Past Graduate Courses

Interpreting Goethe's Faust.
GRMN 36409, CMLT 36400, SCTH 47011 
Intensive study of Goethe’s Faust, Parts I and II. The major task of the seminar is to develop a synthetic reading of the entire Faust drama, as Goethe conceived it. What are the leading concepts of a contemporary interpretation of Faust? Discussion will address the major lines of interpretation as developed especially in the philosophical literature and in the major recent studies commentaries. Selective consideration of the tradition of Faust-representations (from the so-called Volksbuch to Valery will enable us to circumscribe the historical and aesthetic specificity of Goethe’s work. Sound reading knowledge of German required.
Fall 2009, David Wellbery

Literary Case Studies
GRMN 35109
Since the French lawyer Francis Gayot de Pitaval published his famous collection of criminal cases (“Causes célèbres et intéressantes”, 1734-1743), the case study as a specific genre has basically been developed in the fields of clinical and juridical anamnesis. At the same time, this genre has always been very close to literature: Not only have lawyers and psychiatrists always used literary techniques to present their cases, but literature itself has picked up these ‘real’ cases and made them the initial basis for investigating the hidden mainsprings of crime and madness. However, the objectives of literary case studies are neither clinical nor juridical in the narrower sense of these terms: whereas medicine and law aim at subsuming the individual case under general categories of disease or crime (such as “schizophrenia” or “murder”), the cognizance of literature is more directed at bringing out the stress ratio between singular case and general norm. In literary texts, an individual becomes a ‘case’ just because his or her singular fate cannot be subsumed under general rules, because he or she remains excluded and / or exempt from the law. If deviant subjectivity in modern literature can nevertheless be called exemplary, this exemplarity is paradoxically due to its state of exception. In this course we will read literary case studies from Schiller to Handke to examine how they deal with this paradox of a ‘particular general’ or an ‘exemplary singularity’. We will also read selected clinical and juridical case studies with regard to the mutual interferences of law, literature and medicine.
Readings will include Friedrich Schiller, „Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre“ / „Schillers Pitaval“ („Merkwürdige Rechtsfälle als ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Menschheit, verf., bearb. u.hg. v. Friedrich Schiller“) / Carl Philipp Moritz, „Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde“ [excerpt] / Heinrich v. Kleist, „Michael Kohlhaas“ / E.T.A. Hoffmann, „Der Einsiedler Serapion“; „Der Sandmann“ / Georg Büchner, „Lenz“ / Theodor Fontane, „Unterm Birnbaum“ / Sigmund Freud, „Studien über Hysterie“ / Michel Foucault, „Der Fall Rivière“ / Ingeborg Bachmann, „Der Fall Franza“ / Peter Handke, „Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter“. The course will be given in German.
Spring 2009, Susanne Lüdemann

Translations. Figurations of Trans-Nationality in Texts of Goethe and Political Romanticism
GRMN 36009
What is now called by historians as “the long 19th century” (the period from the French Revolution to the end of World War One), was mostly interpreted as the main period of modern European nation building. But nevertheless, already at its very beginning, this period is also a time of thinking the trans-national structure of Europe in a new way. Especially in the ‘Age of Goethe,’ the number of attempts viewing and conceiving Europe as an entity of mutual translations (and transfers) in the domains of culture and politics are increasing. But on the other hand, thinking Europe as an entity of translation means something different in this time: to take up the traditional doctrine of translatio imperii, which had its origins in the Christianity of the Middle Ages. Against the background of current philosophical theories concerning the future of Europe (Rémi Brague, Massimo Cacciari, Peter Koslowski), the course will investigate the contemporary combination of as well as the contemporary tension between these two models of cultural and political translation. It will be devoted to close readings of texts of Goethe, Kant, Novalis, and Friedrich Schlegel in their cultural and political aspects and implications. Readings in German (and English); discussion in German.
Spring 2009, Uwe Hebekus

