Methods of Interpretation: Critical Approaches to Literature

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This course will offer a survey of critical and interpretive approaches to literature. Based on works by Goethe, Kleist, Hoffmann, Tieck, Keller, Stifter, Rilke, Kafka, Celan, Beckett, Joyce, Woolf and others this course will discuss models of interpretation linked to various schools of thought like psychological, gender-specific, socio-economic, structuralist, philosophical or philological modes of analysis.