2015-2016 Catalog

GERM 312 German Texts and Contexts: Bridging the Gap from Language to Literature

This course critically examines diverse readings in German poetry, prose, and drama of the previous two centuries with a focus on critical analysis of contextual meaning and the structure of literary texts. Introduction to literary terminology and techniques of interpretation. Literature as a reflection of Zeitgeist (social taste or the characteristic spirit of the times) that gave form to the cultural outlook of an epoch or generation). [GM1, H]

Instructor

Lamb-Faffelberger, McDonald