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GERM 301 - Senior Seminar Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)
Topic for 2016/17a: Body Language: German Women Writers from the 18th Century to Today. This course sets out to explore how women writers and artists have sought to articulate the complex ways in which one’s physical body intersects with broader political and social upheavals, such as revolution, wars, fascism, communist rule, and terrorism. How does the body figure for such writers as both a threat and a source of hope, a sense of possibility and a limitation? What reconfigurations of language and aesthetic form are required to capture power and reconfigure our relationship to it? Readings span the Romantic era to the present and may include texts by Caroline von Günderrode, Gabriele Reuter, Christa Wolf and Elfriede Jelinek. In addition to placing the writings in their historical background, the course introduces students to key concepts in feminist and literary theory. Silke von der Emde.
Prerequisite(s): GERM 260 or GERM 270 or the equivalent.
Two 75-minute periods.
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