CLGR G4110x. Literature and Psychoanalysis: Freud [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Freud and Jung, perhaps the two most important psychoanalysts of the last century, represent opposite poles of modern thought. Whereas Freud, at least on the official view, was a partisan of the enlightenment values of rationalism, secularism and science, Jung advocated a return to myth as a way of curing the ills of the modern soul. In this course we will not only examine the debate between the two men in its own right, but also in terms of the larger cultural questions that it encompasses. As befits the study of two psychoanalysts, we will look at the interaction between their personal relationship and their thinking. Readings will include major works of Freud and Jung, their correspondence and selected secondary sources.

CLGR W4123. Faust: German Myth In European Context. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Readings in English or original language. The literary and historical transformations of the myth from the Chapbook and Marlowe (Faust as Renaissance man) via Lessing and Goethe (Faust as paradigm of modernity) to Valéry, Klaus Mann, and Thomas Mann (Faust as modernist artist).

CLYD W4150y. The Horror Story: Between Jews and Others (in English). 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Through an analysis of far-flung examples of horror literature written by both Jews and non-Jews, this course will attempt to answer the following questions: is there such a thing as specifically Jewish horror, and, if so, what is it? How do Jewish conceptions of the supernatural develop, and how do they influence - or are they influenced by - other developments in non-Jewish history and literature? How do Jews function as horrific others in non-Jewish literature - and vice-versa? And finally, how does history (particularly Jewish history) function in shaping the contours of horrific literature? Works and authors read include selections from Genesis and Samuel, Jewish Apocrypha, midrashic collections, medieval Yiddish demon stories, Hasidic tales, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sholem Aleichem, Edgar Allan Poe, I.B. Singer, Franz Kafka, H. P. Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges, Nathan Englander, and Stephen King.

CLYD W4200. American Jewish literature: a survey (in English). 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

In examining the work of some of the greatest Jewish writers to live in America - writers in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish, some well known, some less so - this course hopes to answer several related questions. How are the changing fortunes of American Jews reflected in their literary creativity? How does Jewish multilingualism - not only seen in different works, but within the same work - affect modes and styles of Jewish writing? And, perhaps most importantly, how does one define American Jewish writing in an age of increasingly complex affiliations and identifications among American Jews? Novelists, short story writers, poets, and playwrights read include Sholem Aleichem, Anzia Yezierska, Henry Roth, Sholem Asch, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Jacob Glatstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Paley, and Tony Kushner.

CLGR W4202. Theories of Modern Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Major critical texts that define the parameters of early modernity from the mid-19th century to WW I. Marx, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud, and the young Lukács.

CLGR W4212. The Discourse of Postmodernism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Lectures in English. Readings in original language or English. Major critical and theoretical texts by authors who have attempted to theorize contemporary culture as distinct from high modernism and the historical avant-garde. Developments in France, Germany and the United States since the late 1950s. Barthes, Lyotard, Foucault, Baudrillard, Habermas, Bürger, Sontag, Fiedler, Venturi, McLuhan, deLauretis, Jameson.

CLGR W4215x. Spirits and Ghosts From Kant To Marx (In English). 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This class will explore interrelations of German idealism, the gothic novel and the magic lantern's phantasmagoria. Specific attention will be paid to how the philosophical theories of Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Marx draw upon a lively debate about ghostly apparitions while simultaneiously commenting upon contemporary visual media. Readings include texts by Kant, Walpole, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and Marx.

CLGR G4220x. Formalism and History. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course will reconstruct and discuss Russian Formalism (Eichenbaum, Tynyanov), Structuralism (Mukaøovský, Jacobson, Barthes), Reception Theory (Jauss), Poststructuralism (Foucault), Deconstruction (de Man, Derrida), New Historicism (Greenblatt), Postcolonial Theory (Said, Bhabha), Critical Theory (Benjamin, Adorno, Habermas), Systems Theory (Luhmann).

CLGR W4237. The Culture of Memory [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Focus on the postmodernism debate since the 1980s. Analysis of phenomena from film, literature, and painting to architecture, monuments, and museums that mark the contemporary obsessions with memory and amnesia in Germany, France, and the U.S.

CLSW G4240x. Sex and gender in 19th Century Scandinavian literature. 3 pts.

