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GERM 433 - The Literature and Culture of the Weimar Republic: Aesthetic and Politics of the Avantgarde


This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative Literature
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD
This course traces the aesthetic and political significance of various media (photography, poetry, film, theater, feuilleton, advertising, cabaret) and artistic movements (Expressionism, DADA, Bauhaus, Neue Sachlichkeit) in Weimar Germany to shed light on the ways in which new technologies of reproduction came to reconfigure the relation between media and literature, politics and aesthetic practice, mass culture and ‘high art.’
Enrollment Limit: 22
Instructor: S. Boos
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite & Notes: Note: Required for German and German Studies Major. Prerequisite: German 311 and 312.


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