GERM 65.11 Pulp Fiction Meets High Literature: Media and Writing in 19th-Century Germany (in German)
To be a writer in 19th-century Germany meant to interact with a thriving media market: For the first time, writers wrote for a mass readership and published in illustrated magazines, where their writings appeared together with news items, pulp fiction, other kinds of entertainment, and images. Reading works by Heine, Fontane, Droste, and others, we will explore the complex aesthetic strategies with which they responded to this media challenge.
Not open to students who have received credit for GERM 064.02.
This course introduces students to research methods in the field of German Studies. It also counts as the culminating experience for all senior majors, which may involve additional work.