Textual investigation of Scandinavia's literary golden age in terms of the sexual and gender controversies of the day. Emphasis on key texts of the Modern Breakthrough, with its Double Standard Debate, a fascinating chapter of Scandinavian literary and social history.

GERM G4250y. Aesthetics and the Philosophy of History (in English). 3 pts.

This course offers an introduction to key texts of 18th and 19th century philosophy with a particular emphasis on the competition between a philosophy of art or aesthetics in a broader sense, on the one hand, and a philosophy of history, on the other. What is the social function of art, are there a-historical standards for the beautiful and the sublime?, what do we mean by taste?, on what basis do we compare different civilizations?, different historical periods?, how do we talk about progress? What constitutes human freedom?

CLGR W4267y. The Holocaust In German and American Culture (In English). 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

A comparative introduction to the place of the Holocaust in American and German culture since the end of World War II. Drawing on literary texts, films, and museum exhibitions, the course will examine the very different ways in which Germany-the nation of perpetrators-and the United States-the nation of liberators--have responded to the Holocaust as part of their own efforts at self-definition. All readings, screenings and discussion in English.

CLSW W4270y. Scandinavian Folklore and Folklife (in English). 3 pts.

The course offers an introduction to Scandinavian folklore and folklife. The emphasis is on oral narratives, supernatural beliefs, and material culture in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but we will also consider contemporary legends and the folklore of Scandinavian immigrants to America and of immigrants to Scandinavia.

CLSW W4300x. Ibsen and Strindberg. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Introduction to the works of Scandinavia's two key 19th century writers, tracing their progression through realism and naturalism to expressionism in terms of the sociohistorical setting. Students competent in Norwegian and/or Swedish are encouraged to read texts in the original.

CLGR W4315. The Myth of the Machine In Modern Literature. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Analysis of representations of the machine and the man/machine constellation in 20th century German, Russian, and English texts. H.G. Wells, Kafka, Kaiser, Fritz Lang, Gladkov, Ehrenburg, Frisch, Christa Wolf, Heiner Müller, Ursula LeGuin and Pynchon. The myth of the machine explored historically and theoretically as one of the central myths of the age of modernity.

CLGR W4320. The Semiotics of Fashion From Sentimentalism To Romanticism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The relationship between European fashion and literature in the 18th and 19th centuries. Analysis of paintings, early fashion journals, travelogues, lyric poetry and prose fiction. An introduction to French, English and German fashion history; contemporary semiotic and sociological theories on fashion and consumer culture.

CLGR W4360. Faust and Media [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The relationship between Faust and media, in particular, visual media. Authors include Marlowe, Goethe, Robert Browning, Gounod, Murnau, and Thomas Mann, and related critical theory.

CLGR W4395. Opera and the Idea of Nation. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

No technical knowledge of music or German required. Screening and discussion of four operas- Mozart's Magic Flute, Weber's Freischutz, Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, and Wagner's Meistersinger-with regard to debates on national identity; examples from French and Italian opera.

CLGR W4404. Women and Fiction. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Lectures in English. Readings in original language or English. Theory of culture, theory of society, the ensemble of symbolic systems-art, religion, family, language-and women's (and man's) presence in these systems. Plato, Saint Augustine, Rousseau, Engels, Nietzsche, and Freud as well as Virginia Woolf, de Beauvoir, Irigaray, Kristeva, and Christa Wolf.

CLGR G4410x. Freud (in English). 3 pts.

CLGR W4455y. Lyric Poetry and Theories of Translation [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course will look at lyric poetry in relation to theories of translation.

CLGR G4470y. What Went Wrong? - The Critique of Religion Reconsidered. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Until recently, "the secularization thesis" seemed to be so self-evident to most modern philosophers and social scientists that it was rarely questioned or empirically test. History itself, however, seems to have delivered its own dramatic refutation of the secularization process, leading to a widespread reevaluation of the original thesis. In this class, we will consider some of the classical secularists texts (Feuerbach, Marx and Freud) as well as some contemporary authors (Casanova, Derrida and Habermas) to try and understand the "re-secularization of the world."

CLGR W4500. Introduction To Cultural Studies [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. An introductory survey of theoretical texts that define cultural studies as an academic discipline. Considers alternatives to the base/superstructure model for explaining the operation of power within culture.

