Fall 2024 German UN3442 section 001

Literature in the 18th and 19th Centurie

Lit in the 18th & 19th Ce

Call Number 12857
Day & Time
Location
MW 11:40am-12:55pm
318 Hamilton Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Dorothea von Muecke
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

Prerequisite OR Corequisite: GERMUN3333

This class will provide an introduction to the rich and varied forms of literary production between 1750 and 1900 by focusing on the culture of Sensibility, the Enlightenment, Storm and Stress, Romanticism, the “Vormärz” and Realism. We will situate major literary innovations of the 18th century in the context of changing reading and theater cultures and focus primarily on Lessing’s innovative domestic tragedy, and on poems and an epistolary novel by Goethe. Then we will discuss the literary production of the 19th century by analyzing changing concepts of art, music and literature during those times of great social and political change. We will study (and translate) poems, and read pamphlets and novellas by Tieck, Kleist, Hölderlin, Novalis, Brentano, Eichendorff, Günderrode, Droste-Hülshoff, Heine, Büchner, Mörike, Keller and Fontane.

**This course is taught entirely in German.

Web Site Vergil
Department Germanic Languages
Enrollment 5 students (25 max) as of 11:06AM Friday, December 6, 2024
Subject German
Number UN3442
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Section key 20243GERM3442W001