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2013-2014 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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GLS 227-01 - Topics in German Literature in Translation: The Writers of Modern Life (Spring)4 credits Spring
Cross-listed as: GRM 227-01 . This writing intensive course deals with how European writers make sense of the emergence of city life. A series of comparative readings about London, Paris, Vienna, and Berlin by Balzac, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Dickens, D”blin, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Freud, Marx, Poe, Schnitzler, Stifter, and Zola will help us investigate how these writers construct discourses on the city that make transformations in everyday life-consumer culture, perception, social and gender norms, politics, and technology-knowable. Our reading selections will be complemented by cultural criticism that calls into question assumptions about “modernity” and its cultural centers.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Byrd
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