Study-unit GERMAN LITERATURE I
| Course name | Foreign languages and cultures |
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| Study-unit Code | GP004915 |
| Curriculum | Comune a tutti i curricula |
| Lecturer | Jelena Ulrike Reinhardt |
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| CFU | 9 |
| Course Regulation | Coorte 2022 |
| Supplied | 2022/23 |
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| 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 | Twentieth Century German Literature. |
| Reference texts | Mandatory readings (we also recommend the study of the introductions and notes included in the individual editions): Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Lettera di Lord Chandos e altri scritti, a cura di Marco Rispoli, con testo a fronte, Marsilio, Venezia 2017. Franz Kafka, I racconti, a cura di Giulio Schiavoni, Milano 1998 (Erzählungen, Reclam, Stuttgart). Thomas Mann, Morte a Venezia, a cura di E. Galvan, con testo a fronte, Marsilio, Venezia 2009. Elias Canetti, Auto da fè, trad. di L. Zagari, B. Zagari, Adelphi, Milano 2001 (Die Blendung, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main). 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). Ingeborg Bachmann, Tre sentieri per il lago e altri racconti, trad. di A. Pandolfi, Adelphi, Milano 1994. (Simultan: neue Erzählungen, Piper Verlag, München) A handout with poetry by R.M. Rilke, G. Benn, B. Brecht, P. Celan, H.M. Enzensberger and other authors will be provided during the course. Secondary Literature: Marino Freschi, La letteratura tedesca, il Mulino, Bologna 2008. Other suggested readings: 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 | Blended teaching with synchronous and / or asynchronous mode. |
| 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 | Twentieth-century German literature allows us to know, through the perspective of numerous authors, the German-speaking world of today in its complex and fascinating development, through periods of splendor and great vitality, moments of crisis and tragic involution. Hofmannsthal, Kafka, Th. Mann, Canetti, Dürrenmatt, Bachmann and many other authors will be read in their historical and cultural context, in search of their particular contribution to the universal literature of our time. |