GER 341 - Kafka and the Kafkaesque

This course examines Kafka’s life and major works in the historical and social context of early-20th-century Central Europe. Major themes are: generational conflicts, the function of humor and parody in his writings, modernity in and as crisis, the figure of the outsider as well as the “foreign, the eccentric, the illogical, the uncanny”, or simply the Kafkaesque. Several film adaptations that attempt to visualize Kafka’s imaginative depths will also be studied. Taught in GERMAN.

Prerequisites
GER 240 or equivalent or Permission of Instructor

Credits 1

Notes
Course taught in German

Area
Humanities

Division
Arts and Humanities

Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars