GERM 42.08 Mind Reading: Literature of the Inner Life (in English)

At the beginning of the 20th century, European authors became fascinated by the inner workings of the human mind, and invented new narrative methods for exploring and depicting them. Many of those experimental techniques were so successful that they have now become standard practice in novels and short stories. Against the background of early 20th-century psychology, this course will examine those literary techniques, both in a systematic theoretical development, as well as by reading and analyzing works and selected passages by Kafka, Mann, Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Gide, Schnitzler, Musil, Faulkner, and others.

Cross Listed Courses

COLT 28.01

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:LIT; WCult:W

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