TI 225-GR - Literary Responses to Two World Wars

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Our investigation of British, German, French, Italian, and Russian literature will be structured around the two world wars, arguably the most defining catastrophes to beFall modern Europe. We will consider how writers such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Paul Celan, Heinrich Boll, Gunter Grass, and Vladimir Nabokov responded to the violence of the wars as well as to the far-reaching social changes they brought about. (U) Occasionally