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GERM 308 - Music in Literature and Literature in Music


Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD

In this course we will investigate the ‘location’ of music in selected literature and scientific thought of early German Romanticism–how it exists not only in time as it is played or sung, but is also embodied in language, occupies space, lingers in the body, and reaches beyond all the senses. It is even treated as a mysterious, universal language. Yet can it even be considered a language at all? We will focus on works by literary writers Novalis and E.T.A. Hoffmann, physicist Johann Wilhelm Ritter, and composer Robert Schumann, among others. Taught in English.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: A Smith


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