GER 576

Fall 2012 All Classes

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Open Seminar in German Studies

Credit: 4 hours.

Seminar in literary phenomena (such as movements, genres and forms, relations, themes and types, interdisciplinary studies, women's studies) that go beyond the confines of a particular century.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: GER 510.

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GER 576 class schedule data for fall 2012
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	30470	Lecture-Discussion	G	3:00PM -4:50PM	W	Foreign Languages Building	Stenport, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Transnational Euro. Modernism Section Info: Spaces of Transnational European Modernism. This comparative and interdisciplinary seminar focuses on the formation and cultural significance of transnational modernist literature, art, and film in Europe at the end of the nineteenth-century and first decades of the twentieth. It asks how and where modernism develops, how modernism thematizes and formalizes transnational experiences and expressions, and juxtaposes readings and art by diverse figures Joseph Conrad and August Strindberg; Lou Salom� and Hjalmar S�derberg; Rainer Maria Rilke and HenrikIbsen; Andr� Breton and Knut Hamsun; or Amalie Skram and Robert Wiene. Theoretical inquiries center on conceptualizations of the transnational as a critical vehicle of expression for �migr� and exile writers and artists; urban spatiality as a privileged geographical imaginary for modernism; and challenges to center-margin paradigms posed by lesser-known modernist traditions. Genre discussions include investigating relationships between theories of modernism and the rise of modern drama; inquiries into self-reflexively disjointed first-person or autobiographically inflected prose narration; materialism and concrete poetry; expressionist montage cinema; and experimental photography. All texts are available in English translation, but students proficient in German or a Scandinavian language should read the works in the original. Class discussion will be in English. Students will be asked to participate actively in seminars, give presentations orally and as web-artifacts, and conduct a final research project. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.