Enlightenment Typologies.
GRMN 53500, ENGL 53500
This seminar is concerned with the identification and classification of character types in Germany, England, and France over the long eighteenth century. Between the early modern period and the nineteenth century, the order of knowledge and the grammar of taxonomy underwent a radical change, and so did the ways of naming and grouping human beings.  Ancient systems—such as classification by the four humors, or by classical dramatic types, or by Biblical typology—lost their authority in the eighteenth century. But the new sociological typologies associated with the nineteenth century, and with the realist fiction of, say, Balzac, had not yet taken shape. The eighteenth century brings us the genius, the antiquary, the libertine, the virtuoso, the man of system, the dilettante, the man of feeling: an array of figures that become prominent in fiction, drama, and social commentary. What are the taxonomic logics behind these “descriptions of men” (and women) in the eighteenth century? What did eighteenth-century literature and philosophy contribute to modern understandings of “characters”?  We will explore the many diverse and contradictory attempts to classify and describe types of characters in a multinational enlightenment.  Physiognomy, race, climate, talent, and occupation will all be considered for the part they play in shaping the new sense of human typology.  We may look at some visual materials along the way. Readings in intellectual history will be taken from such authors as Ray, Montesquieu, Hogarth, Lavater, Blumenbach, and Kant. Literary texts will include works by such writers as Rousseau, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Goethe, Scott, and Balzac. In modern criticism and commentary, we will be reading the likes of Lukacs, Northrop Frye, Ian Watt, Deidre Lynch, Franco Moretti, and Alex Woloch. Requirements will include a class presentation, a short paper, and a seminar paper.
Spring 2009, Jim Chandler, Christiane Frey

Literary Realism
GRMN 35209
Realism in German literature reached its peak in the period between 1850 and 1890 when authors increasingly focused on the literary representation of bourgeois experience and everyday life. However, programs of realism are in a way as old as literature itself: Mimesis, imitation of the contemplated or experienced reality and verisimilitude have been ideals in Arts and Literature since antiquity and they have seen numerous revivals and transformations throughout history. Yet it was only in the 19th century that the “realistic impulse” (Richard Brinkmann) became so explicit that a whole generation of artists and writers now called itself “realists”. However, this “programmatic realism” came along with the withdrawal of reality itself which no longer appeared a simple ‘given’ or self-evident to human perception. Thus, “realism” is not only a category of style or the designation of a period but also the indication of a problem: the problem of how to bridge the gap between representation and what is represented, between the ‘subjectivity’ of an observer and the supposed ‘objectivity’ of the observed. The more sophisticated the literary techniques of description and hypotyposis became, the more reality revealed itself to be dependent on the media in which it is described. In this course we will reconstruct the history of the ‘realistic problem’ through a range of literary and theoretical texts from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Readings will include Goethe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Franz Grillparzer, Gottfried Keller, Adalbert Stifter, Theodor Fontane and Robert Musil. The course will be given in German.
Winter 2009, Susanne Lüdemann

Richard Wagner and Critical Theory
GRMN 41200, CMST 41200, MUSI 45509
PQ: Advanced standing and consent of instructor. This course examines the intersection of Wagner and contemporary critical theory. We read a broad range of Wagner’s writings and a broad range of writings on Wagner; we explore a number of the stage works on paper and in production. In addition to Wagner’s own writings, we read critical works by: Carolyn Abbate, Theodor Adorno, Elisabeth Bronfen, Catherine Clement, Carl Dahlhaus, Friedrich Kittler, Barry Millington, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Michel Poizat, Michael Steinberg, Hans-Rudolf Vaget, Samuel Weber, Marc Weiner and Slavoj Zizek.
Winter 2009, David Levin

Poor World: Walser, Kafka, Beckett
GRMN 37909
The seminar will focus on a series of modernist authors whose project would appear to be to discover the possibilities of human life and expression at the point of a radical impoverishment of one's world or form of life. The seminar will begin with a discussion of Melville's Bartlbeyand morve on to novels and short prose by Walser, Franz Kafka, and Samuel Becket.
Winter 2009, Eric L. Santner

