Unit GERMAN LITERATURE I

Course
Foreign languages and cultures
Study-unit Code
GP004915
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Federica Rocchi
Teachers
  • Federica Rocchi
Hours
  • 54 ore - Federica Rocchi
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2024
Offered
2024/25
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Letterature straniere
Sector
L-LIN/13
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
Contemporay German Literature (20th and 21st century)
Reference texts
Arthur Schnitzler, Doppio sogno, a cura
di Giuseppe Farese, Milano, Adelphi,
2006. (versione originale:
Traumnovelle, Stuttgart, Reclam, 2019)
Franz Kafka, La metamorfosi, trad. di
Anita Raja, a cura di Giorgio
Vallortigara, Venezia, Marsilio, 2024
(con testo a fronte).
Bertolt Brecht, L’opera da tre soldi,

trad. di Emilio Castellani, a cura di
Consolina Vigliero, Torino, Einaudi,
2015 (con testo a fronte).
Hermann Hesse, Narciso e Boccadoro,
trad. di Margherita Carbonaro, Milano,
Mondadori, 2022 (versione originale:
Narziss und Goldmund, Frankfurt
a.M./Berlin Suhrkamp, 2011).
Christa Wolf, Cassandra, a cura di
Anita Raja, Roma, Edizioni E/O, 2012
(versione originale: Kassandra,
Frankfurt a.M./Berlin Suhrkamp, 2024).
Sarà inoltre fornita una dispensa con
poesie di R.M. Rilke, P. Celan, N. Sachs, I. Bachmann, Durs Grünbein ed
altri autori.
Letteratura critica e manuali di riferimento:
Marino Freschi, La letteratura tedesca,
Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.

Altri manuali consigliati:
Aldo Venturelli, La letteratura tedesca
del primo Novecento (1900-1933),
Roma, Carocci, 2009.

Raul Calzoni, La letteratura tedesca del
secondo dopoguerra. L'età delle
macerie e della ricostruzione (1945-
1961), Roma, Carocci, 2018.
Raul Calzoni, La letteratura tedesca del
secondo dopoguerra. L’età della
divisione e della riunificazione, Roma,
Carocci, 2018.
S. Costagli, A. Fambrini, M. Galli, S.
Sbarra, Guida alla letteratura tedesca.
Percorsi e protagonisti 1945-2017,
Bologna, Odoya, 2018.
Further materials (secundary literature) will be provided within the course.
Educational objectives
Knowledge acquisitivo of the history and literary
literary history of the German-speaking area.
To be able to comment
on the works read and to relate them in
their literary and historical
cultural context.
Prerequisites
Basic historical and cultural-historical knowledge.
Teaching methods
Lectures enriched with class discussion, projections
videos of staging and filmic adaptations
of the works studied.
Other information
For course timetables and exam dates, please refer to the official calendar
of the Humanities Department.
https://lettere.unipg.it/didattica/calendari
Students with disabilities and/or DSA: for
any information on the services
of the University, please consult the page
https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-
dsa and get in touch with the
Department Contact Person.
Learning verification modality
Final interview.
Students with disabilities and/or DSA may take advantage of
inclusive technologies, compensatory tools and dispensary measures
and dispensatory measures envisaged by the regulations.
Technologies, tools and measures must be requested and agreed upon with the teacher
well in advance of the tests.
For general information, consult the University Services at
https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-
dsa and get in touch with the Contact person for the department.
Extended program
The German literature of the last 120
years has seen
social and political changes that have marked the cultural identity of
German-speaking countries. The authors and
works that will be addressed witness to both innovation and tradition,
to crisis and splendour, which are appreciable in many
literary genres (short story, novel, play
plays and poetry). Arthur Schnitzler,
Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Hermann
Hesse and Christa Wolf and numerous
other authors will be read in their historical and cultural
historical and cultural context, in search of their
distinctive contribution to the literature
universal literature of our time.
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