COMPLIT 289: Mann, Mahfouz, Agnon: Novels, Nations and Genre (GERMAN 291, JEWISHST 289)

Comparative Literature Stanford University 5.0 credits

Course Description

A comparative study of three twentieth-century novels by Thomas Mann, Naguib Mahfouz and Shmuel Agnon that treat historical formations of German, Egyptian and Israeli nationhood through variations of the genre. Attention to essayism in the novel of ideas, claims of realism, and structures of subjectivity. This class is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

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