| source Yale (X) |
level |
department German Studies (X) |
MW 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu An interdisciplinary inquiry into the seminal literary, artistic, social, political, and intellectual movements that constitute German culture and thought. Topics include Germans and their cultural and national identity; the Enlightenment; melancholy and the German psyche; the German family; German industrialization; the impact of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud; the Weimar Republic; and Nazism and the Holocaust.
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T 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Readings in translation History of the folktale from the late seventeenth through the late nineteenth centuries. Basic concepts, terminology, and interpretations of folktales, with some attention to twentieth-century theoretical approaches. Performance and audience, storytellers, and gender-related distinctions. Interconnections between oral and written traditions examined in narratives from western Europe and Greece.
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MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Readings in translation The relationship between art and subjectivity in German literary texts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Readings from Kant's first and third
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Interchanges between German and Jewish cultures from 1750 to 1933. Contextual background for understanding the Holocaust. Primary texts, read in translation, debate enlightenment, civil rights, integration, anti-semitism, Zionism, and diaspora. Comparison with other cultural, religious, and ethnic conflicts.
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Th 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Readings in translation Study of narrative texts from the era of classical probabilistic philosophies. The history of probabilistic thinking and contemporary debates on risk and risk taking; contingency as a basic element of narration. Works by Defoe, Wieland, Voltaire, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Poe, and others.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Readings in translation Theories of passion from Descartes and Hobbes to Baumgarten, Burke, and Kant. The relationship between passion and literary representation from Shakespeare and Racine to Richardson and Goethe. Theoretical questions concerning psychology, epistemology, aesthetics, and anthropology. Theatrical performance of passion in the seventeenth century; narrative representation in the eighteenth century.
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M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The tradition of the con artist in literature and film, from eighteenth-century German texts of Goethe and Schiller to Ben Stiller's
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Transformation of the classical Greek elegy form in modern times by Goethe, Hölderlin, and Rilke.
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MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Investigation of the centrality of children in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture. Children?s modalities of thinking, playing, and coping. Childhood as a prototype for experimentation and critique. Works by Joyce, Proust, Woolf, Baldwin, Benjamin, and Golding. Some attention to different models of memory from the literatures of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cognitive science.
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MW 4.00-5.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The origins, rise, and fall of Germany's first democratic experiment between 1919 and 1933 as a paradigmatic example of modernity. Topics include the relationship between culture and politics, social and political reform, the 'New Woman,' anti-Semitism, urban culture, and Americanization. Sources from literature, criticism, theater, architecture, fine arts, and film.
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W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Close reading of Adorno's
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Individual study under faculty supervision. Applicants must submit a prospectus and bibliography approved by the faculty adviser to the director of undergraduate studies. The student meets with the adviser at least one hour each week and takes a final examination or writes a term paper.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Preparation of a one-term senior essay, typically during the fall term, under the supervision of a member of the faculty.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Preparation of a two-term senior essay under the supervision of a member of the faculty.
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