GERM383

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GERM383

Kafka and Viennese Modernism GERM383 SP

Next Offered in 9798 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.

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: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA GERM

Prerequisites: GERM214 or GERM216 or GERM217 or WUPG251 and WUPG252

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

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