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Introduction to the close reading of German-language literature in the original. We read and discuss literary works in which experiences of crisis give rise to novel forms of selfhood. Authors may include Tieck, Kleist, Büchner, Droste-Hülshoff, Heine, Keller, Storm, Kafka, and others. We will ask how narrative form can represent breakdowns in established ways of sense-making. Attention will be paid to writers’ divergent responses to the challenges of modernity. Readings, discussion, and writing assignments in German.