26020 - German Women's Literature

Academic Year 2022/2023

Learning outcomes

The student acquires in-depth knowledges of German women's literature. He is able to use practical methodologies for the analysis and the interpretation of the literary text.

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. Motivi e forme: Memento Mori; Carpe Diem; Vanitas
  3. Goethezeit
    1. Sturm und Drang; „Naturmagie“
    2. Ballate
    3. Poesie del primo romanticismo
    4. Poesie del Tardo Romanticismo: Heinrich Heine, Eichendorff, Viaggio d’Inverno

  4. Novecento fino a oggi
  1. Fin de siècle,
  2. Espressionismo e DADA
  3. Poesia anni di Weimar
  4. Poesia d’esilio; Brecht
  5. Poesia dopo 1945: Paul Celan, Günter Eich, Ingeborg Bachmann
  6. Poesie concreta: Ernst Jandl
  7. Poesie e Avantgarde: Ulrike Draesner e Durs Grünbein

 

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

esti obbligatori di critica:

  • 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)

ulteriore materiale sarà distribuito all'inizio del corso. è consigliato preparare una tesina

 

Readings

 

Letture

Oltre alle poesie trattate nel corso, devono essere preparate tre raccolte di poesie di almeno 2 dei periodi trattati. I titoli e le antologie precedenti al 1900 vengono pubblicati all'inizio del corso.

Per il 20° secolo si può scegliere tra questi:

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.). - 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.- Else Lasker-Schüler, Ballate ebraiche e altre poesie – Johannes R. Becher, Gedichte ( 20 poesie a scelta).

PROGRAMMA PER NON-FREQUENTANTI: I non-frequentanti, al programma previsto per i frequentanti aggiungeranno lo studio di un ulteriore titolo da questa lista

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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