Media and Theology
GRMN 35509, CMST 35509, THEO 35509
Theology as the discourse of the divine is predicated on the deep chasm between God and man, transcendence and immanence, as well as the assumption that communication across this divide is simultaneously possible and problematical. At different historical junctures the problem of mediation and communication came especially to the fore. Beginning with the Old and the New Testaments we will examine some of these junctures, but we will focus in particular on the European Reformation and its cultures of communication. Arguably, at the center of the Reformation was a crisis of mediation to which it responded and which it helped to perpetuate. Religious media were thought to be fundamentally corrupted and corruptive and hence in need of reform. To name only a few examples, priesthood, liturgy, worship, and scripture had all been perverted and had to be restored to their original state of ‘pure communication.’ Consequently, media were as much instruments of reform as they were its targets. Likewise, the various theologies of the Reformation offered different solutions to the perceived crisis of mediation. It will be one of the working assumptions of this course that theology and Reformation theology in particular are one of the major tributaries of modern thinking about media and communication. Readings and discussions in English.
Winter 2009, Christopher Wild

Singer and Bellow: Jewish Novelists of the 20th Century
YDDH 23709/33709,GRMN 23709/33709, CMLT 22801/32801, ENGL 28909/48917
The American novelist Saul Bellow and the Yiddish storyteller I.B. Singer, two of the most innovative writers of the twentieth century, created artful fiction that articulated the search for a spiritual realm in a starkly secular world. They both rejected political and religious utopias, which they vehemently exposed in their work. Their writings encompass the major seismic changes in modern Jewish life in the twentieth century: migration, urbanization, war, Holocaust, marital breakup, sexual freedom, alienation, and exile. In this course we will compare and contrast the novels of Bellow and Singer. Both came of age as writers in the polarized political and cultural climate of the interwar period. They were indebted to the Eastern European Jewish culture in Yiddish that continued to inspire them. The Yiddish-American context will be discussed in connection with their only collaboration in print, Bellow’s translation of Singer’s short story “Gimpel the Fool,” which became the latter’s introduction to a mass readership in English. We will examine how Bellow and Singer developed a neo-conservative world view that articulated their disillusionment with modernity and the political and cultural isms of the twentieth century. The secularization of Jewish life became the backdrop against which the two writers created individual characters who, often in monologue form, elaborated on their discontent with modernity and quest for spiritual meaning. Both writers were at the forefront of the Jewish literary renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. We will examine how they artistically addressed the aftershock of the Holocaust in their novels of the 1960s, Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1969) and Singer’s Enemies: A Love Story (1972). Bellow and Singer reinvented the novel as a poetic universe of self reflection that gave voice to the Jewish urban experience. As such, to quote Murray Baumgarten, they created “city scriptures”; novelistic styles that aspired to “higher” transcendental meanings beyond the market driven conditions of modern life. The novels of these two belated neo-Romanticists encapsulate the central intellectual and spiritual ferments of their times: the secularization of Jewish life and its impact on the individual in the break-up of traditional religious life, the urban experience, and the destruction of European Jewry in World War II.
Winter 2009, Jan Schwarz.

Knowledge and Sensibility from Spinoza to Kant.
GRMN 47501. 
Behind the unassuming title of Herder's 1778 treatise, "Vom Erkennen und Empfinden der menschlichen Seele," stands one of the most central and hotly-debated issues of the 18th century. To what extent does "cognition" rely on "sensation"? Are knowledge and sensibility two autonomous faculties? Or are they merely two sides of an inseparable unity? Do they have a history? Do animals share these faculties? These questions are at the crux of developments in the domains of epistemology, psychology and aesthetics that will trigger the emergence of modernity around 1800. The course traces the steps that lead up to this all-important historical juncture by examining the discursive and epistemic history of the relationship of knowledge to sensibility from Spinoza to Kant.
Fall 2008, Christiane Frey.

Between Realism & Modernism: Theodor Fontane and Thomas Mann.
GRMN 37208.
This course will be devoted to two major works of modern German literature: Fontane's "Der Stechlin" and Thomas Mann's "Der Zauberberg." These two monumental novels are about turning points in German history: the decline of Prussia and the spiritual malaise in Europe on the eve of World War I. The two books also straddle the divide between realism and modernism. Traditionally regarded as the culmination of nineteenth-century realist narrative in Germany, there is a distinctly modernist sensibility which announces itself in them. Readings in German (and English); discussion in English. Open to advanced undergraduates pending instructor's consent.
Fall 2008, Robert Buch.

