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| 470:365 - LITERATURE & SOCIAL CHANGE | ||
| German Experiments and Nightmares from Realism to Modernism | ||
Instructor: Dr. Chadwick Smith |
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| This course examines the interaction between German literature and other social institutions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We will examine German responses to rapidly changing technological, economic, and material conditions, as well as contemporary arguments about the nature of literature itself. We will consider how literature and theoretical writing provide a site in which to imagine and experiment with forms of social change, and how they do so particularly in the wake of rapid changes in technology that followed the failed revolutions of the 19th century, continued through German unification and industrialization, and culminated in the First World War. As we examine a variety of conflicts between traditional social norms and new conceptions of self and society, we will trace the evolution of conceptions of social class, gender and identity, and the anxieties that such developments inspired. | ||
| Readings will include selections from: Benjamin, Brecht, Fontane, Freud, Musil, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Simmel. | ||
| Readings, assignments and discussion in English. | ||
| In English. 3 credits. | ||
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