Learning outcomes

The course aims at introducing the students to the most important periods and trends of German 19th Century literature: Classic and Romantic literature, “Vormärz”, “Biedermeier”, Realism.

At the end of the course students are required to possess a thourough knowledege of the topics we dealt with, with regard to both the literature-historic aspects as well as the works in German; moreover they are required to be capable of analysing and understanding these texts and to explainf the knowledge acquired in proper German speech.

Program

The course consists of one single module (taught class); after a short introduction in Italian the course will be held in German.
The course programme includes some of the canonical texts of German 19th Century literature, such as: Wolfgang Goethe, Faust I and II (selected passages); Kleist, Die Marquise von O (full text reading), Ludwig Tieck, Der Runenberg (full text reading), Wilhelm Hauff, Das kalte Herz; Friedrich La Motte-Fouché, Undine; Heinrich Heine, Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen (full text reading), Heinrich Heine, selected poems; Georg Büchner: Lenz (full text reading); Woyzek; Dantons Tod; Franz Grillparzer, Der arme Spielmann (full text reading); Adalbert Stifter, Kalkstein (from: Bunte Steine) (full text reading); Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest (selected passages).
Literature:
In German:
Annemarie und Wolfgang van Rinsum, Frührealismus 1815-1848, München DTV 1993 (selected passages), Annemarie und Wolfgang van Rinsum, Realismus und Naturalismus, München DTV 1994 (selected passages).
In Italian:
Marino Freschi, La letteratura tedesca, Bologna il Mulino 2008 (only the parts about Romanticism and 19th-Century literature: pages 93-122), Anton Reininger, Storia della letteratura tedesca fra l’Illuminismo e il Postmoderno, Torino Rosenberg & Selllier 2005 (selected chapters on 19th Century literature: pages 225-328).
Part of the texts will be handed out as photocopies. Further teaching material will be available on the e-learning platform related to the class.
Non-attending students are requested to agree with the docent upon part of the literature-history programme and to focus the second part of the programme on the study of works representative of the 19th Century literature, by reading one of the following texts at their choice: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: Die Judenbuche; Theodor Storm, Der Schimmelreiter; Gottfried Keller: Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe, Fontane, Effi Briest.

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