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GERM 363 - Crime and the Fantastic

This course explores the modern fascination with the uncanny, the unexplainable, the magical, and the demonic in two related genres: murder mysteries and tales of the supernatural. We will ask shey these genres were invented in German Romanticism and what function they play in later contexts. Course materials include stories of the uncanny by E.T.A. Hoffmann and Tieck; Grimm’s fairytales; the fantastic realism of the ninteteenth century; Kafka’s Metamorphosis ; German TV crime drama. Taught in German. Prerequisite(s): GERM 308 , GERM 309  or the equivalent Offered fall term of even-numbered years. (4 Credits)