Conversion: Between Philosophy and Religion
GRMN 37508
It is often forgotten that the experience and concept of conversion originally belonged to the discourse and practice of ancient philosophy, and was only later appropriated by Christianity in its claim to be the true pursuit of wisdom.  In this seminar we will investigate the ways in which this double provenance cross-fertilized its historical and discursive fate in both arenas by pursuing questions such as: What lends conversion its exemplarity and evidence, and how does it, in turn, lend evidence to philosophical and religious reasoning? What is its contribution to the founding a new philosophical system or religious faith? How is it replicated to other subjects across time and space? What are some of its most important media and genres? What is its role in the formation and narration of the self, and, more specifically, what is its relation to the tradition of spiritual exercises and meditative practices? We will start with ancient philosophy (Plato, Seneca et al.) and early Christianity (Paul, Augustine et al.), move into early modernity (Ignatius, Descartes et. al.), and, if time permits, will end with 18th-century philosophy (Hamann, Fichte et al.).
Fall 2008, Christopher Wild

Jews in Scandinavian Literature-Scandinavian Jewish Literature.
GRMN 35601, NORW 35601, SCAN 35601, HIST 32803.
The course takes its starting point in the literary and physical attacks on Jews in ##35601. Denmark in the first half of the 19th century and the exclusionary politics of the new-founded Norwegian state, which didn't permit Jews into the country after 1814. Both events sparked reactions by Scandinavian authors amongst them Hans Christian Andersen, M.A. Goldschmidt, and Henrik Wergeland. The course aims at tracing the situation of Jews in Scandinavia historically and focuses on literary representations of Jews and their function both in works of non-Jewish and Jewish authors in Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Special attention will be given to the intersections between the categories of race, nation, religion, gender and sexuality.
Spring 2008, Stefanie von Schnurbein and Jan Schwarz.

Iconographies of Violence.
GRMN 32800.
Iconographies of Violence. This course examines representations of violence in twentieth-century German literature, focusing in particular in texts that draw on visual material. Three sets of questions will guide our discussions. (1) Why and how do these texts try to appropriate the "power" of images; (2) what are the iconographic traditions in which they inscribe themselves; (3) what implications does the engagement the pictorial have for the texts’ “image” of history and for the practice of narration. Primary texts by Franz Kafka; Ernst Jünger; Georges Bataille; Peter Weiss; Heiner Müller; and others; secondary readings on the tradition of ekphrasis (Laokoon) and critical literature on the theory of the image (Louis Marin; W.J.T. Mitchell, et al.). Readings in German and English; discussions in English.
Spring 2008, Robert Buch.

Neogermanic Paganism: History-Ideology-Contexts.
GRMN 34301, NORW 34301, HREL 46700.
The course investigates attempts to create a "German", "Germanic", or "Nordic" religion based on pre-Christian Scandinavian sources, as diffracted through the contemporary imaginary. It will trace the history of these neogermanic pagan movements from their inception within the nationalist and racist "völkisch" movement of early 20th century Germany through contemporary neopagan formations such as Odinism and Asatru in the USA and Europe. Special emphasis will be placed on the relations between spirituality, academic theory, political thought and aesthetics.
Spring 2008, Stefanie von Schnurbein and Bruce Lincoln.

Temporalities of Narrative.
GRMN 36007.
Narrative has its own time, and this in two senses: the fictive world has its time; and the act of narrating itself occurs in a certain temporal context. This seminar explores this double dimension of the “time of the narrative,” examining both the inherent temporal structure of narrative as well as the function of narration in biographical and historical time. The questions addressed are: What exactly is the relationship between time and narration? In what ways is the biographical time of fictional characters represented? But also: what is the relationship between fictional time and “real” – historical, cosmological, or biological – time (beyond the difference of histoire and discours)? At what junctures in life and in history is narrating (and reading) considered to be important? And finally: when and how do narrative texts reflect on their temporalities – on the time they represent, and on the moment of their own telling or reading? In addition to relevant narratological studies by Mikhail Bakhtin, Harald Weinrich, Gérard Genette, Paul Ricœur, and others, readings will include novella cycles (Boccaccio’s Decamerone, Goethe’s Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten, Hoffmann’s Die Serapionsbrüder, Keller’s Die Leute von Seldwyla) as well as extracts from novels from Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus  to Novalis’ Heinrich von Ofterdingen. Conducted in German. 
Spring 2008, Christiane Frey.

