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Credit points: 16.7 3rd and 4th year
Coordinator: Dr T Mehigan.
Contact: One 2.5-hour seminar per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
At the conclusion of the subject the student will:
- be acquainted with important fiction in two centuries of German writing;
- be able to establish links across traditionally separate literary genres and across long and short fiction;
- have enhanced the ability to discuss, analyse and evaluate complex ideas in German;
- have become acquainted with recent critical theory and methodology.
Content:
This subject follows the path of criminal fiction in German from its origins at the beginning of the 18th century through to recent exponents such as Thomas Bernhard. These are no ordinary detective stories. The detectives are not classical defenders of law and order but readers, the perpetrators are not conventional murderers and rapists but aristocrats, scientists and even the authors themselves.
Assessment:
Written work of no more than 6,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. German, Faculty of Arts (v3, p92) : Next:126-365 | Prev:126-363
2. German, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p116) : Next:126-365 | Prev:126-363
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Dr T Mehigan.
Contact: One 2.5-hour seminar each week
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
At the conclusion of the subject the student will:
- be acquainted with important fiction in two centuries of German writing;
- be able to establish links across traditionally separate literary genres and across long and short fiction;
- have enhanced the ability to discuss, analyse and evaluate complex ideas in German;
- have become acquainted with recent critical theory and methodology.
Content:
This subject follows the path of criminal fiction in German from its origins at the beginning of the 18th century through to recent exponents such as Thomas Bernhard. These are no ordinary detective stories. The detectives are not classical defenders of law and order but readers, the perpetrators are not conventional murderers and rapists but aristocrats, scientists and even the authors themselves.
Assessment:
Written work of no more than 6,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. German, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p116) : Next:126-365 | Prev:126-363
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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