Spring 2019  |  GER 3012W Section 001: Conversation and Composition (54233)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Kolthoff Hall 132
Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Prepares students for upper-level language and content courses in German. Continues the same focus and approach as 3011 with the addition of a larger reading component. prereq: 3011
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?GER3012W+Spring2019
Class Description:
Advanced Conversation and Composition: Detective Fiction and Literary Reading The genre of the detective- or crime-story marks an obsession in the American entertainment industry, only recently eclipsed by the bizarre popularity of so-called 'reality-tv'. As a genre, the detective story combines two readerly positions, that of identificatory suspense, where the reader is sucked in, as it were, by the thrill of the 'who dunnit'; and another, quite different, critical-analytic position, which is rather distanced, like that of the sleuth himself. This course will look at how this polarity of nearness or participation and the distance of analysis, informs classic works of the genre. The course will supplement readings of narratives by Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle with classic works of Kleist, Schiller, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Droste-Hulshoff, and Friedrich Durrenmatt to the more contemporary fiction of Wolf Haas, Jakob Arjouni, and Birgit Vanderbeke. Requirements: enjoyment of detective stories.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54233/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
14 November 2007

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