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| LANGUAGE EXPERIMENTS: BEYOND THE FRONTIER 16:470:670:01 |
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| In German. | ||
| Professor Peter Demetz, 2007-2008 Craig Professor Fall 2007 Mondays 4:30-7:10 Seminar Room, 172 College Avenue |
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| In my course, we will discuss the language experiments and the radical theories of the German avantgarde in the European context of Modernism and analyze the demands for a reconstitution of poetic texts as purified instruments of communication in an age of war and revolution. Among the authors to be included will be Arno Holz and his liberated verse, the Italian Futurists (F.T.Marinetti) and their German allies A. Stramm and J.R. Becher. We shall devote special attention to the practices and ideas of the Zürich and Berlin Dada groups as well as to the manifold achievements of Kurt Schwitters, acquaint ourselves with the French surrealists (Breton, Aragon) , the Czech "poetists" (Nezval, Teige), and consider Jean /Hans Arp¹s poems. In conclusion, we will turn to the more recent experiments in Concrete Poetry (E. Gomringer) All essential readings in German, language of instruction/discussion German and English. | ||
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