For graduate students from other departments who need to acquire a reading knowledge of German. Not open to graduate students in German. Major periods and trends from the beginning to the present. Special attention to structural similarities and differences of German and English. Contemporary feminist theories address construction of subject-position in film, both from point of production and consumption.
Analytical texts draw from new historicism, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism.
Focus on literary criticism and methodology. Different theoretical approaches to literature and research techniques. Analysis of individual plays and theoretical texts. Special attention to developments in culture, aesthetics, and society. Analysis of literary works from theater, cabaret, and cinema within context of social and political life of the Weimar Republic.