Course Description
Significant works, authors, topics, genres, or movements in 20th- and 21st-century literature examined within their specific historical contexts.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate students will be responsible for a formal oral
presentation. They will also read more primary and secondary
materials, which will be incorporated into the final examination
and the final paper. Graduate students will be required to
complete a 12-17 page research project.
Athena Title
20th and 21st Cent Texts Cont
Prerequisite
GRMN 3020
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students will learn how literary movements, authors, texts and genres reflect and represent significant events and ideas of the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will gain historical and cultural knowledge and skills with which to interpret literary and non-literary writings within their socio-historic contexts.
Topical Outline
1. Impressionism and Symbolism 2. Expressionism 3. Weimar Republic 4. The Third Reich 5. The “Stunde Null” 6. Literary Developments in the FRG 1949-1989 7. Literary Developments in the GDR 1949-1989 8. Unification 9. Post-Wall Literature
Syllabus
Public CV