GERM 413 - The Age of Goethe

Next Offered: First Semester 2008-09
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 HU, CD

This course will explore the major stylistic, aesthetic, and philosophical developments characteristic of Goethe and his contemporaries. Special attention will be paid to the often problematic, but always dynamic resonances between Weimar Classicism and the younger Romantics. Works by Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and others.