Two German Authors You Should Know with Brent Peterson, PhD, A&S '71

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Lifelong Learning LogoCourse Title: Two German Authors You Should Know

Instructor:  Brent Peterson, PhD, A&S '71

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January 27, 2025 - March 03, 2025 (6 Sessions)  

Monday,  5:30PM ET - 7:00PM ET  

Virtual via Zoom 

 

 

Course Description: This course uses two short novels to introduce you to German authors who are just as good as their more familiar British, French, and Russian counterparts, but rarely read in the US. Theodor Fontane’s On Tangled Paths (1888) tells the story of two lovers trapped in a society that valued class over individual happiness. Günter Grass’s Crabwalk (2002) examines the lasting effects of Germany’s Nazi past through a teenager who stumbles into an online neo-Nazi present.

Suggested Readings: 

Theodor Fontane, On Tangled Paths, Peter James Bowman, translator, Penguin Classics, 2013. 

Günter Grass, Crabwalk, Krishna Winsston, translator, Harcourt, 2003.

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ABOUT Brent Peterson

Brent Peterson, Emeritus Professor of German, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI; author of Literature and Community in Die Abendschule: Popular Narratives and Ethnic Identity (1991), History, Fiction, and Germany: Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation (2005), Beyond the Myth of 1955: Rethinking Migration and German Culture (manuscript under review), and numerous articles on topics on German history, literature, and culture, 1700 to the present. Co-Director of NEH Summer Seminar for Teachers in Berlin, Germany, 2010, 2012, 2014. Hopkins, BA in History, 1971.

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Monday, January 27, 2025
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