Kafka and Viennese Modernism
GRST 383
Spring 2007 not offered
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This course will focus on a relatively neglected but important framework for understanding Kafka's work in context: Viennese Modernism. Readings will explore analogies and interactions related to literary impressionism (Altenberg), psychoanalysis and its early literary applications (Freud, Rank, Stekel, Wittels), satire and aphoristic form (Karl Kraus), anti-ornamentalism and classical form (the polemical essays of the architect Adolf Loos), expressionist art (Kokoschka, Kubin, Schiele, Gerstl), and cinema (THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI). |
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Essential Capabilities:
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA GRST |
| Course Format: Lecture/Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: GRST214 OR GRST217 OR (WUPG251 AND [WUPG252 or GERM252]) |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (GRST-MN) |
Major Readings:
Kafka, "Beschreibung eines Kampfes"; "Das Urteil"; "Die Verwandlung"; "Ein Bericht fuer eine Akademie"; "Ein Hungerkuenstler"; "Josephine die Saengerin, oder das Volk der Maeuse"; "Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer" Peter Altenberg, "Parabel"; "Der Affe Peter"; "Eine Hungerkuenstlerin" Sigmund Freud, DREI ABHANDLUNGEN ZUR SEXUALTHEORIE and other writings Oskar Kokoschka, DIE TRAEUMENDEN KNABEN; MOERDER, HOFFNUNG DER FRAUEN Karl Kraus, "Er ist doch e Jud"; "Heine und die Folgen"; "Aphorisms"; LITERATUR Adolf Loos, "Ornament und Verbrechen" and other essays DAS KABINETT DES DR. CALIGARI (film) Mark Anderson, KAFKA'S CLOTHES Sander L. Gilman, KAFKA THE PATIENT
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Examinations and Assignments:
Four short papers; one research paper or final examination. |
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