GE 312: The Writer and Imperial Germany 1871-1918
Weekly Schedule
Time: Tuesdays 17.00-19.00, Place: H403
Term One
| Week 1 |
Lecture: Introduction: Imperial Germany: The historical, political and economic context. |
| Week 2 |
Seminar: Critiques of Wilhelmine Germany (1): Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest Seminar worksheets for Weeks 2 & 3 |
| Week 3 |
Lecture: Critiques of Wilhelmine Germany (2): Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest. |
| Week 4 |
Lecture: Biology and Genetics. The Naturalist Movement in Art and Literature [Reading distributed in week 3] |
| Week 5 |
Seminar: Critiques of Wilhelmine Germany (3): Human Agency and Determinism |
| Week 6 | Reading week |
| Week 7 | Lecture: Friedrich Nietzsche – Truth, Morality and the ‘Wille zur Macht’. Textual extracts will be provided. |
| Week 8 |
Seminar: Critiques of Wilhelmine Germany (4): Bourgeois Morality and the Quest for Female Emancipation. Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House and Gerhart Hauptmann Einsame Menschen |
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Week 9 |
Seminar: Gender, Ethics and Adolescent Sexuality in Wilhelmine Germany. New Modes of Drama. Frank Wedekind Frühlings Erwachen |
| Week 10 |
Seminar: Class, gender and power in fin-de-siècle Vienna |
Term Two |
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| Week 1 |
Lecture and seminar: Freud – Schnitzler and the representation of Gender and Identity in Fräulein Else Arthur Schnitzler Fräulein Else |
| Week 2 | Lecture/Seminar: Cultural Geography in Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig |
| Week 3 |
Seminar: The Function of Art in Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig |
| Week 4 |
Lecture: The Rejection of Tradition and the Subversive Self in Robert Walser’s Jakob von Gunten Robert Walser Jakob von Gunten Robert Walser work-sheet, Walser lecture slides |
| Week 5 |
Seminar: Robert Walser’s Jakob von Gunten |
| Week 6 | Reading week |
| Week 7 |
Lecture/Seminar (EO): Family Dynamics in Franz Kafka's Die Verwandlung |
| Week 8 |
Seminar: Patriarchal power in Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung Sokel: Auflehnung und Bestrafung;
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| Week 9 | Seminar: The Critique of Capitalism in Expressionist drama: Georg Kaiser's Von morgens bis mitternachts |
| Week 10 |
Seminar: Expressionist drama and summary of course. |
Term Three |
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| Week 3 |
Revision seminar (LS) Exam workshop (exact time/date tbc). |