GERST 3235

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GERST 3235
Cult of the Silent Woman: Male Fantasies in 18th Century German Thought

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

Idealized representations of women proliferated in the Enlightenment and Romantic philosophy, visual arts, dramaturgy, and literature. In this course we will interrogate how and why Goethe, Schiller and their contemporaries' concepts of aesthetics were illustrated, explicated and represented through the female body in its various configurations. What kinds of rhetorical maneuvers were employed to explicate the pleasurable, the beautiful, the virtuous and the sublime? In addition to the visual dimension of the female body, we will study the regulation and training of female actresses' voices and gestures to analyze how they complicate or enable female silence. Besides Goethe and Schiller, we will read texts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Immanuel Kant, Novalis and essays, texts and memoirs by female actresses, writers and poets such as Charlotte Ackermann and Karoline von Günderrode.

When Offered Fall.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: one course at the 3000-3209 level in German or placement exam.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (LA-AS)
Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Comments Taught in German.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 3235

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17610 GERST 3235   SEM 101

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  • Taught in German. Satisfies Option 1. Prerequisite: one course at the 3000-3209 level in German or placement exam.