A Literary History of Schizophrenia (1835-1912).
GRMN 36307. CHSS 36002, SCTH 36307.
This seminar will deal with the development of a modern psychiatric conception of illness in literature. The first part examines Georg Büchner’s story “Lenz” which was often cited as a case study of schizophrenia. The subject of the story, written in 1835 and based on reports of the philanthropic clergyman Oberlin (1778), is in fact a “stranded poet.” In the course of the rediscovery of Büchner in the 1870s, “Lenz” was read primarily as the story of mental illness that can be illustrated first of all by Gerhard Hauptmann’s “Bahnwärter Thiel.” Following Hauptmann and others, a clinical way of reading the story established itself, which then became manifest in the field of psychiatry itself. In the second part of the course we will turn our attention to psychiatric cases, with the famous “Schreber case” as a focal point. It provoked a discussion about the incapacitation of the mentally ill and was taken up in the professional literature (S. Freud, C. G. Jung, E. Bleuler) and the press as well. In the third part of the seminar we will look into Expressionist novellas (Gottfried Benn’s “Rönne,” Georg Heym’s “The Madman,” and Alfred Döblin’s “The Murder of a Buttercup”) and into the peculiarities of schizophrenia they represent. Readings and discussion in English.
Spring 2008, Yvonne Wübben.

Re-Forming Humanity: Literature and Architecture in 1920s Germany.
GRMN 46700.
The impact of German architecture and urbanism's turn to Modernism in the course of the 1920s has had repercussions on an international scale up until the present day. Such programs concerning “New Living” and the “New City” are, invariably, associated with programs postulating the re-creation of man. The human being envisioned in this model will have freed himself from the ballast of the past; his lifestyle is mobile and modern; he despises sentimentality and prefers technocratic functionality. From Paul Scheerbart and Adolf Loos to Bruno Taut and the representatives of the Bauhaus, the pioneers of new architecture championed applied anthropology and the molding of human beings. The workshop's aim is to identify and discuss relevant strategic coordinates through the study of programmatic writings in question. Looking at the architecture will make us ponder who the prospective residents are to be; consulting contemporary literature and essays will yield some answers. Particular attention needs to be paid to the complementary and anti-type of such urban visions, that is to say the “cool” and anonymous urban hero of criminal disposition, as envisioned by Serner or Brecht. One promising line of investigation will be into the development of the Bauhaus-philosophy in American exile, especially of course in Chicago (Mies van der Rohe). Due to the source material we will be studying, the seminar will be held in German. A reader will be made available in good time. A reading list for orientation: W. Serner, Letzte Lockerung. Handbrevier für Hochstapler. – B. Brecht, Aus dem Lesebuch für Städtebewohner. – H. Lethen, Verhaltenslehren der Kälte. – Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House. The seminar will be taught in German.
Spring 2008, Albrecht Koschorke.

Messianism and Modernity.
GRMN 36800. 
This seminar explores the proliferation of messianic thought among German-Jewish writers in the first half of the twentieth century, among them, Franz Rosenzweig, Ernst Bloch, Gustav Landauer, Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin. 
Winter 2008, Eric Santner and Paul Mendes-Flohr.

Heinrich von Kleist: Skepticism, Contingency, Intensity.
GRMN 47300.
PQ: Graduate students only.
In this seminar we will interpret Kleist’s writing (letters, essays, stories, plays, journalism) from three distinct but complimentary points of view: as an elaboration of the skeptical imaginary (including skepticism about knowledge, meaning and other minds); as a play with contingency (metaphysical, narratological, semiotic); as an experiment in modes of intensity (energetic, affective, aesthetic). A major task of the seminar will be to elaborate a unified conception of Kleist’s literary project that accounts for its historical and structural specificity. Students will be expected to engage critically with major contributions to the secondary literature. Readings and discussion in German.
Winter 2008, David Wellbery.   

