GER297 Modernism, Spirituality, and Transcendence 
Chunjie Zhang 
CRN 42411
Wednesday 2:10-5pm
Sproul 412B (tentative)

In the graduate seminar, participants will explore the spiritual dimension in modernist literary texts and the discussion of transcendence in critical theory. While historical materialism has been a dominant approach to interpret literary modernism and its sociocultural contexts, this course focuses on the prominent yet less discussed spirituality and psychologism in modernism in conjunction with the transcendental in critical theory such as writings by Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, and C. G. Jung. Literary texts include Hermann Hesse, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, and Franz Kafka.