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CLIT 200: “Poetics of Anxiety” CLIT 200: “Poetics of Anxiety”

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with Visiting Kade Professor Burkhardt Wolf In modernity anxiety or Angst is presumed to be much more than an ordinary emotion or affect Originally described as a x201Cpectoral oppressionx ID: 302439

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CLIT 200: “Poetics of Anxiety” with Visiting Kade Professor Burkhardt Wolf In modernity, anxiety (or Angst ) is presumed to be much more than an ordinary emotion or affect. Originally described as a “pectoral oppression” or as an imaginary “displeasure in the expectation of a putative evil” ( J.C. Gottsched), it challenges E nlightenment’s program of self - discipline and questions the idealistic aesthetics of the sublime. Having become a key concept of early existentialistic thinking (in Schelling and, above all, in Kierkegaard) since the turn to the 20 th century, it is at the core of psychoanalytic theory. On the one hand, the seminar will concentrate on the aesthetic and anthropological, the cultural and technical aspects that are at the basis of modern poetics of anxiety. On the other hand, it will focus on literary texts ( by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Checov, or Maurice Blanchot) which have repeatedly become a model for existentialist & psychoanalytic conceptions of anxiet y. The aesthetics of anxiety will also be explored through immersive me dia, especially in films, e.g. by Charles Laughton & David Lynch. Readings and discussions in English. Graduate students from all disciplines are welcome. Burkhardt Wolf is Professor of Literature and Media at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He has wri tten on the poetics of political represe ntation and social technologies, history of danger and risk, violence and religion, cultural and literary history of seafaring. http://www.literatur.hu - berlin.de/institutsmitarbeiter/1680960 Winter 2014 Tuesda y, 3:30 - 6:20pm, Phelps TBA