GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Oral
Development of methodological awareness with regard to the following interpretive approaches: history of mentality, history of ideas, archetypal criticism; advanced knowledge of some works of German literature.
The course aims at analyzing Friedrich Georg Jünger’s work entitled "Griechische Götter. Apollon, Pan, Dionysos" from a sociological and psychological perspective and at placing it within the context of the Romantic tradition and of the phenomenon of the inner emigration.
Friedrich Georg Jünger, Apollo, Pan, Dioniso, Le Lettere (in press);
Friedrich Schiller, L'educazione estetica dell'uomo, Bompiani, pp. 286;
Novalis, La Cristianità o Europa, Bompiani, pp. 186;
Friedrich Nietzsche, La nascita della tragedia, Adelphi, pp. 229;
Thomas Carlyle, Gli eroi, Oaks Editrice, pp. 361;
Friedrich Hölderlin, Iperione, Feltrinelli, pp. 192;
Arthur Schopenhauer, Il mondo come volontà e rappresentazione, Newton Compton (books 3 and 4);
Michael Löwy-Robert Sayre, Rivolta e malinconia. Il romanticismo contro la modernità, Neri Pozza (chapters 1 and 2).
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