Dear Friends,

Would you please forward this course poster (attached) to any students  
you think might be interested? Short description also follows.

Thanks and best,

Jonathan

Jonathan Skolnik
German 391k
Kafka
Tu/Th 10am-11:15

This course is conducted in English.

This seminar is an introduction to the short stories, novel fragments,  
  letters and diaries of Franz Kafka, with special emphasis on the  
works  of his "breakthrough" period. Through small-group discussion  
and  frequent analytic writing assignments, we will also explore the  
major  critical interpretations of Kafka's work since his death in  
1924 and  consider both Kafka's literary context (Austro-German high  
modernism,  fin-de-siecle decadence, Expressionism) and the unique  
political and  social environments of Prague and Berlin during his  
lifetime (Czech,  German and Jewish nationalism, socialism and  
anarchism, sexualities  and the modern city, mass-culture).