| Module Identifier |
GEM0430 |
| Module Title |
TRAJECTORIES OF MODERNISM: INTRO TO GERMAN CRITICAL THEORY |
| Academic Year |
2005/2006 |
| Co-ordinator |
Dr Gregory M Moore |
| Semester |
Semester 2 |
| Pre-Requisite |
Normally a 2, 1 degree in German Studies |
| Co-Requisite |
GEM0130 , GEM0230 |
| Course delivery |
Seminars / Tutorials | |
| |
Lecture | |
| Assessment |
| Assessment Type | Assessment Length/Details | Proportion |
|---|
| Semester Assessment | Seminar Presentation: 2 lead seminars | 25% |
| Semester Assessment | Essay: 1 x 5000 word essay of a comparative nature | 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Resubmission of essay | 75% |
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Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to
1. demonstrate that they have acquired a knowledge and understanding of the major theoretical issues raised during the module.
2. discuss critically the debates surrounding the development of Modernism.
3. write about theories and issues in a well-structured and well-argued way
4. undertake further postgraduate research
Brief description
The aims of this course are to introduce students to German critical theory, focusing on teh development of Modernism, a key issue throughout the twentieth century. As a starting point students will explore the 'Expressionism Debate' of the 1930s amongst writers in exile. They will then look at how this debate developed in both the east and west German States, tracing its movement in the west from Adorno's position in the 1950s and 1960s to that of Habermas, finally examining the issue of Postmodernism. With regard to the east, students will look at the 'Formalism Debate' of teh 1950s, the 'problem' of Kafka in the Eastern Bloc, the controversy concerning Christa Wolf in the 1960s, and her continued engagement with Modernist aesthetics, through to the 'rediscovery' of the early twentieth-century avant-garde amongst writers in teh 1970s and 80s.
Reading Lists
Books
** Recommended Text
Raddatz, Fritz J (1969) Marxismus und Literatur: eine Dokumentation in drei Banden
Reinbek: Rowohlt
Reid, J H (1985) Another turn in the road: Kafka in the GDR, 21-38
GDR Monitor 13
Hermand, Jost (1974) 'Das Gute-Neue und das Schlechte-Neue: Wandlungen der Modernismus-Debatte in der DDR seit 1956'in Literatur und Literaturtheorie in der DDR, pp. 73-79
Peter-Uwe Ho. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp
Riese, Utz Wie international ist die LiteraturwissenschaftPoststrukturalismus/Postmoderne und das Nahen der Wende in der DDR, in
Lutz Dannebe. , pp. 425-439
Schmidt, Burghart (1987) Postmoderne - Strategien des Vergessens, ein kritischer Bericht
Darmstadt: Luchterhand
Benjamin, Walter (1977) Illuminationen
Frankfurt: Suhrkamp
Bradbury, Malcolm; McFarlane, James (eds.) (1991) Modernism: a guide to European Literature 1890-1930
2nd. Harmondsworth: Penguin
Frank, Manfred (1993) Conditio Moderna
Leipzig: Reclam
Grant, Colin (1995) Literary Communication from Consensus to Rupture: Practice and Theory in Honecker's GDR
Amsterdam: Rodopi
Habermas, Jurgen (1990) Die Moderne - ein unvollendetes Projekt: Philosophisch-politische Aufsatze 1977-1990
Leipzig: Reclam
Schmitt, Hans-Jurgen (ed) (1973) Die Expressionismusdebatte: Materialen zu einer marxistischen Realismuskonzeption
Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp
Weber, Max (1924) Gesammelte Aufsatze zur Soziologie und Sozialpolitik
Tubingen: Mohr
Wittstock, Uwe (ed) (1994) Roman oder Leben: Postmoderne in der deustchen Literatur
Leipzig: Reclam
Wolf, Christa (1977) Fortgesetzter Versuch
Leipzig: Reclam
Erbe, Gunter (1993) Die verfemte Moderne: die Auseinandersetzung mit dem 'Modernismus' in Kulturpolitik, Liteaturwissenschaft und Literatur der DDR
Opladen: Westdeutscher
Hermans, Theo (1982) The structure of modernist poetry
London: Croom Helm
Huyssen, Andreas (1984) Mapping the Postmodern
New German Critique, 33
Adorno, Theodor W; Hiorkheimer, M (1969) Dialektik der Aufklarung
Frankfurt/Main: S. Fischer
Lyotard, Jean-Francois (1984) The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
Manchester: Manchester University Press
Norris, Christopher (1992) Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals and the Gulf War
London: Lawrence & Wishart
Bathrick, D (1995) The Powers of Speech: the politics of culture in the GDR
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7