13298 - German Literature (1)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will have acquired in-depth knowledge about modern German literature, with special attention to the relationship between literary texts and historical, artistic and linguistic context. 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

Cultural Heritage and the literature of the Enlightenment and its literary forms and expressions: novel, epistolary novel, theatre, newspapers, journals, exchanges of letters.

 

Readings/Bibliography

A) Books for the study of the history of literature:

In Italian:

1. Emilio Bonfatti, Agli albori dell’Illuminismo, in Emilio Bonfatti, Anna Morisi, La nascita della letteratura tedesca, Carocci, Roma, 2005, pp. 229-245; 253-272.

2. Chiara M. Buglioni, Marco Castellari, Alessandra Goggio, Moira Paleari, Letteratura tedesca. Epoche, generi, intersezioni. Dal Medioevo al primo Novecento (vol. 1), Le Monnier Università, Firenze, 2019, pp. 65-164.

3. Michele Cometa (ed.), L'età classico-romantica. La cultura letteraria in Germania fra Settecento e Ottocento, Bari, Laterza, 2009, chap. 1 and chap. 2.

 

Or in German:

Wolfgang Beutin [et al.], Deutsche Literaturgeschichte : von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. verbesserte und erweiterte Auflage, Stuttgart, Weimar, J. B. Metzler, 2001 (only the chapters on the 18t^h century)

Or:

Reiner Ruffing, Deutsche Literaturgeschichte, Stuttgart, UTB, 2019 (only the chapters on the 18th century)

B) Works:

- Lessing, Nathan il saggio, transl. by A. Casalegno, Garzanti, 2013;

- Goethe, I dolori del giovane Werther, traduzione di Enrico Ganni, Einaudi, Torino, 2021;

N.B.: Students have to read these works before the begin of the course.

Two of these two works:

- Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Commedie, a cura di Maurizio Pirro, Mucchi, Modena, 2020.

- Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm, trad. di Italo Alighiero Chiusano, a cura di Emilio Bonfatti, Marsilio, Venezia, 2004;

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Sulla fisiognomica a cura di G. Cantarutti, La scuola di Pitagora editrice, Napoli, 2017;

- Friedrich Schiller, I Masnadieri, a cura di Luca Crescenzi, Mondadori, Milano, 1993.

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A selection of tests will be given by the lecturer during the course.

ATTENTION: The teacher will make available a ppt-presentation for the EXCLUSIVE USE of the students of the course because it is unpublished material and il will be published.

N.B.:

Students from Lettere who have to collect 6 CFU have to read two of these works:

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Commedie, a cura di Maurizio Pirro, Mucchi, Modena, 2020;

- Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm, trad. di Italo Alighiero Chiusano, a cura di Emilio Bonfatti, Marsilio, Venezia, 2004;

- Lessing, Nathan il saggio, trad. di A. Casalegno, con introduzione di Emilio Bonfatti, Garzanti, Milano, 2013;

- Goethe, I dolori del giovane Werther, traduzione di Enrico Ganni, Einaudi, Torino, 2021.

Moreover, they don't have to study these parts: 

- the chapters about Sturm und Drang;

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Sulla fisiognomica a cura di G. Cantarutti, La scuola di Pitagora editrice, Napoli, 2017; Friedrich Schiller, I Masnadieri, a cura di Luca Crescenzi, Mondadori, Milano, 1993.

 

 

 

 

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

An oral exam of three questions.

One question is on Lessing.

Non attending-students: The program is the same, but it is advisable to contact the teacher.

Teaching tools

The projector will be used.

Links to further information

https://site.unibo.it/fucuhe/it

Office hours

See the website of Chiara Conterno