The Shock of the New

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• The Shock of the New!?
• Feedback and Summary

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Lecture Outline

• Summary of the Module
• Essay Writing
• Feedback

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Shock of the New - Modernism

• The City in the 1920s
• Modern, culturally diverse poverty, struggles
• The City after 1933
• backdrop for synchronized masses
  Gleichschaltung
• George Grosz, Metropolis (1916/17)

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Historical period

• 1848 Märzrevolution
• 1848-49 parliament in the Frankfurter Paulskirche
  
• Verfassungen
• 1871 Reichsgründung
• 1888-1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II

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1871
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Historical period II

• 1914-1918 The Great War
• 1919-1932 Weimarer Republik
• 1933-1945 das Dritte Reich

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Themes

• Philosophy Menschenbild
• History fact or fiction?
• Art subversion or affirmation?

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Essay writing

• Importance of the question and a consistent
  argument
• Different perspectives lt-gt avoid polemical,
  one-sided argument
• roter Faden essay question, key terms in essay
  question (perhaps key themes of the module)
• Essay plan, make structure explicit, perhaps use
  subheadings
• Avoid plagiarism!

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Essay writing - websites

• http//www.leeds.ac.uk/library/
• Marking Criteria http//www.german.leeds.ac.uk/Sh
  ock20of20the20New/ShockHandbook.htm (see Essay
  evaluation profile)
• Referencing http//www.german.leeds.ac.uk/studyai
  ds/guidelines.htm
• http//www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/7Elibcb/writtenas
  signments/index.htm

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Feedback

• Reading
• Range of topics
• Seminars
• Independent study