GER 470

Spring 2012 All Classes

All Classes

Middle Ages to Baroque

Credit: 3 hours.

Literary, thematic, cultural, and bibliographical analysis of the major authors, works, genres, and movements in German literature from 750-1720.

Same as MDVL 470. Prerequisite: GER 332 or equivalent.

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GER 470 class schedule data for spring 2012
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	33594	Lecture-Discussion	M	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	1110 Foreign Languages Building	Wade, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Section Info: Topic: Communicating Bodies in German Literature before 1750 The aim of this course is to deepen and broaden discussions of the theme of "the body" in German Literature before 1750 which have been ongoing over the last few years. It will treat questions basic to cultural studies, given that human communication takes place with and via the body and that the human body always has a communicative dimension: it is perceived, displayed and disciplined in diverse ways and manners. The inscription and visualization of the body in text and image has numerous aspects - symbolic, aesthetic, religious, political, gender - which ascribe to it a series of functions, and thus we must differentiate between the everyday, erotic, standardized, diseased, tortured, dismembered or other bodies. By interrogating key works from the middle ages to the baroque, we will employ several interpretative models for understanding representations of the body in the literature of this period. The course will be conducted in German. Class format consists of discussions, response papers, and a final project.