GERMAN LITERATURE

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Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in HUMANITIES

Disciplinary Sector:

German Literature

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

none

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GERMAN LITERATURE

HUMANITIES

AF code:

40X01560

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam.

In order to be admitted to the exam it is necessary to read:

a) two works of Secondary Literature (one, the second, of your choice)

b) five works of Primary Literature (of your choice from the list of Readings, see below)

Non-participant students have to prepare for the exam in addition:

Marcello Pagnini, Il Romanticismo, Bologna (Mulino), 1986.
or:
Zmegac/Skreb/Sekulic, Breve storia della letteratura tedesca, Torino Einaudi, 2000: pp. 82-397

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

The course aims to provide basic knowledge of German literary and cultural history, of the characteristic features of its main periods, and of some prominent authors, canonical authors of German literature (such as Goethe, Schiller, Büchner, Storm etc.). The student will also acquire the analytical tools to understand individual works by the authors in question and place them in their respective historical, cultural and literary context. He will be sensitized to the problems of literary and cultural historiography in general, of the periodization of German literature in particular and made able to orient himself autonomously in the field of the subject with the aim of being able to identify and finally specify his own future research interests.

Contents

›THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY‹ - Pre-Romanticism / Romanticism / Neoromanticism

When Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) wrote his ›The World of Yesterday. Memories of a European‹ (1939-41), a cultural history in form of an autobiography, he was convinced that with it an era was ending, or, in his words: a 'world', the modern› world, and according to Baudelaire mainly identical to that of Romanticism, vanished.
The course intends to give an overview of modern German literature, reconstructing briefly - through the analysis of particularly characteristic works - its artistic history along the common thread of Romanticisme: from the mid-eighteenth century to its sunset in the mid-twentieth century, the moment , when Zweig diagnosed his definitive overcoming.

Recommended Bibliography

SECONDARY LITERATURE:

Jürgen Safranski, Il romanticismo, Milano (Longanesi) 2011.

in addition (of your own choice):

Hugh Honour, Il romanticismo, Torino (Einaudi) 2007 (cap. I, II, III, IV, VII)
or:
Charles Rosen, La generazione romantica (Adelphi) (cap. I, II, III).
or:
Enrico Fubini, Il pensiero musicale del Romanticismo, Torino (EDT) 2005.

PRIMARY LITERATURE:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I dolori del giovane Werther, Milano (Oscar classici) 2002.
- Conversazioni di profughi tedeschi (Passigli) 2006.
Jean Paul, Vita di Maria Wuz, Milano (Lampi di stampa) 2002.
Heinrich von Kleist, La marchesa di O...; Michael Kohlhaas, Milano (Feltrinelli) 2015.
Friedrich Hölderlin, Iperione o l’eremita in Grecia, Milano (Feltrinelli) 2013.
Wilhelm Wackenroder, Effusioni del cuore di un monaco amante dell’arte. In: Wackenroder, Opere e lettere: Scritti di arte, estetica e morale in collaborazione con Ludwig Tieck (Italian Edition).
Ludwig Tieck, Fiabe teatrali: Il gatto con gli stivali – Il mondo alla rovescia 2007.
- : Il biondo Eckbert. In: Fiabe romantiche, Milano (Garzanti) 2009.
E.T.A. Hoffmann, L’uomo della sabbia e altri racconti, Milano (Mondadori) 1994.
Adelbert von Chamisso, Storia straordinaria di Peter Schlemihl, Milano (Garzanti) 2011.
Richard Wagner, Tristano e Isolda, Casa Editrice Le Lettere 2012.
Georg Büchner, Lenz, Milano (Adelphi) 1989.
Theodor Storm: Immensee [«Immensee»] e altre novelle , a cura di Fabrizio Cambi, Trento (Ed. Università di Torino), 1999.
Arthur Schnitzler, Doppio sogno [«Traumnovelle»], trad. Di Giuseppe Farese, Adelphi:, 2003.
Franz Kafka: La metamorfosi [«Die Verwandlung»], trad. Enrico Ganni, Torino (Einaudi), 2008.
Thomas Mann, La morte a Venezia, Torino (Einaudi) 2015.
Stefan Zweig, Il mondo di ieri, Milano (Mondadori) 2017.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

not defined yet

Contacts/More Information

Recommendations for additional readings:

David E. Wellbery/ Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht et al. (Ed.), A New History of German Literature, Cambridge/MA (Harvard University Press) 2005.

Mary Garland e Henry Garland, The Oxford Companion to German Literature, Oxford University Press, 1997.

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