CLGR W4550. Material Culture [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

CLGR W4575y. Philosophy and Religious Discourse After Hegel (In English). 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

One of the aims of Hegel's project was to provide a philosophical "translation" of religious - and in particular: Christian - insights, so that the ethical and motivational resources of the religious tradition could be preserved in a society which tends to privatize faith and cast doubt on specific sources of revelation. However, since Hegel's death, a long line of thinkers have challenged the success of Hegel's translation programme, raising anew the question of how a philosophically-oriented diagnosis of modernity should relate to, and possibly draw on, the resources of religious discourse, without surrendering its own autonomy as a mode of reflection. This course will trace the discussion of this issue through a sequence of 19th and 20th century thinkers, from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, to Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Heidegger, Ricoeur and Levinas.

CLSW W4735y. Social Change In Scandinavian Literature (In English). 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Readings and discussions in English. (Students competent in Scandinavian languages are encouraged to read in the original). An exploration of Scandinavia's twentieth-century transformations reflected in writing. Readings (in English) include Hamsun, Södergran, Nexø, Boye, Ditlevsen, Ekelöf, Lagerkvist, Martinsson, Jersild, Enquist, Tikkanen, Brantenberg, and Ekman.

CLGR G4740y. Enlightenment and Religion (in English). 3 pts.

Recent research in the area of eighteenth-century studies has come to the conclusion that the historical period known as the Enlightenment cannot be adequately understood merely in its opposition to religion as a form of irrationality and superstition. Quite to the contrary, the discussion of religion constitutes an important aspect of an Enlightenment philosophy of culture. In this course we shall read prominent texts by Enlightenment philosophers addressing religion. We shall analyze how philosophers and critics committed to the Enlightenment viewed religion critically, but also how they pursued models for religious tolerance, how they dealt with religion as an integral part of any historical culture, and how they viewed the tensions between different belief systems, between professed creed and ethical systems, between dogma and practice, between institutional religion and privately held beliefs.

CLSW W4740. Sex and Gender In 19th Century Scandinavian Literature. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Readings in original language or in English. Scandinavia's literary golden age in terms of the sexual and gender controversies of the day. Emphasis on key texts of the modern breakthrough, including writings by Strindberg, Ibsen, Brandes, Benedictsson, Skram, Leffler, Kieler, and others.

CLGR G6012. History of the Theory of Rhetoric. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Exploration of the relationship between rhetoric and hermeneutics (Gadamer), rhetoric and semiotics (Barthes), rhetoric and deconstruction (de Man), rhetoric and argumentation theory (Perelman), rhetoric and law (Fish), and rhetoric and theories of probability (Meyer). Comparison of different approaches and outline of rhetorical dimensions within literary criticism itself.

CLGR G6120. Cultural Programs and Practices In Rousseau and Goethe. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Central texts of Goethe and Rousseau in view of how these two writers participated in the crucial transformations of subjectivity postulated in Emile and Lettre à M. d'Alembert and set into practice in the new epistolary novel (Julie, Werther) or the Bildungsroman, Wilhelm Meister.

CLGR G6230y. Phenomenology, Literature and Ethics [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

CLGR G6408. 18th Century Semiotics and Aesthetics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The 18th century texts concerned with language, representation and the function of art and of aesthetic theories as programs for the formation of subjectivity in language especially where the thresholds of representation are at stake, (the body, violence, or in terms of the ugly, disgusting, horrible and sublime). Readings in original or translation, includes texts by Condillac, Diderot, Rousseau, Burke, Lessing, Kant, Schiller.

CLGR G6510. Theories of Enlightenment. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Rigorous introduction to the pragmatics of Enlightenment theory and practice. Readings include: Bacon, Spinoza, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Kant, Marx, Freud, Horkheimer and Adorno, Habermas, Foucault, Derrida. Readings in original or translation.

CLGR G6530. The Romantic Fantastic. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Analysis of 19th century fantastic prose (Cazotte, Tieck, Hoffman, Shelley, Hagg, Nodier, Balzac, Gotthelf, Poe). Focus on madness, criminality, sexuality, perversion, and freedom. Genre poetics and the role of psychoanalytic and narratological concepts.

