GM 135 Introduction to German Literature

Fall 2004

 

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 Course
 Description

The course introduces students to the history of German literature and to the theories of genres. Critical reading and dicussion of prose, poetry, and plays by authors representative of their period is accompanied by internet activities, recitation, and written interpretation and commentary. The course is conducted in German.

 

Time and Place

Tuesday & Thursday 2:30-3:45 pm

Lovejoy 450

Instructor

Ursula Reidel-Schrewe (Frau Ulla)
Associate Professor of German
Chair, German & Russian Department

Lovejoy 446
872 - 3127 (office)
ureidel@colby.edu

Office Hours

Monday, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Friday, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

And by appointment

Language Office

Talia Grazulis
Administrative Secretary

Lovejoy 317
872-3118

Language Assistant

Sophie Schieler

Lovejoy 452
872-3624

Textbooks

Coursepack

 
Friedrich Hebbel, Maria Magdalena, Reclam UB # 3173

 

Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung.  Marjorie L. Hoover (ed.) New York: Norton, 1960. ISBN 0-393-09533-9

 

 

LRC Software

CD-Rom: Goethe in Weimar. Eine virtuelle Reise in die Welt des  grossen Dichters. 

CD-Rom: Franz Kafka. Die Verwandlung. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1995.(Windows)

Miller Library

Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE). Bd. 1-5.
REF CT 759. D48 1995
Kindlers Literaturlexikon. Bde. 1-15. (Inhaltsangaben von einzelnen  literarischen Werken alphabetisch nach Titeln geordnet.
REF PN 44.  K54 1974.
The Oxford Companion to German Literature.
REF PT 41. G3 1986
Gero von Wilpert, Sachwörterbuch der dt. Literatur.
REF PN 41.W5 1989

On Reserve: 
Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis. Trans. A.L. Loyd. 
PT 2621 A26 V413 
Martin Swales (ed,) German Poetry. An Anthology from Klopstock zu Enzensberger
PT 1153.S93 1987