Literary and Cultural Theory (C)

3 cr · Undergraduate

Language of instruction: English. A survey of the major theoretical approaches to German literatures and cultures. Discusses the aesthetics of Enlightenment and Idealism, Nietzsche, Freud, Prague Structuralism, hermeneutics, semiotics, the Frankfurt School, collective memory, gender studies, and multi-culturalism; application of theories to German literary texts and other cultural examples.