Elisabeth Bronfen
Fall Term 1987/1988
German 125 Representations of Death in 19th Century Narratives
| Sept. 12
| introduction
| | Sept. 28
| Freud: "Beyond the Pleasure Principle," "Totum and Taboo," "Mourning and Melancholia"
| | Oct. 5
| Grimm Fairy Tales: Frau Holle, Sternthaler, (Schneewittchen, Dornroeschen, Maerchen vom Machendelbaum, Blaubart, Gildkinder, 3 Maennlein im Walde, Wasser des Lebens, Jorindo und Jovingel, 6 Schwaene
| | Oct. 19
| Novalis "Hymnen an die Nacht," Bettine von Arnim "Tod der Guenderode"
| | Oct. 26
| Kleist "Das Erbeben von Chili"
| | Nov. 2
| Heine "Florentinische Naechte," "Der Rabbi von Bacharach"
| | Nov. 9
| Achim von Armin "Die Majoratsherrn," Brentano "Die Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schoenen Annerl"
| | Nov. 16
| Keller "Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe"
| | Nov. 23
| Fontane "Effi Briest"
| | Nov. 30
| Schnitzler "Frl. Else", "Sterben"
| | Dec. 7
| Beer/Hofmann "Der Tod Georgs"
| | Dec. 14
| Wagner "Tristan und Isolde," Thomas Mann "Tristan"
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