GER252
Tracing the Autobiographical: Personal Narratives in German Literature
Subject code
GER
Course Number
252
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
R. Cernahoschi, J. Kazecki
Course Long Title
Tracing the Autobiographical: Personal Narratives in German Literature
Description
The course focuses on autobiographical writings in German literature. Students consider questions about the self-presentation of the authors as narrators of their own stories, the relationship between disclosure and literary invention, and the contested area between truth and fiction in autobiographical forms. They investigate how "life-writing" and "self-writing" can be a literary genre that presents issues such as identity, belonging and Otherness, memory, and trauma. Prerequisite(s): GER 233.
Modes of Inquiry
Analysis and Critique [AC], Creative Process and Production [CP]
Writing Credit
No writing credit
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