COURSE SCHEDULE

 


week 1 | week 2 | week 3 | week 4 | week 5 | week 6 | week 7
week 8 | week 9 | week 10 | week 11 | week 12 | week 13 | week 14 | week 15

ERES = Availabe from the Electronic Reserve System at Washington University.
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Week 1
Tu 1/17
  • Introduction
Th 1/19
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities (19-151)
Week 2
Tu 1/24
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities (155-300)
Th 1/26
  • Heinrich von Kleist, "The Earthquake in Chili"
Week 3
Tu 1/31
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann, "The Sandman"
Th 2/2
  • Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny (121-162)
Week 4
Tu 2/7
  • Karl Marx, "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844" (13-52; 69-92; 135-140)
  • Karl Marx, "The Communist Manifesto"
Th 2/9
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy (1-117)
Week 5
Tu 2/13
  • Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems [ERES]
Th 2/15
  • Thomas Mann, "Death in Venice"
Week 6
Tu 2/20
  • Thomas Mann, "Mario and the Magician"
Th 2/22
  • Franz Kafka, "The Judgment"
  • ESSAY 1 DUE
Week 7
Tu 2/28
  • Franz Kafka, "Penal Colony"
Th 3/2
  • Irmgard Keun, The Artificial Silk Girl (1-82)
Week 8
Tu 3/7
  • MIDTERM EXAM
Th 3/9
  • Irmgard Keun, The Artificial Silk Girl (82-192)
Week 9 : Spring Break
Week 10
Tu 3/21
  • Bertolt Brecht, Threepenny Opera (1-56)
Th 3/23
  • No Class (German Day)
Week 11
Tu 3/28
  • Bertolt Brecht, Threepenny Opera (57-105)
  • Walter Benjamin, "The Storyteller" [ERES]
  • Adolf Hitler, "Speech on the Opeing of the House of German Art" [ERES]
Th 3/30
  • No class
Week 12
Tu 4/4
  • Heinrich Böll, "The Train was on Time"
Th 4/6
  • Christa Wolf, Cassandra (3-82)
Week 13
Tu 4/11
  • Christa Wolf, Cassandra (82-138)
Th 4/13
  • Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher (3-149)
Week 14
Tu 4/18
  • Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher (149-280)
Th 4/20
  • W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz (1-50)
  • ESSAY 2 DUE
Week 15
Tu 4/25
  • W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz (50-200)
Th 4/27
  • W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz (200-298)
  • Final Discussion