31350 - German Literature 3

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

Twentieth-century German literature: poetry

This course presents twentieth-century literature through the most important works of poetry, from a chronological perspective and in a European context. Particular attention is paid to the forms and traditions of German poetry.

The end of the Great War and the avant-garde movements

Exile poetry

The politicization of poetry since the end of the 1950s

Comic poetry and the comic traditions: Robert Gernhardt

After German unification: mainstream poetry. The years without poetry.

 

A list of further readings (Sekundärliteratur) will be given at the beginning of the lectures.

Programme for non-attending students:

Non-attending students must add the following texts to the programme:

 

Readings/Bibliography

Readings/bibliography

1) STORIA DELLA LETTERATURA :

-Michael Dallapiazza/ Claudio Santi: Storia della letteratura tedesca, vol. 3, Il Novecento. 3. Ed. 2005, Laterza.

-Ulrike Kindl, Storia della letteratura tedesca, vol. 2, Dal Settecento alla prima guerra mondiale, pp. 362-400,

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

 

2)LETTURE :

 4 volumi di poesia a scelta fra le seguenti

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. - Günter Grass, Gesammelte Gedichte (una parte). - Robert Gernhardt, Reim und Zeit. – 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). Ulteriore antologie verranno fornite durante le lezioni.

 

Ulteriore SEKUNDÄRLITERATUR verrà  fornita all'inizio delle lezioni.  PROGRAMMA PER NON-FREQUENTANTI: I non-frequentanti, al programma previsto per i frequentanti, aggiungeranno lo studio di:

a)      due volumi di poesie in più (6 invece di 4)

b)      Poesia tedesca contemporanea : interpretazioni / a cura di Anna Chiarloni e Riccardo Morello, 1996.   ca. metà, a scelta.

 

Teaching methods

Seminar lessons

Assessment methods

The oral test consists in an oral interview which has the aim of evaluating the competence as well as the critical and methodological ability of the students.

Teaching tools

The course includes a cycle of conferences organised in collaboration with other colleagues of the School (Prof. Francesco Benozzo , Mirco Dondi, Elena Lamberti), involving invited guests from Italy and abroad. The program will be available when classes begin.

Office hours

See the website of Michael Gottlieb Dallapiazza