Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Modern Languages & Cultures - German
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-145125 GRMN 229-1 Kleist & Kafka Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 431 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
6 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CLTR 252A-1 (P), GRMN 229-1, GRMN 486-1
Instructors: Susan Gustafson
Description: Franz Kafka is one of Austria’s most famous and influential writers. His short prose works have had a tremendous influence on contemporary literature and cultural studies. In this course you will learn what “kafkaesque” means in its complexity. Heinrich von Kleist is less well-known in the US, but he, like Kafka, provides representations of modern bureaucratic nightmares, of blurred boundaries between reality and fantasy, ailing artists, and non-existent or idolized women.  Both authors explore the weird, dreamlike, eerie, and inexplicable nature of the world and life. This course is taught in English. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-127137 GRMN 229-1 Kleist & Kafka Spring 2022 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 431 01/12/2022 05/07/2022
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: CLTR 252A-1 (P), GRMN 229-1, GRMN 486-1
Instructors: Susan Gustafson
Description: This course explores the weird, dreamlike, eerie, and inexplicable world of Kafkas writings. In Kafkas stories dogs conduct investigations, apes report to academies, men turn into bugs, the Statue of Liberty holds up a sword, and arrests occur without explanation as all expectations and assurances about the 'rules' of existence, thought, and social order come into question. In this course we will read texts such as: The Trial, The Metamorphosis, Amerika, The Castle, Investigations of a Dog, A Report to an Academy, In the Penal Colony, and A Hunger Artist. This course is taught in English.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer