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GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES (L21)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2014

L21 German 528Literary Seminar: Transmission and Transgression: Representing the Holocaust3.0 Units
Description:As the Holocaust recedes into the historical past, our knowledge of the event becomes increasingly dominated by literary and cinematic representations of it. This graduate-level course will investigate artistic mediations of the Holocaust, focusing in particular on questions of ethics, aesthetics and history and concentrating on two objectives. First, we will examine the various debates and controversies surrounding the issue of artistic representation of the Holocaust and discuss some of the theoretical and philosophical texts that have formed the core of Holocaust Studies by critics such as James Young, Dominick LaCapra, Marianne Hirsch, Sidra Ezrahi, and Geoffrey Hartman. Second, we will explore the ways in which literature and film, both fictional and documentary/testimonial, have attempted to narrate the events of the Holocaust. We will examine exemplary responses to the Shoah in a variety of genres by writers and filmmakers such as Primo Levi, Jean Améry, Jurek Becker, Aaron Appelfeld, Liana Millu, David Grossman, Edgar Hilsenrath, Art Spiegelman, Claude Lanzmann and Alain Resnais. Central to our exploration of these texts will be issues of representation, authenticity, appropriateness and uniqueness, the role of memory, the problems and limits of language, questions of trauma, the phenomenon of postmemory, and the development of post-Holocaust German and Jewish identities. Designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students; undergraduate enrollment only with express permission of instructor. Readings in German and English for graduate students in German; readings in English for graduate students of other departments. Discussions in English.
Attributes:ArtAH, SSPENH
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:L16 528  L22 5282  L75 5280Frequency:Unpredictable / History
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