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GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES (L21)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2013
L21 German 524Seminar in Literature of the Late 18th Century: Goethe's Faust3.0 Units
Description:This seminar is designed to acquaint students with the complete text of Goethe's Faust. Our reading and discussion of the drama will unfold against the backdrop of three distinct but interrelated contexts. 1) We will consider Faust from a literary-historical perspective, one that situates the work within Goethe's own literary oeuvre as well within the frameworks of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German literature more generally and of the long history of literary Faust adaptations (chapbook, Marlowe). 2) We will also approach Faust from an intellectual-historical perspective, attempting to understand how it engages with the key philosophical discussions and debates of the period during which it was written: the problem of evil (e.g. Leibniz), the limits of reason (e.g. Kant, Romanticism), and the legitimacy of the modern age (e.g. Hegel). 3) Finally, we will read a selection of more recent essays that seek to demonstrate how Faust sheds light on contemporary theoretical and scholarly pre-occupations, ranging from identity and transnationalism to remediation and material culture. One of the aims of the seminar is to expose students, on the basis of an exemplary case study, to a wide range of models of scholarly inquiry. Discussions will be supplemented with video of performances and other multi-medial adaptations of the Faust material.
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