Literature and Money · Germanic Languages
How to engage with the "and" in "literature and money."
- how different types of literature tackle the topic of money
what it says about the writing context of the piece
Discovered many authors and literary works (Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, Joseph Vogl, The Specter of Capital, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Karl Marx, The Capital, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust II, Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihl, Honoré de Balzac: Gobseck, Emile Zola, Money, Georg Simmel, Money and Modern Culture + The Philosophy of Money, Walter Benjamin, Capitalism as Religion (1921), Giorgio Agamben, Capitalism as Religion (2019), Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (1931), Kathrin Röggla, We Never Sleep (2004), Peter Thiel, Zero to One (2014), onas Lüscher, Kraft (2017))
lots of productive and rich discussions about these works
New perspective on focusing on the in-between of Literature AND Money.
I learned to analyze economic behavior and economic thought in relation to constructed narratives. Conversely, literature also holds the potential to appropriate certain elements of monetary exchange in the usage of diction, tone, characterization and theme.
I never thought I'd be able to string the words "literature" "and" "money" immediately next to each other in the same sentence, aestheticized, in an academic context. I'm struggling converge my interests but I love that I'm struggling already.
- It is a relatively easy course to validate
the teacher is very available and always ready to discuss your work/interests