CLGR G6740x. Enlightenment and Religion [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

CLGR G6750. The Politics of Dramatic Form. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Three canonical figures of 20th-century European drama: Brecht, Beckett, and Müller. The politics of dramatic form explored in terms of a text/performance dialectic as well as in close consideration of historical context. Other plays, 20th century European.

CLGR G6820y. Theory and History of Media (in English). 3 pts.

This course will examine the theory and history of media.

FINN W4100y. Lexicon: Meaning and Society [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Knowledge of Finnish is not required. Investigating the lexicon in its cultural and societal context. Analysis of word formation processes, affective vocabulary, derivation, neologisms. Languages in contact; lexical reflections of new phenomena. Exploring cultural idiomaticity in selected semantic domains; role of lexical choice in social interaction. Contrastive data drawn from Finnish (a Uralic, non-Indo-European language surrounded by Indo-European languages), and from English, German, Swedish, and other languages. Students are encouraged to work on lexical data from their strongest languages.

FINN W4116. Advanced Reading In Finnish. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Prerequisite: three years of Finnish or the equivalent, and instructor's permission. Extensive reading of selected works by 19th-century and 20th-century writers and poets: Aleksis Kivi, Eino Leino, Maria Jotuni, F.E. Sillanpää, Juha Mannerkorpi, Väinö Linna, Veijo Meri, Paavo Haavikko, Eeva-Liisa Manner, and Pentti Saarikoski.

FINN W4206x. Introduction To Finnish Culture and Society. 3 pts.

Knowledge of Finnish not required; lectures and discussions in English, readings in English or in Finnish. Explorations of Finnish cultural and social issues through literature in translation and film, documentary footage and feature films, as well as lectures. Focus on the role of women: women in Finland received the right to vote in 1906, the first country in Europe. Currently, the President of the Republic, many cabinet members and parliamentarians, as well as leaders in the arts are women. Contemporary Finland in the world, the EU and the Nordic context. Roots and structure of the Finnish language; reflections of contacts with adjacent cultures and languages.

FINN W4212y. The Kalevala, the Kanteletar and Finnish Folklore [in English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Knowledge of Finnish is not required. Discussions in English, readings in English or Finnish. Ancient Finnish mythology and oral tradition in the light of the 19th century texts of the Kalevala and the Kanteletar, as well as primary texts of Finnish folklore. Shamanism, origin charms, epic and lyric poetry; women's and men's oral tradition. Reflections in subsequent Finnish culture.

FINN W4445. Advanced Readings In Finnish. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Close reading of selected works in contemporary Finnish literature.

FINN G6311x. The Structure of Finnish. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

In English, knowledge of Finnish is not a prerequisite. Recommended for students of linguistics and students of Finnish. Exploration of Finnish phonology, morphology, derivational processes, lexicon and syntax. Analysis of morphologic and semantic structure in the lexicon. Lectures and discussion in English, readings in English or Finnish.Phonology, morphology, derivation, syntax.

FINN G6412. History of the Finnish Language. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Comparison and internal reconstruction. Sounds, shapes, loanwords, meanings.

FINN G9101-G9102. Seminar In Finnish Language and Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

May be repeated for credit.

GERM G4000x. Foreign Language Pedagogy. 3 pts.

Registration is by permission of foreign language departments only. Designed to offer training in foreign language pedagogy to teaching assistants (TAs) in the foreign language departments.

GERM W4090y. German for International and Public Affairs [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Prerequisite: GERM V1202 or the equivalent, or placement by the departmental representative. In-depth readings and discussions of contemporary German events in three broad areas: domestic German politics, European Union, and international/public affairs. Working mostly with newspapers, magazines and journals, the course follows and interprets contemporary German political life as it happens.

GERM W4092. Business German [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Prerequisites: GERM F1202 or the equivalent, or placement by departmental representative. Preparation for the business-minded student who plans to engage in German business dealings professionally. Introduces students to the German language of everyday business and gives an insight into Germany's place in the European and World Market.

GERM W4125. Drama of the French Revolution [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The course will examine drama of the French Revolution.

GERM W4138. Novels of the German Romantics [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Prerequisite: reading knowledge of German. A number of the most important German Romantic novels written in the first two decades of the 19th century, concentrating on their place in the changing literary institution of the period, their relation to broader trends in the development of the European novel, and contemporary theoretical debates.

