GERST 6090

Poetologies after 1945

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

Since the 1950s, many of the important poetological reflections by German-speaking authors were produced in the context of lectures upon receiving prizes, at universities or simply in the public sphere.  This course examines 1) changing notions of the author as public intellectual or media figure and the ongoing and evolving relationship between author and society; 2) the intertextual web between these programmatic statements in terms of problems of language; questions of representation, fictionality and documentation; the politics of poetry and prose after 1945; subjectivity and history.  Authors include Gottfried Benn, Paul Celan, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Hubert Fichte, Christa Wolf, Martin Walser, Durs Grünbein, Rainald Goetz, Ulrich Peltzer, Kathrin Röggla, W. G. Sebald, Feridun Zaimoglu/Ilja Trojanow, Juli Zeh, Ann Cotten.

When Offered Fall.

Comments Anchor course. Taught in German.

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