Set Texts:

Primary Texts:

Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Die grosse Liebe, Munich, Luchterhand/BTB, 2003.

Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Mein Sardinien, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 2014.

Navid Kermani, Grosse Liebe, Hamburg, Rowohlt, 2014.

Antje Ravic Strubel, Kältere Schichten der Luft, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 2008.

Alain Claude Sulzer, Ein perfekter Kellner, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp 2006.

Christian Petzold Dreileben (Film, 2011)

Thomas Stuber, In den Gängen (Film, 2018)

Students are expected to purchase a copy of the primary texts

Secondary Literature (indicative):

Helmut Schmitz, Peter Davies (eds.), Love, Eros and Desire in Contemporary German Language-Literature and Culture, Rochester, Camden House, 2017.

Ute Bettray, ‘Queer, Trans, and Transfeminist Theories’, in: Nancy A. Naples (ed.), Companion to Feminist Studies, Oxford, Blackwell, 2021, 129-53.

Faye Stewart: ‘Dislocation, Multiplicity, and Transformation: Posttransnationalism in Antje Rávic Strubel’s Kältere Schichten der Luft and Vom Dorf’, in: Elisabeth Herrmann, Carrie Smith-Prei, and Stuart Taberner (eds.), Transnationalism in Contemporary German-Language Literature, Rochester, NY, Camden House, 2015, pp. 187–208.

Esther K. Bauer, ‘Mired in Perfection: Male Images, Forbidden Desire and 'Bad Faith' in Novels by Alain Claude Sulzer’, German Life and Letters, January 2016, pp. 105-22.

Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Love: on the Frailty of Human Bonds, Cambridge, 2003.

Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy, Cambridge, 1992.

Michael Hofmann, Klaus von Stosch (eds.), Islam in der deutschen und türkischen Literatur, Paderborn, Schöningh, 2012.

Eva Illouz, Cold Intimacies, Cambridge, 2007.

Eva Illouz, Why Love Hurts, Cambridge, 2012.

Eva Illouz, The End of Love, New York, 2019.

Joseph Twist, Mystical Islam and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary German Literature: Openness to Alterity, Rochester/NY, Camden House 2018.

All secondary literature is available in the library