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Academic Year 2005/2006
Kafka and Viennese Modernism
GERM 383 FA
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"
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
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Four short papers; one research paper.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA GERM
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
GRST214 OR GRST217 OR (WUPG251 AND WUPG252)
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Lensing,Leo A.
- Times: .M.W... 11:00AM-12:20PM; Location: FISK412;
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: UNL)
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Speaking, Writing
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Last Updated on MAR-30-2006
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