GM 214 The Poetic Mind of Germany (Spring: 3)
Prerequisite:
GM 051 or equivalent
Satisfies Foreign Language Proficiency Core Requirement
Offered Biennially
Conducted in German.
Counts toward German major, German minor, and
German Studies minor.
This course will analyze and discuss selected German poems from the age
of the Baroque (seventeenth century) to the present. The poems will be read
in the context of German political, social, and cultural/intellectual history.
The course will cover literary movements such as the Enlightenment (eighteenth
century), Classicism (Goethe and Schiller), Romanticism, Realism, and Expressionism
(early twentieth century). Modern and contemporary poets such as Rilke,
George, von Hofmannsthal, Brecht, Benn and others will be included.
Christoph Eykman
Last Updated: 19-DEC-08