31046 - German Literature 1

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the students should know the literature of Enlightenment. Morevoer, they should be able to understand and contextualize a text in German language.

Course contents

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

Readings/Bibliography

L'Illuminismo tedesco, edited by G. Cantarutti, Mimesis, Milano, (2019).

Also see:

Anton Reininger, Storia della letteratura tedesca fra l'Illuminismo e il Postmoderno 1700-2000, Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino, 2005, p. 21-108 (chap. Illuminismo, Empfindsamkeit, Sturm und Drang).

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

 

Works:

Lessing, Briefe, die neueste Literatur betreffend: 17. Literaturbrief (the 17^th letter will be given by the lecturer);

Lessing, Minna von Barnhelm edited by E. Bonfatti, Marsilio, 2001;

Lessing, Drammaturgia d'Amburgo / Hamburgische Dramaturgie (a selection of texts will be given by the lecturer);

Lessing, Nathan il saggio, transl. by A. Casalegno, Garzanti, 1992;

Goethe, I dolori del giovane Werther, Oscar Mondadori, 2002;

G. C. Lichtenberg, Lettere dall'Inghilterra / Briefe aus England (a selection of texts will be given by the lecturer);

G.C. Lichtenberg, Sulla fisiognomica edited by G. Cantarutti, La scuola di Pitagora editrice, 2017.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

An oral exam.

One question is on Lessing.

Teaching tools

The projector will be used.

Office hours

See the website of Chiara Conterno