LITERATURE AND CULTURE: SPECIAL TOPICS

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(Cross-listed as EDUC 5353.) This course traces the literary history of texts dealing with individual and organized resistance during National Socialism. Students will examine primary texts as well as literary criticism and aesthetic theory. We will begin with an analysis of literature writing during the Nazi era by writers in exile. In the middle part of the semester, we will read early post-war literature by survivors. Finally, we will focus on contemporary texts that discuss the legacy of National Socialism in the context of national and individual identity and responsibility.