Germany Refracted: German Culture, Literature, History

Germany Refracted: German Culture, Literature, History

This seminar will be taught by several professors in the Department of German Studies. Classes will focus on areas of each professor’s expertise and range from the Middle Ages to contemporary German literature, culture, and language. Key topics include medieval...
A Cultural History of German Romanticism

A Cultural History of German Romanticism

Romanticism embraces love and sensuality, but it includes much more. The romantic movement powerfully affected all forms of literature and the arts, and even science. In this seminar we investigate several texts in historical, political, philosophical, literary,...
Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival

Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival

In life we search for God, spirituality, meaning, or identity. In medieval Italian literature Dante did this best in his Divina Commedia. In medieval German literature Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival did the same. This course examines his monumental Grail romance...