GERM W4200. Modern German Intellectual History [in English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

A critical introduction to the main themes and strategies of modern German intellectual history from the 18th century to the present. Kant, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Hegel, Feuerbach, Heine, Schopenhauer, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Adorno.

GERM W4201. German Literature In the Classical Period [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The progress of literary movements and tendencies during the second half of the 18th century. Interpretations of the great writers from Klopstock to Schiller in their relation to the development of humanistic ideals in Germany.

GERM G4214. German Romanticism [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The Romantic period from its philosophical beginnings through the early and late stages and concluding with Heine as a theoretical figure. Selections from Novalis, Friedrich Schlegel, Brentano, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Eichendorff.

GERM G4230. Realism In German Literature (1830-1900) [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

A survey of a number of literary movements, including Biedermeier, Junges Deutschland, Vormárz, and poetic bourgeois Realism. Selections from Heine, Herwegh, Grillparzer, Stifter, Mörike, Keller, Storm, Meyer, Raabe, and Fontane.

GERM G4235. German Literature At the Turn of the Century. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

A study of the representative works of Naturalism, Impressionism, Neo-Romanticism, Fin-de-síecle Vienna, and Expressionism in relation to their historical and cultural background. Works by G. Hauptmann, H.V. Hofmannsthal, A. Schnitzler, F. Wedekind, R.M. Rilke, H. Mann, G. Kaiser, W. Hasenclever.

GERM W4242. Fascism and After: German Literature and Culture After 1945 [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Readings in German or English. Analysis of representative works and trends in German literature from 1945 to the present. Focus on Böll, Grass, Frisch, Handke, Peter Weiss, Christa Wolf, Anselm Kiefer, and the Historikerstreit.

GERM W4260. Current Literary and Cultural Trends In Germany [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Major literary and cultural trends since the late 1960s, including the novel of the student movement, the new subjectivity, women's literature, ecological poetry, and Gastarbeiterliteratur. Alexander Kluge, Peter Handke, Peter Schneider, Botho Strauss, Elfriede Jelinek, Ingeborg Bachmann, Günter Wallraff, Heiner Müller, and Christa Wolf.

GERM W4265x. Divided Selves: Jews In Modern German Culture (In English). 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course will examine the contested notion of a 'German-Jewish symbiosis' in German literature and culture from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust. Works by Salomon Maimon, Fichte, Chamisso, Meyerbeer, Heine, Auerbach, Kafka, Benjamin and Scholem.

GERM G4310. German Poetry: Celan [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

GERM G4430. Goethe and Myth [in English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course is designed to introduce graduate and advanced undergraduate students to central writings from Goethe's early through late oeuvre that engage myth and mythographic traditions.

GERM G4432. Hölderlin [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Hölderlin's elegies and hymns and his novel Hyperion, with special attention to his theoretical writings and philosphical background (Hegel).

GERM W4435y. The Beginning of Modern Drama: Kleist, Grabbe, Büchner [In German]. 3 pts.

The dramas of Kleist, Grabbe, and Büchner, with their anti-universalist emphasis on the moment and discontinuity, as paradigms of modern dramatic practices.

GERM W4437. Thomas Mann: Art and Politics In the 20th Century [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

A study of Thomas Mann's major novellas and essays on art, philosophy, and politics and an examination of the relationships between them. Emphasis is on the author's literary development from the apolitical aestheticism of fin de siècle decadence to the advocacy of Weimar democracy to the cultural, critical analysis of fascism.

GERM W4440. The Legacy of Nietzsche [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Literary and epistemological strategies Nietzsche employs to mount his critique of society. Specific problems of 19th century culture that resurface in Nietzsche's attempt at radicalizing culture criticism and that reveal hidden key assumptions of 19th-century German culture.

GERM W4445. Brecht [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Study of Brecht as poet and songwriter, playwright, filmmaker, and theorist of the historical avant-garde of the interwar years. The emergence of the epic theatre in the context of Weimar culture, fascism, and exile.

GERM W4515. Women In German Literature [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Women authors (Caroline and Dorothea Schlegel, Günderrode, Arnim, et al.) within their historical contexts in German classicism and romanticism shall be contrasted with male notions of femininity (Goethe, Schiller, Kant, Schlegel). The course will explore how women's writing can present a challenge to literary history and aesthetics.

