2015/2016

2016/2017

DM270

L-FIL-LET/15 (GERMANIC PHILOLOGY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

LINGUISTICO-FILOLOGICO-LETTERARIO

2°

1st semester (26/09/2016 - 11/01/2017)

12

72 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

FRANCINI MARUSCA (titolare) - 12 ECTS

A knowledge of general linguistics is required

The course aims at the acquisition of a basic knowledge of Germanic linguistics and of history and culture of the Germanic world. Besides, in the second part of the course, Germanic literary texts will be analyzed, from a linguistic, a philological and a literary point of view.

Part I (a)
The course aims at the acquisition of a basic knowledge of Germanic linguistics and medieval Germanic history and culture. As for linguistics, aspects of the phonetics of the Germanic languages will be studied; the student will be grounded in the historical and comparative study of these languages. As for morphology, the verb system and the classes of the strong verbs will be studied. As for the historical and cultural part, the various areas of the Germanic world will be introduced (Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, Old German, Scandinavian).

Part II (b)
The course will touch upon the reception, translation and reworking of the Bible in the medieval Germanic literatures. Passages of medieval Germanic translations and reworkings of the Gospels will be read and analyzed (Gothic Bible, Old English Gospels, Aelfric's homilies, Christ und die Samaritanerin, Tatian, Heliand)

Lectures

I part (a)
-L- Lenaz (a c. di), "Tacito. La vita di Agricola. La Germania", Milano, Rizzoli, 1999, pp. 193-197; 207-225; 277-279 (Latin text excluded)
-M. V. Molinari, "La filologia germanica", Bologna, Zanichelli, 1987, pp. 5-48; 77-82; 87-108; 118-135; 151-160; 167-181.
-M. G. Saibene/M. Buzzoni, "Manuale di linguistica germanica", Bologna, Cisalpino-Monduzzi, 2006, pp. 3-27; 35-71; 75-100; 107-113; 115-122; 127-132;134-154;169-172;269-285.

In addition for students who cannot attend the lessons:
-M. Battagla, "Lineamenti di storia delle letterature germaniche medievali", Pisa, Il Campano, 2013.

II part (b
-M. Battaglia, "I Germani. Genesi di una cultura europea", Bologna, carocci, 2013, pp. 175-198
-M. francini, "La traduzione anglosassone della pericope dell'adultera nell'omelia Dominica V post Pentecosten di Aelfric", "Il Confronto Letterario" 62, 2014 -II, pp. 229-250
-N. francovich Onesti, "Cristo e la Samaritana dalla Vulgata al rifacimento in versi in tedesco antico", in M. Buzzoni, M. G. Cammarota, M. rancini (a c. di), "Medioevi moderni - odernità del Medioevo", Venezia, Ca' Foscari, 2013, pp. 209-222
-S. B. Greenfield, D. G. Calder, "A New Critical History of Old English Literature", New York, New York University Press, 1986 (2. ed.), pp.122-133; 206-226.
-L. Mancinelli, "Da Carlomagno a Lutero. La letterature tedesca medievale", Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1996, pp.13-46.

Students who cannot attend must add the following:
D. H. Green, "Lingua e storia nell'antico mondo germanico", Milano, 2006, pp. 331-442.

There will be an oral examination and for the part concerning Germanic linguistics there will be the possibility of a written test (for attenders only).

There will be an oral examination and for the part concerning Germanic linguistics there will be the possibility of a written test (for attenders only).