Courses

Prerequisites: GERM UN3333 or the director of undergraduate studies' or the instructor's permission. This class will focus on 19th-century German literature (especially writers counted among the Romantics, the “Vormärz” and Realists) by analyzing changing concepts of art, music and literature during those times of great social and political change. We will closely read poems, pamphlets and short stories by Wackenroder, Tieck, Kleist, Hölderlin, Novalis, Brentano, Eichendorff, Heine, Büchner, Möricke, Keller, Marx, Nietzsche and Fontane.