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Preference to freshmen. Roots of Wagner's operatic cycle and Tolkien's epic trilogy in a common core of Norse, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon mythology. The role of musical motive and characterization in Wagner's music dramas and the film version of Tolkien's trilogy. Music as a key element in the psychological, political, and cultural revision of ancient myth in modern opera and film.

A consideration of Nietzsche's claim that God is dead in relation to other texts of German literature and philosophy. The status of religious faith in relation to modernity and secularization; religion and science; culture and faith. Readings in German include selections from sacred and liturgical texts; fictional depictions of religious experience; religion in poetry; German theories of religion. Authors to be studied include Rilke, Hesse, Weiss, Schöder, Buber, Sachs, Haecker, Weber, Taubes, Ratzinger.

This seminar examines the cultural and literary significance of fin de siécle Vienna¿s most enduring symbol: the Coffeehouse. What was the function of the café in aesthetic, literary and political debates central to Vienna at the turn of the century? How did coffeehouse and newspaper culture influence developments in modernist prose? Texts by Hermann Bahr, Arthur Schnitzler, Karl Kraus, Peter Altenberg, Felix Salten, Sigmund Freud, Egon Friedell and Alfred Polgar, in English translation, original German texts available upon request.

Preference to freshmen. Historical, biographical, linguistic, and literary look at the Kinder- and Hausmärchen of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Readings from the fairy tales, plus materials in other media such as film and the visual arts. Small group performances of dramatized fairy tales. In German. Prerequisite: GERLANG 3 or equivalent.

From ghost children and animated statues, the walking dead to machine women and doppelgangers, 19th-century German literature teems with things that go bump in the night. The history of this tradition of fantastic literature in Germany, its origins, main authors, and defining features. Authors include E.T.A. Hoffmann, Wilhelm Hauff, Friedrich Schiller, Joseph von Eichendorff and Jeremias Gotthelf. Readings and writing in German.

This course charts the history of the German ballad, from Goethe and Schiller, to Romantic and Realist poets - additional reading will attempt to contextualize the German ballad in the European context. Musical ballads and song arrangements will also be considered.

Authors such as Kleist, Eichendorff, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Goethe, Keller, Fontane, and Thomas Mann. Focus is on structural-textual elements such as event, situation, conflict, symbol, and turning point as well as questions concerning order, chaos, contingency, the relation between fiction and reality, and ostracism. Readings in German include novellas such as Das Erdbeben in Chili, Das Marmorbild, Mario und der Zauberer, Traumnovelle, Die Taube, Im Krebsgang.

Bertolt Brecht's poetic and dramatic works, and analysis of his contribution to modern paradigms of poetic and dramatic practice. Readings in German include poetry, dramas such as Baal, Im Dickicht der Staedte, Die Dreigroschenoper, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, and theoretical writings on lyric poetry and drama.

Introduction to Goethe¿s major works, reading across genres of poetry, drama, the novel, and autobiography; critical writings on art, nature, and aesthetics. Central trends in Goethe¿s thought; the interrelatedness of poetic vision and philosophical thinking in his works. Goethe in relation to other intellectual and philosophical movements of the period, including romanticism.