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Nov 21, 2024
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College Bulletin 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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GMST 091. German Short Fiction (Erzählungen, Novellen, Geschichten)
When the Austrian writer Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, himself an accomplished writer of stories (Erzählungen), published a collection of 19th-century German Erzählungen, he stated that he only needed to remember the most moving reading experiences of his youth to establish a long list of indelible stories written by the greatest writers of the century. The popular genre of German (short) prose fiction, characterized by thematic diversity and narrative innovation, has been flourishing in various literary movements from Goethe to the present time. In this course, we will read a great variety of prose fiction (Erzählungen, Geschichten, Novellen), from the late 18th century onward, and examine the changing narrative forms and thematic preoccupations found in these texts. Authors include: E.T.A. Hoffmann, Eichendorff, Kleist, Büchner, Keller, Gotthelf, Droste-Hülshoff, Stifter, Hebbel, Grillparzer, Kafka, Koeppen, Lenz, Bachmann, Hildesheimer, Böll, Aichinger, Lenz, and others.
Prerequisite: GMST 008 or GMST 020 .
Humanities.
1 credit.
Spring 2016. Werlen.
Spring 2017. Werlen.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies
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