On Tuesday, March 10, 2020, Visiting Max Kade Professor Dr. Nikolai Preuschoff will speak on "Modesty and Rebellion in Robert Walser's Berlin Novels." 5:15 p.m., 2090B Foreign Languages Building.
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This course meets March-May 2020. Examination of the Holocaust in the context of German literature and film. Focus on works now considered to comprise the canon of Holocaust literature and cinema. We will investigate narrative and filmic strategies for representation of the Holocaust. In English. This course fulfills the Advanced Composition requirement. Same as ENGL 268 and CWL 271.
Kaffeestunde meets every Wednesday at Caffe Paradiso. Come anytime between 5-7p and practice your German while enjoying a break; all levels welcome! Contact John Slattery (jslatte2@illinois.edu) with questions.
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GER 260Eight-Week Course for Spring 2020. Meets 3/16/20 - 5/6/20; TR 11a - 1:45p. Examination of the Holocaust in the context of German literature and film. Focus on works now considered to comprise the canon of Holocaust literature and cinema.
GER 261 / ENGL 269 / CWL 273This course treats literary and filmic representations of the Holocaust. While a single course cannot do justice to this complex topic, we read four novels and screen five films concerning cultural representations of victims and perpetrators, and Holocaust denial and documentation.
GER 493It is hard to overstate how central vampires and zombies, doppelgänger and killers, ghosts and artificial humans—haunted hybrids—have been to the construction of German identity.
GER 199 / CWL 199How does the Harry Potter phenomenon reflect and transform central aspects of Western culture? We consider character, structure, and the philosophical and ethical issues raised within and by the Harry Potter series.
GER 465 / SCAN 494How have the Germanic languages changed throughout history? How is English related to German and Swedish? What can history tell us about how languages are changing today?
GER 470 / GER 572The aim of this course is to explore various kinds of transgressive behavior surrounding themes of money, knowledge, sex, and violence in early modern German literature by reading and discussing key works from the period before 1800.
GER 251Join us to experience tales you thought you knew and tales you never knew. We read tales by the Grimms and others, and we consider film, illustration, and the history of media. Why do we continue to tell these tales?
