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Nov 21, 2024
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GERM 270 - Aesthetic Forms, Texts, and GenresSemester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)
Topic for 2015/16a: Sick Stories: Illness in German Literature. In her essay “On Being Ill,” Virginia Woolf wonders why “illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.” This course will examine literary and philosophical representations of illness, both of the body and of the mind. Drawing on works by such authors as Ingeborg Bachmann, Georg Büchner, Anne Duden, Sigmund Freud, Emmy Hennings, ETA Hoffmann, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Elfriede Jelinek, Arthur Schnitzler, Thomas Mann, and Friedrich Nietzsche, we trace how language and narrative combine to define or subvert the categories of truth and lies, the normal and the pathological, the self and the other. Mr. Schreiber.
Two 75-minute periods.
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