GE340: Set Texts & Bibliography
Set Texts:
Primary Texts:
Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Die grosse Liebe, Munich, Luchterhand/BTB, 2003.
Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Mein Sardinien, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 2014.
Navid Kermani, Grosse Liebe, Hamburg, Rowohlt, 2014.
Antje Ravic Strubel, K盲ltere Schichten der Luft, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 2008.
Alain Claude Sulzer, Ein perfekter Kellner, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp 2006.
Christian Petzold Dreileben (Film, 2011)
Thomas Stuber, In den G盲ngen (Film, 2018)
Students are expected to purchase a copy of the primary texts
Secondary Literature (indicative):
Helmut Schmitz, Peter Davies (eds.), Love, Eros and Desire in Contemporary German Language-Literature and Culture, Rochester, Camden House, 2017.
Ute Bettray, 鈥楺ueer, Trans, and Transfeminist Theories鈥�, in: Nancy A. Naples (ed.), Companion to Feminist Studies, Oxford, Blackwell, 2021, 129-53.
Faye Stewart: 鈥楧islocation, Multiplicity, and Transformation: Posttransnationalism in Antje R谩vic Strubel鈥檚 K盲ltere Schichten der Luft and Vom Dorf鈥�, in: Elisabeth Herrmann, Carrie Smith-Prei, and Stuart Taberner (eds.), Transnationalism in Contemporary German-Language Literature, Rochester, NY, Camden House, 2015, pp. 187–208.
Esther K. Bauer, 鈥楳ired in Perfection: Male Images, Forbidden Desire and 'Bad Faith' in Novels by Alain Claude Sulzer鈥�, German Life and Letters, January 2016, pp. 105-22.
Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Love: on the Frailty of Human Bonds, Cambridge, 2003.
Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy, Cambridge, 1992.
Michael Hofmann, Klaus von Stosch (eds.), Islam in der deutschen und t眉rkischen Literatur, Paderborn, Sch枚ningh, 2012.
Eva Illouz, Cold Intimacies, Cambridge, 2007.
Eva Illouz, Why Love Hurts, Cambridge, 2012.
Eva Illouz, The End of Love, New York, 2019.
Joseph Twist, Mystical Islam and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary German Literature: Openness to Alterity, Rochester/NY, Camden House 2018.
All secondary literature is available in the library