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GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Courses GRMN 871 German Units: 3.00 The emphasis in this course will be on Heidelberger Romantik GRMN 800 Professional Skills Units: 6.00 and on Spätromantik, concentrating on Brentano and An introduction to the practical, professional, and theoretical Hoffmann respectively. contexts of graduate studies in , this non- Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and credit tutorial of two hours per week during the fall and the winter term is obligatory for all graduate students not GRMN 872 Heine Units: 3.00 specifically excused by the Graduate Coordinator. Two term This seminar is intended to deepen understanding of German hours; fall and winter. All faculty. literary and intellectual history of the first half of the 19th Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science century, taking the dominant figure of as a paradigm to show the crosscurrents of his own time and GRMN 810 Introduction To Old Norse Units: 3.00 his influence as one of the first engaged writers of the post- Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science Romantic period. GRMN 811 Readings In Old Norse Units: 3.00 Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science GRMN 880 20th Century Novel Units: 6.00 GRMN 812 Gothic Units: 3.00 Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science GRMN 881 19th Century German Units: 3.00 GRMN 814 Old Saxon Units: 3.00 Detailed study of representative from Kleist to Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science Hauptmann. Three term-hours; winter. GRMN 840 16th & 17th Century Lit. Units: 6.00 Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science GRMN 882 German Realism Units: 3.00 GRMN 851 Rococo Units: 3.00 This course uses theoretical, critical, and cultural approaches A study of important aspects of the pre-classical period, to discuss realist novels and novellas of the second half of the centred on the works of either Lessing or the authors of the 19th century. C. Arndt. . Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science GRMN 883 German "Novelle" 19th Cent. Units: 3.00 GRMN 862 Units: 3.00 A representative sample of Novellen from Goethe to An introduction to the historical situation of this movement, a Hauptmann will be examined in detail. In addition to close reading of several of its core works, and a discussion of discussing the style and content of each work, an attempt its critical legacy. Three term-hours; winter. D.V. Pugh. will be made to reach some conclusions concerning the Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science problematic nature of the genre. Three term-hours; fall. W.Nell GRMN 863 18th Century Aesthetics Units: 3.00 Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science A historical survey of the development of aesthetics and criticism in eighteenth-century Germany. Fall term. D.V. Pugh GRMN 884 Fin-De-Siecle Vienna Units: 3.00 Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science A study of selected writings of major authors active in Vienna around 1900, including George, Hofmannsthal, and GRMN 865 Goethe Units: 3.00 Schnitzler, examined in the larger historical, political, and This course is designed to familiarize students with a cultural context. Three term-hours; winter. J. Scott. representative selection of Goethe's poetry, drama, and prose Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science works. Three term-hours; winter. A. Bohm. Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science GRMN 885 Topics In Psychoanalytic Crit. Units: 3.00 Offering an introduction to several different theorists and GRMN 870 Early Units: 3.00 periods of psychoanalysis from Freud to the present, this After examining the background and the characteristics seminar will examine the intersections of psychoanalytic of the Romantic period, this course will concentrate on thought and literary texts from various genres and periods. Frühromantik, with emphasis on . Three term-hours; fall. J. Scott. Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science

queensu.ca/academic-calendar and Literature 1 GRMN 886 Thematic Studies In Modernism Units: 3.00 GRMN 896 20th Century Studies I Units: 3.00 This seminar will treat a specific theme in modernist literature Specialized study of literature in German during the period and thought, examining a variety of authors and genres with 1900-1945, focusing on the detailed examination of a relation to a particular issue such as mythological adaptation, particular genre, theme, movement, literary form, or author, mourning, memory, subjectivity, or sexuality. or some combination of these elements. Three term-hours; Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science fall. J. Scott. GRMN 887 Postwar German-Jewish Literat. Units: 3.00 Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science A study of Jewish literature in the German-speaking world GRMN 897 20th Century Studies II Units: 3.00 since 1945, including such authors as Becker, Behrens, Specialized study of literature in German during the period Biller, Dischereit, Honigmann, Menasse, Rabinovici, Schindel, since 1945, focusing on the detailed examination of a and Seligmann. Discussion will include issues of diaspora, particular genre, theme, movement, literary form, or author, generation, and gender. or some combination of these elements. Three term-hours; Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science fall. P. Fachinger. GRMN 888 Women's Literature In German Units: 3.00 Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science A study of selected texts by women writers in the German- GRMN 899 Master's Thesis Research Units: 6.00 speaking world from 1968 to the present. Special attention Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science will be paid to themes and writing strategies that reflect GRMN 901 The Theory Of Narrative Units: 3.00 women's consciousness of self and the world. Not offered An introduction for students of German literature to the 2008-2009. major contemporary currents in the poetics of narrative Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science fiction, focusing on a consideration of structuralist and GRMN 890 Special Topics Units: 3.00 semiotic theories of narrative and their practical application Specialized study, as circumstances permit, of a particular to selected texts. Three term-hours; fall. author, genre, theme, movement, literary form, or some Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science combination of these elements. Three term-hours; winter. A. GRMN 903 21st-Century Studies Units: 3.00 Bohm. Specialized study of German literature and/or film in the 21st Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science century, focusing on the detailed examination of a particular GRMN 891 Narrating Nations Units: 3.00 genre, theme, movement, literary form, or author, or some This course explores literature and film of the Germanies with combination of these elements. a special emphasis on Cold War narratives of colonialism, Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science fascism, and transnationalism. GRMN 904 Terrorism In Literature & Film Units: 3.00 Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science A study of representations of terrorism in recent literature GRMN 892 The German Novel Units: 3.00 and film, focusing on those of the Red Army Faction and the A study of the German novel, its theory and development, events of September 11, 2001 and their national and global with particular emphasis on 20th-century authors, e.g., repercussions. Hesse, Böll, Kafka. Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science GRMN 905 Transnational German Lit.&Film Units: 3.00 GRMN 894 Master's Pattern III Oral Exam Units: 6.00 A study of cross-cultural contact and interaction in After satisfactory completion of eight term-length courses, contemporary German literature and film. 3 term-hours; Fall the MA candidate will have to pass a 50-minute oral 2010. P. Fachinger. examination on aspects of German literature and . Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science Typically, the student will prepare 5 primary texts of substantial length and, if applicable, a limited number of secondary texts. Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science GRMN 895 Modern German Literature/Film Units: 3.00 A study of the relationship between literary texts and film adaptations. Special emphasis will be placed on the close examination of narrative techniques in selected texts and in the films they inspired. Three term-hours; winter. J. Hosek Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science

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