Course Catalog - 2006-2007

     

GERM 329 - LIT OF HOLOCAUST & EXILE

Long Title: LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST AND EXILE
Department: German Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Mapping German Culture. Most of the authors from Germany and Austria, who were persecuted and fled into exile, used literature to search for meaning in life that apparently had been stripped of all meaning. Among these authors are the most distinguished writers of the time, i.e., Th. and H. Mann, Brecht, Benjamin, Werfel, Doblin, J. Roth, S. Zweig, N. Sachs, Celan, Auslander. Taught in English with a possible FLAC section. Cross-list: HUMA 329.