Law, Justice, and the Literary Imagination

Have law and poetry "risen from the same bed," as Jakob Grimm suggested in his essay "Von der Poesie im Recht"? Are there intrinsic connections between the legal and the literary? We will explore the ways in which narrative and drama articulate the relationship between law and justice, and represent the crises of the legal system. The course aims at enhancing reading fluency and textual analysis skills. Readings include texts by Schiller, Kleist, Kafka, Wedekind, and Brecht. Taught in German.