| source Johns Hopkins University (10) |
level Graduate (X) |
department German (X) |
Graduate Students only. This course is designed for graduate students in other departments who wish to gain reading knowledge of the German language and translation practice from German to English. This course is a continuation of the Fall semester. Focus on advanced grammatical structures. For certification or credit.
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European languages document the evolution of the concept of literature from a generic term indicating the body of writings produced in a particular country or period to one that more particularly signifies works endowed with an aesthetic quality. The concept of literature thus seems to take form in connection with the emergence of a critical discourse, the search for a standard of taste. The dream of founding a âscience littéraireâ modeled on the principles of structural semiotics searching for an elusive âliterarinessâ, literature as a system, a set of formal features, not a collection of discrete, ineffable individuals; it thus involved a rejection of the aesthetic, or at least a reconsideration of its assumptions. This course will pursue the question of "The Idea of Literature" simultaneously from a philosophical and a historical perspective; in moving from formalist literariness to the rediscovery of categories like the ethical, the subject, the reader, the author, and the aesthetic, we will ask such questions as: Can there be a return to an aesthetic education, as some wish, and what would that be? Would such a move resuscitate the ghost of Humeâs gentleman scholar, which the New Critics tried to do away with? Is there a way of formally distinguishing between literature and its various contexts? Authors will include Hume, Kant, Taine, Lanson, Sainte-Beuve, Brunetière, Arnold, Proust, Benjamin, Bréton, Sartre, Bourdieu, De Man, and Eco.
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An introduction to modern German poetry with emphasis on the fate of the lyric subject in twentieth-century verse. Of particular interest to the course will be the tension between lyric freedom on the one hand and poetic constraint on the other. How does modern poetry come to resist the traditional definition of the lyric as an expression of subjectivity and replace it with a concept of the poem as a vehicle for the dissolution of the self or the dispossession of the speaker? Authors to include Rilke, Trakl, George, Benn, and Celan.
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