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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2021 |
Registration ID | GERMB223001 |
Course Title | Topics in German Cultural Stud-Seeing and Being Seen |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Comparative Literature |
Instructor | Strair,Margaret |
Times and Days | TTh 02:25pm-03:45pm
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Room Location | DAL212A |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1386 This is a topics course. Course content varies. Recent topics include Remembered Violence, Global Masculinities, and Crime and Detection in German.; Current topic description: Seeing and Being Seen: Vision and Visuality: This course explores the issues of vision, visibility and visuality during the visual turn in Middle Ages in present day German speaking regions. In the courtly setting the gaze reigned as a form of social surveillance. Elsewhere, mystics such as Hildegard von Bingen and Beguine Mechthild von Magdeburg write down impressive visions of God and religious life, asserting a powerful form of female authorship. Vision was also tied to writing, memory practices, descriptive story-telling, reflecting the social parameters and pressures of the period. Beyond the Middle Ages and into the Early Modern, notions of vision begin to shift as Age of Reason dawns and illuminates other ways of being in and knowing the world. We will explore the diverse forms of textual transmission in the premodern era, focusing on the courtly epic, Minnesang, conduct books, song books, and intersections with visual culture with an emphasis on text-image relationships. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI); Haverford: Humanities (HU) ( ) Enrollment Cap: 18; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Placement Exam; Permission of Instructor; |
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