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Academic Year 2004/2005
Kafka and Viennese Modernism
GERM 383 SP
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.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA GERM
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
GERM214 OR GERM217 OR (WUPG251 AND WUPG252)
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