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pick one of the following questions/topics and write a response of
5-6 pages in length (double-spaced). Please do not hesitate to contact
me should you have any questions about your essay. Please submit your
essay as hard-copy. Electronic submissions are not acceptable. deadline:
4/20/06, 1 p.m.
- Discuss how at least two of our texts deal with the changing role
of
women in public life during the twentieth century.
- Compare
the representation of war and soldierly heroism in Böll’s The
Train Was on Time and Wolf’s Cassandra.
- Examine
how Brecht and Keun reflect upon the rise of modern mass
culture in their texts.
- The topic of crime and criminality appears
in several of our recent texts. Discuss how one or more of our authors
use crime to address social conditions of their time.
- Compare
and contrast the views on art/literature and its social function
as expressed in Benjamin’s “Storyteller” and Hitler’s “Speech
on the Opening of the House of German Art.”
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