Charitini Douvaldzi
Charitini Douvaldzi
Assistant Professor of German Studies
Contact:
Building 260, Room 203
Phone: 650 723 0415
Fax: 650 725 8421
douvaldzi@stanford.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE:
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2002 Ph.D. Harvard University, Comparative Literature
1994 M.A. University of Munich, Germany, Comparative Literature
Courses
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GERGEN168A/268AWin2011-12
This seminar explores psychoanalysis at the juncture of its multiple meanings: as a therapeutic practice; as a theory of the functioning of the human mind; as a method of textual interpretation; as a cultural critique and a genealogy attempting to account for the origins of morality, religion, art, and other social institutions. In addition to Freud's major works, readings include short writings by Nietzsche, Ferenczi, Lacan, Laplanche, Kristeva, and Irigaray.
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GERLIT120Win2011-12
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.
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GERLIT234Spr2011-12
Life hermeneutics practiced in the psychological novel, Bildungsroman, and autobiography. Intersections and contrasts among these genres. The origins of the notion of progress and its fictional translations; possibilities of historical and fictional closure; and the emergence of the novel's protagonist as a disciplinary subject. Authors include Augustine, Rousseau, Goethe, Moritz, and Keller.
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GERLIT134Spr2011-12
This course explores the intersections between literature, art, politics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy in turn of the century Vienna. Works by Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, Bahr, Musil, Roth, Kraus, and Freud; shorter selections from Brentano, Herzl, Kraft-Ebbing, Loos, Mach, and Wittgenstein.
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GERGEN221Spr2010-11
Preference to freshmen. The art of memory as one of the main characteristics of modernity. The relationship between memory and modernism through major narrative texts: Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigger; James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; and Marcel Proust's Combray.. How memory is represented in the novels and its role in the perception of external reality. How memory helps to constitute personal identity. The metaphors used to define memory. Readings include theoretical and critical essays and primary texts.
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GERLIT120Spr2010-11
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 crisis 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.
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GERLIT234Spr2010-11
