Topics vary from year to year. Recent offerings include The Literature of Leadership, Autobiography, Faust in Music and Literature, and Weimar Culture. In addition to developing an undrstanding of Woolf's artistic work, we will use her writing as a way of approaching European cultural concerns fromthe late nineteenth century through the First and Second World Wars, and also as a way of raising questions about our contemporary social situation. In addition to the final, course reqquirements include two 5-page papers discussion. This seminar will begin with an introduction to twentieth century German history, and will then investigate Weimar's contributions to the arts in terms of this historical context.
Attendance is required.
Readings and course meetings will be in Englis, although German credit is available for those who wish German.