30652 - German Literature 2 (2nd cycle)

Academic Year 2022/2023

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will have acquired in-depth knowledge about various aspects and problems regarding literary history. The student will have a sound knowledge of the individual authors and works, and will be able to evaluate the literary quality of the works that have been studied, analyzing the texts according to specific critical methodologies.

Course contents

 

Forms and traditions of poetry since the Middle Ages

More than any other text genre, poetry expresses the awareness of its linguistic-formal boundness as well as the epistemological problem of capturing non-linguistic things with language. Even if not every time, not every author had poetics of linguistic means and procedures at his disposal, this awareness is expressed at least in the literary examples of every time, in the use of rhetorical and formal means of expression. And even if the historical-social context (e.g. in the Middle Ages) seems to contradict this, they sometimes also achieve aesthetic autonomy. The course is dedicated to poems and their formal and content analysis from 4 periods:

  1. Middle Ages
    1. Minnesang
    2. Oswald von Wolkenstein
  2. Barock. Motive und Formen: Memento Mori; Carpe Diem; Vanitas
    1. Sonnette
    2. Schäferdichtung
  3. Goethezeit
    1. Sturm und Drang; „Naturmagie“
    2. Balladen
    3. Lyrik der Frühromantik
    4. Winterreise (Wilhelm Müller/ Schubert)
    5. Heinrich Heine
    6. Eichendorff
  4. 20. century
  1. Fin de siècle, Simbolismus
  2. Expressionismus und DADA
  3. Politische Lyrik der Weimarer Zeit
  4. Exillyrik; Brecht

    Lyrik Nach 1945: Paul Celan, Günter Eich, Ingeborg Bachmann. Lyrik der DDR: Stephan Hermlin

  5. Politisierung und Agitprop: Enzensberger, Fried und andere
  6. Konkrete Poesie: Ernst Jandl
  7. Poesie in der DDR: Brecht. Sara Kirsch, Günter Kunert und andere
  8. Poesie und Avantgarde: Ulrike Draesner und Durs Grünbein

 

The course will be held in German. Each participant must eitherwrite a home assignment or present a seminar paper. 

The programme for non-attending students has to be arranged with the professor



Readings/Bibliography

 

1 Forschungsliteratur

  • Eugenio Spedicato: Letteratura tedesca. Manuale per l'università, Pisa, ETS 2005, prima capitolo: Elementi di teoria letteraria, p. 9-60

  • Theodor W. Adorno: Rede über Lyrik und Gesellschaft. In: Noten zur Literatur/ Note per la letteratura (in tedesco o in italiano o in inglese)

weitere Texte werden während des Kurse angegeben bzw. über die Materialien verteilt

Für die Zeit vor 1918 sind zwei Anthologien vorzubereiten:

Anthologie Gedichte des Expressionismus

Anthologie Romantik; Heine

Anthologie Sturm und Drang; Schiller, Goethe

Die Anthologien sind auf Virtuale zu finden

Für die Zeit nach 1918 sind zwei Gedichtsammlungen aus der folgenden Liste vorzubereiten.

-Rita Baldoni, “Ilse Weber, L’ultimo Lied. Lettere e poesie da Theresienstadt”, prefazione di Roberto Olla, Salomone Belforte, Livorno 2017.

-Tamar Radzyner (1927-1991), Nichts will ich dir sagen, 2017

Gottfried Benn: Morgue (testo bilingue, Einaudi); - Gottfried Benn: Poesie Statiche (testo bilingue. Einaudi). - Rainer Maria Rilke, Poesie. Tradotte da G. Pintor. Con testo a fronte. Einaudi 1955 (o altra ed.). - Bert Brecht: Hauspostille/ Libro di devozione domestica (ital. o tedesco). - Brecht: Svendborger Gedichte/poesie di Svendborg (ital. o ted.). - Brecht, Anthologie 15 Gedichte, su Virtuale - Stefan George, poesie. - Walter Mehring: Grosses Ketzerbrevier : die Kunst der lyrischen Fuge (20 poesie a scelta). - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Verteidigung der Wölfe. – Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Mausoleum. - Günter Eich, Abgelegene Gehöfte. - Günter Eich, Botschaften des Regens. - Paul Celan, Frühe Gedichte. - Paul Celan, Der Sand aus den Urnen. - Ingeborg Bachmann, Poesie. – Ulrike Draesner, Viaggio obliquo. – Sarah Kirsch, Calore di Neve (metà volume ca.) – Günter Kunert, Im weiteren Fortgang – Erich Fried, Und Vietnam und – Wolf Biermann, Die Drahtharfe – Rose Ausländer, Arcobaleno : motivi dal Ghetto e altre poesie.-Rose Ausländer: Texte aus “Ich höre das Herz des Oleanders: Gedichte, 1977-1979 (file su Virtuale) - Else Lasker-Schüler, Ballate ebraiche e altre poesie –Else Lasker-Schüler: Mein blaues Klavier. Neue Gedichte. Jerusalem 1943 (su richiesta posso mandare il pdf di questa raccolta) - Johannes R. Becher, Gedichte ( 15 poesie a scelta; sul Virtuale). -

Non-frequentanti haben das Pruefungsprogramm mit dem Dozenten abzustimmen

 

Teaching methods

Seminar lessons

Assessment methods

The exam consists in an oral interview. During the interview the methodological and critical skills acquired by the student will be evaluated . The student will be invited to discuss the texts covered during the course and to move within the sources and bibliographical material in order to be able to identify in them the useful information that will enable to illustrate the similarities and cultural areas of the discipline. The achievement of an organic vision of the issues addressed during the classes and their critical use, which demonstrate ownership of a mastery of expression and specific language, will be assessed with marks of excellence. Mechanical and / or mnemonic knowledge of matter, synthesis and analysis of non-articulating and / or correct language but not always appropriate will lead to discrete assessments; training gaps and / or inappropriate language - although in a context of minimal knowledge of the material - will lead to votes that will not exceed the sufficiency. Training gaps, inappropriate language, lack of guidance within the reference materials offered during the course will lead to failed assessments.

Office hours

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