Middlebury

GRMN 6684

Gn Poetry 20th Cent

Poetry in the 20th Century - Lyrik des 20. Jahrhunderts

The seminar explores changing concepts and traditions of German poetry in the 20th century and focuses on exemplary analysis of poetic texts by poets including Hofmannsthal, Rilke, Benn, Brecht, Bachmann, Celan, Enzensberger and Grass as well as texts known as konkrete Poesie. The course introduces basic concepts and terminology used for literary analysis and demonstrates different methodological approaches to the interpretation of poetic text. Authors will be introduced with their literary and historical background.

Required texts: Deutsche Lyrik. Eine Anthologie. Hg. von Hanspeter Brode (Suhrkamp); Dieter Burdorf, Einführung in die Gedichtanalyse (Verlag J.B. Metzler).
Subject:
German
Department:
German
Division:
Language School
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Sections

Summer 2008, LS 6 Week Session

GRMN6684A-L08 Lecture (Speier)