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Class number:
2870
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Title: Criminal Women in German Lit |
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Department: Language and Culture Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 5 |
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Available seats: 14 |
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Start date: Monday, January 31, 2022 |
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End date: Monday, May 16, 2022 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM, HL - 121 |
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Instructor(s): Assaiante, Julia |
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Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C- or better in German 202 or equivalent. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
The literary depictions of female transgressors of legal and social norms reveal much about what a culture deems to be acceptable, feminine behavior. Occasioned by Enlightenment thought, reform movements, and shifting educational ideals, the discourse concerning the role of women in society became quite ardent in Germany during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries- and unfolded prominently through a literary engagement with deviant, criminal women. From the witches of the Brothers Grimm, to JW Goethe's Gretchen, and ETA Hoffmann's vampires, this course will trace the ways in which these depictions of female deviancy (authored almost exclusively by male authors) shaped feminine, behavioral norms into the present day. |