP
Clusters:

Jewish and Israel Studies

This course will focus on a relatively neglected but important framework for understanding Kafka's work in context: Viennese Modernism. Readings will explore analogies and interactions related to literary impressionism (Altenberg), psychoanalysis and its early literary applications (Freud, Rank, Stekel, Wittels), satire and aphoristic form (Karl Kraus), anti-ornamentalism and classical form (the polemical essays of the architect Adolf Loos), expressionist art (Kokoschka, Kubin, Schiele, Gerstl), and cinema (THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI).

MAJOR READINGS

Kafka, "Beschreibung eines Kampfes"; "Das Urteil"; "Die Verwandlung"; "Ein Bericht fuer eine Akademie"; "Ein Hungerkuenstler"; "Josephine die Saengerin, oder das Volk der Maeuse"; "Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer" Peter Altenberg, "Parabel"; "Der Affe Peter"; "Eine Hungerkuenstlerin" Sigmund Freud, DREI ABHANDLUNGEN ZUR SEXUALTHEORIE and other writings Oskar Kokoschka, DIE TRAEUMENDEN KNABEN; MOERDER, HOFFNUNG DER FRAUEN Karl Kraus, "Er ist doch e Jud"; "Heine und die Folgen"; "Aphorisms"; LITERATUR Adolf Loos, "Ornament und Verbrechen" and other essays DAS KABINETT DES DR. CALIGARI (film) Mark Anderson, KAFKA'S CLOTHES Sander L. Gilman, KAFKA THE PATIENT

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Four short papers; one research paper or final examination.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

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: GERM214 OR GERM216 OR GERM217 OR (WUPG251 AND WUPG252) Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003

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