R.W. Fassbinder: Melodrama, Politics, and the Poetics of Suffering.
GRMN 43500, CMST 43500.
This seminar will explore the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, from the early social melodramas (Katzelmacher, Why Does Herr K Run Amok?) to the later experiments in adaptation (Fontane Effi Briest, Lola, Querelle) and, in between, the extraordinary accounts of domestic suffering (Fear Eats the Soul, Fox & His Friends, Marriage of Maria Braun, In a Year of 13 Moons, Veronika Voss).  Readings by Thomas Elsaesser, Kaja Silverman, Alice Kuzniar, Steven Shaviro, and others.
Winter 2008, David Levin.

Jewish American Literature Since 1945.
GRMN 27800/37800, YDDH 27800/37800, ENGL 25004/45002, CMLT 29800/39800.
The goal of the course is to expand the conception of the field of Jewish American literature from English-only to English-plus. The course will examine how Yiddish literary models and styles influenced the resurgence of Jewish American literature since 1945, and discuss how recent Jewish American novels have renewed the engagement with the Yiddish literary tradition. Readings are by I.B.Singer, Chaim Grade, Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Grace Paley, Jonathan Safran Foer, Pearl Abraham and Dara Horn.
Winter 2008, Jan Schwarz.

Nietzsche on Art and Literature.
GRMN 47100, CMLT 47100, SCTH 47000.
PQ: Graduate students only. Reading knowledge of German is required. Limit 20 students.
This seminar will undertake a reconstruction of Nietzsche’s aesthetic theory and critical practice as developed across his entire oeuvre, from the Geburt der Tragödie to Der Fall Wagner. Although canonical interpretations of Nietzsche’s views (e.g., Simmel, Heidegger, Deleuze, Danto) as well as recent commentary (e.g., Figl, Gerhardt, Nehamus) will be considered as frameworks of interpretation, the primary concern of the seminar will be the close reading of Nietzsche’s texts themselves. A particular concern will be the elaboration of Nietzsche’s views (much discussed in recent scholarship) on rhetoric and on the relation of philosophical and literary language.
Fall 2007, David Wellbery.

Modern Yiddish Literature: Diaspora and Homecoming.
GRMN 25007/35007 YDDH 25000/35000.
This course will apply various theoretical models of Diaspora literature to the study of Yiddish tales, short stories, monologues, plays, novels and life-writing from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the topics addressed in the course are Yiddish humor and satire, literary modernism, the classical Yiddish writers’ image of the shtetl (small Jewish town in Central and Eastern Europe) and Isaac Bashevis Singer’s demon narrators. Readings are by Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, Y.L.Peretz. Scholem-Aleichem, Dovid Bergelson, Der Nister, Jonah Rosenfeld, I.B.Singer, Chaim Grade, Ester Kreytman, Chava Rosenfarb, Yankev Glathsteyn and Sh. Ansky.
Fall 2007, Jan Schwarz.

Acquisition/Teaching of German.
GRMN 49100.
An introduction to foreign language acquisition and to the theoretical models underlying current methods, approaches and classroom practices, as well as their practical applications.  Required of all graduate students who wish to teach in the College German Program.

Autobiographical Writing.
GRMN 42100.
What we commonly call our ‘life’ is not something that simply happens, but rather something that is made up, constructed, invented! Classical rhetoric already provided the tools for this task: boilerplates (topoi) and style sheets (enkomion). By the end of the 18th century, however, we seem to have lost sight of, or even repressed ‘life’s’ cultural mediation and replaced it instead with individual memory as a seemingly direct means to the desired end. Especially the short, bold autobiographical texts on our list reflect the fact that, during the 19th and 20th century, autobiography nevertheless continued to avail itself of boilerplates and style sheets. By experimenting with the formats of their own genre, these texts not only critique traditional forms of autobiography, but also develop textual strategies that cast a new light on the relation between ‘life’ and the processes of its invention. In addition to a range of theoretical texts from antiquity to the present, we shall study: Ilse Aichinger, Spiegelgeschichte; Walter Benjamin, Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert; Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Aus meinem Leben. Dichtung und Wahrheit (excerpts); Jean Paul. Selberlebensbeschreibung; Jean Paul, Konjekturalbiographie; Adalbert Stifter, Mein Leben; Peter Weiss, Die Ästhetik des Widerstands (excerpts). (Readings and Discussion in German.)
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Fall 2007, Frauke Berndt.

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