Unit GERMAN LITERATURE II

Course
Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
Study-unit Code
A000167
Curriculum
Lingue e letterature
Teacher
Hermann Dorowin
Teachers
  • Hermann Dorowin
Hours
  • 54 ore - Hermann Dorowin
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Lingue e letterature moderne
Academic discipline
L-LIN/13
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
German
Contents
Comedy in German Literature
Reference texts
G. E. Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm
H. v. Kleist, Der zerbrochne Krug
G. Büchner, Leonce und Lena
F. Raimund, Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind
J. Nestroy, Der Zerrissene
H. v. Hofmannsthal, Der Schwierige
F. Dürrenmatt, Die Physiker
Th. Bernhard, Die Macht der Gewohnheit

Bernhard Greiner, Die Komödie, Tübingen 1992
Winfried Freund, Deutsche Komödien, München 1995
Gerhard Scheit, Hanswurst und der Staat. Eine kleine Geschichte der Komik: Von Mozart bis Thomas Bernhard, Wien 1995
Ulrich Profitlich (Hg.), Komödientheore. Texte und Kommentare vom Barock bis zur Gegenwart, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1998
Volker Klotz u.a., Komödie. Etappen ihrer Geschichte von der Antike bis heute, Frankfurt a.M. 2013
Educational objectives
Advanced knowledge of the genre of Comedy, of the studied authors and of the cultural and social context in which they operated.
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of the literary and cultural history of the German speaking countries; solid preparation in German language.
Teaching methods
Frontal lections and seminarial work
Other information
For the timetable of the lessons and the exam dates see the official Department calendar.
Learning verification modality
Final oral exam
Extended program
The course will investigate a genre, which in German literature is not widespread, but knows some magnificent masterpieces. While authors such as G.E.Lessing, H.v.Kleist and Georg Büchner addressed the comic genre in individual works, in Austrian culture comedy has more important popular roots, which can be studied in authors going from Raimund and Nestroy through H.v.Hofmannsthal to Thomas Bernhard. Finally, the Swiss Dürrenmatt will be approached as an author of grotesque parables that criticize our society. The aim of the course is not only to read these texts in their historical and cultural context, but to place them in the great European tradition of comedy (from Aristophanes to Plautus, from Commedia dell'arte to Shakespeare, Lope de Vega and Molière) and to investigate the various mechanisms of comedy.
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