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Laurea in Lingue e letterature straniere - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module to be chosen between
3rd foreign language
3
F
-

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module to be chosen between the following

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module among the following (philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
6
C
M-FIL/04
1 module to be chosen between the following
Final exam
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module to be chosen between
3rd foreign language
3
F
-
activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module to be chosen between the following
activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module among the following (philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
6
C
M-FIL/04
1 module to be chosen between the following
Final exam
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S008346

Credits

9

Language

Italian

Period

II semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Feb 17, 2020 al May 30, 2020.

Learning outcomes

This course’s aim is to offer an introduction to the German Language Literature of the twentieth-century. At the end of the course students will be able to understand and explain the texts discussed during the lessons, to comment both their authors and their aesthetical style, to situate them in the historical, cultural and literary context of German twentieth-century.

Program

The course, held in Italian ("frontal" teaching), is structured in 2 modules (18+36 hours). The texts are first introduced in Italian and their most significant parts are then analysed in German.

1. part (18 hours, Schiffermueller):
Franz Kafka: Lettera al padre (Oscar Mondadori)/ Brief an den Vater (Reclam)
- I racconti di Kafka (BUR, Rizzoli): La condanna (Das Urteil), La metamorfosi (Die Verwandlung)
- Rainer Maria Rilke (chosen selection of poems)
- Georg Trakl (chosen selection of poems)

2° part (36 hours, Destro):
- Thomas Mann: La morte a Venezia, Tonio Kröger (Oscar Mondadori)/ Der Tod in Venedig (Reclam), Tonio Kröger (Reclam)
- Bertolt Brecht: Scritti teatrali (a selection of passages), Madre Courage e i suoi figli/Mutter Courage (Einaudi, bilingual edition), A coloro che verranno/An die Nachgeborenen (photocopy)
- Gottfried Benn (una scelta di poesie)
- Paul Celan: Fuga di morte/Todesfuge (photocopy)
- Ingeborg Bachmann (a selection of poems)
- Peter Weiss: L’istruttoria (Einaudi)/ Die Ermittlung (Suhrkamp).
Students must choose one of the following texts:
- Heinrich Böll: L’onore perduto di Katharina Blum (Einaudi)/Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (Reclam)
- Günter Grass: Il tamburo di latta (Feltrinelli)/Die Blechtrommel (Reclam)
- Peter Handke: Infelicità senza desideri (Garzanti)/Wunschloses Unglück (Suhrkamp)
- Christa Wolf: Cassandra (Edizioni E/O)/ Kassandra (DTV)
- Thomas Bernhard: L’origine (Adelphi)/Die Ursache (DTV).

Photocopies of the selected poems will be provided during the course.
Handbook: Marino Freschi, La letteratura tedesca (2008).
Distancelearning students are kindly requested to contact the professor.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Marino Freschi La letteratura tedesca Il Mulino 2008 E' consigliato l'acquisto del manuale.
Thomas Mann La morte a Venezia; Tristano; Tonio Kroeger Oscar Mondadori  
Franz Kafka Lettera al padre Oscar Mondadori  
Peter Weiss L'istruttoria Einaudi  
Bertold Brecht Madre Courage e i suoi figli Einaudi  
Ladislao Mittner Storia della letteratura tedesca Einaudi 1978
Franz Kafka Tutti i racconti Oscar Mondadori 2017 disponibile in diverse riedizioni (1. ed. 1985)

Examination Methods

The final exam will be oral and held in German. The oral exam will be on the whole programme and it will consist in a conversation aimed at testing:
- the depth and the wideness of the acquired knowledges
- the ability to analyse and understand the literary texts in the programme
- the argumentative ability and the ability to link knowledges in a historical-cultural and critical-literary reflection
The final mark will be in 30ths.

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