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Laurea in Lingue e culture per il turismo e il commercio internazionale - Enrollment from 2025/2026

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Teaching code

4S002913

Credits

9

Language

German de

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/13 - GERMAN LITERATURE

Period

I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 30, 2019 al Jan 11, 2020.

Learning outcomes

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

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 analyzing and understanding these texts and to explain the knowledge acquired in proper German speech.

Program

During the lessons we will analyse the following texts:

J.W. Goethe: Grenzen der Menschheit
Novalis: Hymnen an die Nacht (I)
F. Hölderlin: Wie wenn am Feiertage...
C. Brentano: Lorelei
Heinrich von Kleist: Penthesilea, Die Verlobung in St. Domingo
Heinrich Heine: Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten / Der Rabbi von Bacharach / Lutetia (Auszüge)
Georg Büchner: Woyzeck
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: Die Judenbuche
G. Keller: Romeo und Julia aus dem Dorfe
Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest
Friedrich Nietzsche: Nur Narr! Nur Dichter!

Students are supposed to choose and study on their own one of the following works (students who don't attend the lessons are supposed to choose two works)

Heinrich von Kleist: Die Marquise von O.
Joseph von Eichendorff: Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
E.T.A. Hoffmann: Der Sandmann
Georg Büchner: Lenz
Theodor Storm: Immensee
Adalbert Stifter: Bergkristall

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff Die Judenbuche / Il faggio degli ebrei Marsilio 2004 88-317-6877-8 a cura di Uta Treder
Theodor Fontane Effi Briest Mondadori 2003 88-04-51344-6 a cura e con un saggio introduttivo di Giuliano Baioni
Heinrich Heine Il Rabbi di Bacharach SE 1989 88-7719-158-X a cura di Claudia Sonino
Heinrich von Kleist I racconti Garzanti 1988 88-11-58197-4 introduzione di Giuliano Baioni
Heinrich von Kleist Penthesilea Marsilio 2008 978-88-317-9477-0 introduzione di Rossana Rossanda, traduzione di Paola Capriolo
Gottfried Keller Romeo e Giulietta nel villaggio Marsilio 2003 88-317-6892-1
Georg Büchner Woyzeck Marsilio 2003 88-317-7298-8 traduzione di Claudio Magris ; a cura di Hermann Dorowin

Examination Methods

The final exam will be oral and held in German. The exam will consist in a conversation aimed at testing:
- depth and wideness of the acquired knowledge
- the ability of critical reflection and analysis of the texts included in the programme
- the ability to contextualize texts from a historical and cultural point of view

The final mark will be in 30ths.
ERASMUS students are required to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course to agree upon the exam modality.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE