GER 573

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18thC German Studies

Credit: 4 hours.

Seminar in selected genres, themes, or authors of the eighteenth century.

4 graduate hours. No professional credit. May be repeated in separate semesters to a maximum of 12 hours if topics vary.

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GER 573 class schedule data for spring 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	48400	Lecture-Discussion	R	3:00PM -4:50PM	T	1030 Foreign Languages Building	Hilger, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: This course explores eighteenth-century German literature through texts with protagonists who are travelers, warriors, and murderers. These figures embody the clash between Enlightenment ideals and social and political realities. We will investigate the representation of gender, class, and race in a variety of genres such as fiction, autobiography, drama, travel narratives, and essays. We will start the semester with Wilhelm Meister’s journey of Bildung, continue with narratives of travel and emigration (Virginia oder die Kolonie von Kentucky), and conclude with portrayals of warfare and assassinations in the wake of the French Revolution (Penthesilea, Bekenntnisse einer Giftmischerin). Our readings will be supplemented with theoretical writings on these topics and secondary literature on these texts.