Unit GERMAN LITERATURE I
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- GP004915
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Jelena Ulrike Reinhardt
- Teachers
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- Jelena Ulrike Reinhardt
- Hours
- 54 ore - Jelena Ulrike Reinhardt
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Letterature straniere
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/13
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- German literature of the last 120 years.
- Reference texts
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Lettera di Lord Chandos e altri scritti, a cura di Marco Rispoli, con testo a fronte, Marsilio, Venezia 2017.
Franz Kafka, La metamorfosi, a cura di Paola Capriolo, il notes magico, Padova 2011 (Die Verwandlung, Reclam, Stuttgart).
Bertolt Brecht, Vita di Galileo, a cura di G. Oneto, trad. di E. Castellani, con testo a fronte, Einaudi, Torino 1994.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, La visita della vecchia signora, traduzione di Aloisio Rendi, nota introduttiva di Luigi forte, Einaudi, Torino 1989 (Der Besuch der alten Dame, Reclam, Stuttgart).
Peter Handke, Infelicità senza desideri, a cura di Bruna Bianchi, con una nota critica di Giorgio Cusatelli, Garzanti, Milano 1976 (Wunschloses Unglück, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a.M. 1972).
Christa Wolf, Cassandra, a cura di Anita Raja, e/o, Roma 2011 (Kassandra, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a.M./Berlin).
A handout with poetry by R.M. Rilke, G. Benn, B. Brecht, P. Celan, I. Bachmann, H.M. Enzensberger and other authors will be provided.
Critical literature:
Marino Freschi, La letteratura tedesca, il Mulino, Bologna 2008.
Other readings suggested:
Aldo Venturelli, La letteratura tedesca del primo Novecento (1900-1933), Carocci, Roma 2009.
S. Costagli, A. Fambrini, M. Galli, S. Sbarra, Guida alla letteratura tedesca. Percorsi e protagonisti 1945-2017, Odoya, Bologna 2018. - Educational objectives
- Knowledge of the German literary history; ability to interpret literary texts in their historical, cultural, philosophical and literary context.
- Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of history and cultural history.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons, vision of several DVDs.
- Other information
- For the timetable of the lessons and the exam dates see the official Department calendar.
- Learning verification modality
- Written intermediate exam (voluntary), final oral exam.
- Extended program
- German literature of the last 120 years allows us to observe, through the eyes of numerous authors the affascinating and complex making of todays German-speaking world, through periods of splendour and vitality, moments of crisis and tragical involution. Hofmannsthal, Kafka, Brecht, Dürrenmatt, Peter Handke, Christa Wolf and many others will be studied within the historical and cultural context, in order to point out their specific contribution to the world literature of our age.