GERST 3221

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GERST 3221
Lyric Poetry

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This course will 1) allow students to gain an overview of the epochs of German literary history from Weimar Classicism to the 1950s, and 2) introduce students to methods of interpretation, particularly of lyric poetry (e.g., rhyme, meter, rhetorical figures). Authors include Klopstock, Goethe, Schiller, Hölderlin, Novalis, Eichendorff, Droste-Hülshoff, Heine, Mörike, Hofmannsthal, George, Rilke, Trakl, Lasker-Schüler, Brecht, Benn, Celan, Bachmann, Sachs, Jandl. Topics include the role of poetry in philosophical discourse; the changing notions of the lyric subject; the tension between the laws of poetry and transgression of those laws.

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: any German Course at the 3000-3209 level or equivalent.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)
Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Comments Taught in German.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16371 GERST 3221   SEM 101

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