GERM W4520. Contemporary Women Authors [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Introduction to women's literature in Germany from the 1970s to the present. Focus on gender identity, female experience, narrative strategies, and female pathologies. Literary readings include Reinig, Beig, Wolf, Drewitz, Bachmann, Jelinek, Kirsch, Stefan, Morgner. Theoretical texts by Butler, Irigaray, Kristeva, Elshtain, Makward, Bovenschen.

GERM G4630x. Theories of Modernity [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

General theories of modernity in the social sciences (Marx, Weber, Habermas, Luhmann) in their relationship to aesthetic theories of modernism (Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Adorno, Bürger, Bohrer).

GERM G4650. Nietzsche (in English). 3 pts.

GERM W4655. German Film and Nation [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Study of paradigmatic German films as historical narratives that shape and construct collective memory, gendered mythologies, and national identity. Includes Weimar film, Nazi film and the New German Cinema from Fassbinder to Helke Sander's recent film about rape in WW II.

GERM W4750x. Contemporary German literature [in German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Focusing on German literature since 1989, this course will address such topics as: literature and politics; German reunification and nostalgia; multiculturalism and migrant literature; 'Germans and Jews'. Authors discussed will include Christa Wolf, Durs Grünbein, Judith Hermann, Karin Duve, Zafer Senocak, Wladimir Kaminer, Raphael Seligman, and W. G. Sebald.

GERM G6104. Lessing, Enlightenment and Sturm and Drang [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Literature and literary theory in Germany in the mid- to late-18th century. Analysis of works by Lessing, Klopstock, Herder, Lenz, Klinger, and early works of Goethe and Schiller.

GERM G6105x. The Discourse of Crisis, I: Schiller To Nietzsche. 3 pts.

This course reconstructs discourses of crisis. The reading includes theoretical and poetical texts (Schiller, Fr. Schegel, Fichte, Kleist, Büchner, Marx/Engels, Nietzsche).

GERM G6106. The Discourse of Crisis, II: 1930-1933. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course ties to analyze the discourse of crisis at the end of the Weimar Republic. The reading list includes Brecht, Döblin, Jaspers, Spengler, H. Mann, Schmitt, Hitler, Benn, Jünger, Johst, Heidegger, Benjamin.

GERM G6109. Realist Fictions [In German]. 3 pts.

Narrative texts, examined with regard to theories of realism since 1848. Readings include: Keller, Fontane, Raabe, Storm, Brecht, Kluge, Weiss.

GERM G6130. Heinrich Von Kleist [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Reading of major novellas, plays and essays by Kleist in original or translation. Main focus on order, transgression and chance: the intersections of poetics and history.

GERM G6142. Literature and Empire [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Transformation of literary life in the Wilhelmine period with a focus on the interrelation between aesthetic programs (naturalism, symbolism, bohemian counter-culture, expressionism) and sociopolitical change since the establishment of the German Empire in 1871. Fontane, Hauptmann, Nietzsche, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Stefan George, Wedekind, and others.

GERM G6146. Kafka and Fin De Siècle Culture. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Good knowledge of Kafka's writings required. Beginning with the major allegorical and existential readings of Kafka (Benjamin, Camus, Arendt), the seminar explores Kafka's relationship to key figures of the German Jahrhundertwende: Freud, Kraus, Weininger, Mann, Buber, Walser.

GERM G6150y. Modernist Novel [In German]. 3 pts.

Study of selected novels, novellas, and experimental prose texts from the late-19th century to the 1950s. Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, Rilke, Musil, Broch, Jahnn, Th. Mann, Benn, Döblin, Einstein, Koeppen, Weiss.

GERM G6170. Adorno's Ethics. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This seminar will take the form of a comparative reading of Adorno's Negative Dialectics, and his recently published lecture course, Problems of Moral Philosophy. The aim will be to explore how Adorno reformulates the task of ethical reflection, or what stance, in general, he takes towards normative thinking, in response to the moral catastrophes of the twentieth century.

GERM G6180. Pleasure Principles and Death Drives In Austrian Literature [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Beginning with Freud's discussion of the death drive and pleasure principle in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, the course explores the literary figuration and theory of death and pleasure in the work of four major contemporary Austrian novelists: Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Elfriede Jelinek and Gert Jonke.

