GERST 3075 - Print Matters

(LA-AS) Satisfies Option 1.

Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: GERST 2020 or GERST 2040 or GERST 2060 or placement by language exam. Enrollment limited to 12 students due to seminar format and physical constraints of viewing holdings in the Kroch Rare Books and Manuscripts Library and Herbert Johnson Museum of Art. Taught in German.

D. McBride.

German Print Culture from the Medieval to the Modern employs texts and images in the Kroch Rare Books and Manuscripts Library and Herbert Johnson Museum of Art as a prism to study how printing transformed everyday life in German-speaking Europe by making verbal and visual literacy possible for almost any member of society. Thematic units: Book-Making before the Printing Press; The Printing Press and Reformation; Endless War and Serialized Satire; Romanticism and the Birth of Children’s Literature; Bourgeois Book Culture and Political Unification; Popular Press and Propaganda. All discussion, readings, and writing in German.