Its purpose is to help students become conversant with major trends in literary theory and to increase their familiarity with recent intellectual movements relevant to the study of literature. NOT writing intensive. Also a basic introduction to German culture. Open to only the beginner, except by permission of instructor. Barry Using writing and discussion as a mode of exploration, students will analyze texts from the last century and examine issues characterizing German history and culture.
Students work a great deal with primary tests.
The course incorporates tools of stylistic analysis and an intensive grammar review. German 112, or demonstration of equivalent competency. Barry Survey of the literary monuments of the German Enlightenment, German Classicism, and Romanticism. This course explores the tradition of European literary criticism and how continental philosophy, linguistics, and other discipline have influenced thinking about literature since the Enlightenment. Its purpose is to help students become conversant with major trends in literary theory and to increase their familiarity with recent intellectual movements relevant to the study of literature.