GERM G6185. The Discourse of Literary Theory [In German]. 3 pts.

Close reading of central texts in modern literary theory. Relationships among the dominant concepts in modern literary theory (psychoanalysis, Marxism, Russian formalism, structuralism, feminism, poststructuralism) and to situate those concepts within the broader context of modern intellectual history. Saussure, Lukács, Benjamin, Jauss, Shklovsky, Jakobson, Bakhtin, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Foucault, Freud, Lacan, Derrida, Kristeva, and Spivak.

GERM G6550. Postwar Austrian Literature [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Major contemporary Austrian authors and their representations of fascism. Bachmann, Bernhard, Jelinek and others.

GERM G6560x. Postwar German Culture: '45, '68, '89.

The course will focus on selected literary and critical texts to be read in the context of significant dates of German cultural developments: 1945, 1959, 1968, 1989 and after. A final selection from the following authors will be made later this summer: Andersch, Koeppen, Johnson, Bachmann, Kluge, Hildesheimer, Weiss, Wolff, Bernhard, Handke, Ransmayr, Beyer, Senocak, Özdamar, Tawada. The literary texts will be supplemented by some key essays by Heidegger, Benn, Adorno, Enzensberger, Bohrer, Sloterdijk, et al.

GERM G8121x. Proseminar: Aufkl. Literatur und Öffentlichkeitsmodelle [in German]. 3 pts.

GERM G8122y. Proseminar: Modernist Prose [in German]. 3 pts.

GERM G8130. Conceptions of Poetic Languages [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Conceptions of poetic language from the 18th century to Adorno, using both systematic and historical approaches. Hamann, Herder, Humboldt, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Benjamin and Adorno.

GERM G8140. Nietzsche [In German]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

GERM G8501x-G8502y. Guided Reading and Research. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

GERM G9001. Seminar. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

CLSW W4260. Scandinavian Drama and Film [In English]. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

A review and analysis of outstanding Scandinavian contributions to the genres of drama and film, from the beginnings of the Danish theatre in the 1700s through Ibsen and Strindberg in the 19th century up to recent cinematic works. (Students competent in Scandinavian languages are encouraged to read literature in the original.)

YIDD W4101. Introduction To Yiddish Studies. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The study of Ashkenazic Jewish culture from its beginnings to the present day. Research tools; written and oral sources; trends in scholarship; scope of the field.

YIDD W4310. The Ethnography of Contemporary Jewish Life. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The ethnographic study of the social and religious activities of Yiddish-speaking Jews and their descendants. From the major writings and films of anthropologists and sociologists, as well as from the students' own fieldwork, the class will attempt to understand the meaning that Jewish people derive from their beliefs, rituals and institutions.

YIDD G4550y. The Theater of Yiddish [In English]. 3 pts.

This course addresses Yiddish theater on stage and in everyday life. Students will read Yiddish comedies, drawing-room dramas and operettas from the early days of the modern Yiddish theater in Eastern Europe to New York's Second Avenue of the 1910s and 20s. Alongside the plays we will read memoirs and fiction that depict theater or invoke performance. To frame our discussion we will investigate notions of "theater" and "performance" as they have gained currency in the fields of literature, theater, linguistics and anthropology. How are these concepts particularly (and not particularly) relevant to Yiddish culture? Is Yiddish, for example, a "dramatic" language? Were its speakers inclined to the theatrical? Students will become acquainted with many of the great pieces of the modern Yiddish theater, and its basic history. We will also consider examples of performance in daily Eastern European Jewish life and how these are reflected in the texts (dramatic and otherwise) under consideration.

YIDD G8310. Topics In the Social History of Yiddish Culture. 3 pts. Trends in literature, theater, music, the press and religious study and observance. Emphasis on the politics and social differentiation of the use of and access to various cultural elements. May be repeated for credit.

YIDD G8565. Colloquium On the Popular Religion of Ashkenazic Jewry, 1600-1800. 3 pts. Addresses the problem of how the popular religion of Ashkenazic Jews in the early modern period can be studied. Surveys and analyzes the theoretical literature on popular religion, the major genres and works of Jewish popular religion between 1600 and 1800 will be analyzed in detail.

YIDD G9501. Guided Research. 3 pts.

YIDD G9502. Seminar In Yiddish: Early Modern. 3 pts.