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GERM 82.09 The Hill We Climb – Down: Poetry and Short Fiction Nature Writing

As every experienced mountaineer is happy not to tell you: getting down will be the hard part. Tough on your knees, exhausting, dangerous. I grew up in a village close to the Alps, which provided me with multiple occasions to learn to hate them (alternatively: read them, see them, wonder) which seems a fair starting point for our adventurous climbs through the hilly landscape of German fiction and poetry. We will be dealing with trips to mountains and the insights, visions and pitfalls they provide us with. Our guiding questions will be: is there any such thing as “nature writing” in German? If yes: how and why does it differ from the Anglo-American tradition? How is it possible to translate any-“thing” critterly (picking up a term used by Donna Haraway) into language? And which kind of language would we like to use – rather: need to invent – in order to do so?

The course will be taught partly in German, partly in English. It will contain creative writing exercises related to stones, heights, plants and animals (of the mountains). Together we shall reflect on concepts of translation between languages, between “reality” and language and within a language itself. I promise to provide some extra oxygen and the odd marsbar (for real heights).

Open to all classes.

Instructor

Draesner

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:LIT; WCult:W

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