Literature on Trial: Kafka in Paris

Harvard Extension School

HUMA E-212

Section 1

CRN 17362

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This course is a close study of Franz Kafka's major stories and novels and how this body of work was received, explicated, and interpreted by key figures in post-war France. Relevant excerpts from Kafka's diaries and correspondence supplement the primary texts, as well as discussions relating to French existentialism, the student movement, and post-structuralism. Students may not take both FORE E-212 (offered previously) and HUMA E-212 for degree or certificate credit.

Registration Closes: August 28, 2025
Credits: 4

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Term

Fall Term 2025

Part of Term

Full Term

Format

Online

Credit Status

Graduate, Noncredit, Undergraduate

Section Status

Open

Instructor Info

John T. Hamilton, PhD

William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Harvard University


Meeting Info

9/2 to 12/20

Participation Option: Online Asynchronous

In online asynchronous courses, you are not required to attend class at a particular time. Instead you can complete the course work on your own schedule each week.

Deadlines

Last day to register: August 28, 2025

Notes

The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences companion course Compartive Literature 212. Registered students can ordinarily live stream the lectures Wednesdays, 12:45-2:45 pm starting September 3 or they can watch them on demand. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Class sessions for this course may include students enrolled in the FAS companion course. Accordingly, when you participate in live class sessions, you will do so alongside both Division of Continuing Education (DCE) and FAS students. If you participate in a way that causes you to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to DCE students enrolled in this course or FAS students enrolled in the companion course, according to the policies of the two schools on accessing recordings of class sessions.

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CRN Section # Participation Option(s) Instructor Section Status Meets Term Dates
17362 1 Online Asynchronous John Hamilton Open Sep 2 to Dec 20

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