COURSES

Fall 2010

GN 371	German Culture and Civilization through 1832
GN 264	German Literature in Translation I

OFFICE HOURS Fall 2010

Office: 220 B.B. Comer; Phone: 348-6954 T R 9:30 - 10:30 and by appointment, simply e-mail me: rlazda@bama.ua.edu Please feel free to see or call me during my office hours or e-mail me any time with your questions.

MARC TWAIN and GERMAN

Liebe StudentInnen,
Do you know what Mark Twain wrote about the The Awful German Language?
Twain knew German pretty well. And even if he called it 'awful,' he enjoyed studying German language and literature.
So go ahead and read about Freundschaftsbezeigungen, Dilettantenaufdringlichkeiten, and Stadtverordnetenversammlungen - and have a good time!

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad.

"The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother."
Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad.

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