GER 576

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Open Seminar in German Studies

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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 spring 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	43209	Lecture-Discussion	G	3:00PM -4:50PM	T	113 Davenport Hall	Leucht, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Swiss Literature Section Info: Spring 2017 GER 576 "Selten war so viel Anfang" – Deutschsprachige Debüts in der Schweizer Literatur der 1960er-Jahre "Rarely has so much begun" - these are the words used in 2009 by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the Swiss newspaper of record, to describe the German Swiss literature of the 1960s, a decade that saw an unprecedented emergence of new voices. While Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt had already established themselves among the leading writers of the German-speaking world, it was authors such as Peter Bichsel, Jürg Federspiel, Hugo Lötscher, Paul Nizon, Jürg Steiner, and Otto F. Walter who now entered the literary stage for the very first time. Their débuts, published between 1959 und 1964, deal with the narrow-mindedness of Swiss society, Switzerland's "exceptional" position within Europe, and such issues as the country's hypocritical attitude towards foreign workers or its political oppression of women. Their storylines, and especially their aesthetic novelty more than once aroused considerable controversy among literary critics, culminating in the so-called "Zürcher Literaturstreit" (1966), in which literary scholar Emil Staiger expressed his objections to contemporary literature. The goals of this course are to provide students with an overview of the literary topography of German Swiss literature during the 1960s, as well as insight into the political and literary discussions relevant to the works so as to make students aware how much resistance their authors had to overcome in order to give German Swiss literature after 1945 a more modern and international orientation.