Enrollment year
2012/2013
Academic discipline
L-LIN/13 (GERMAN LITERATURE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Curriculum
LINGUISTICO-FILOLOGICO-LETTERARIO
Period
2nd semester (23/02/2015 - 30/05/2015)
Lesson hours
54 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Advanced language level.
Learning outcomes
The course offers to the students a wide range of notions about some representative literary works of the period. Students should be able to understand, translate c0rrectly into Italian and comment the selected texts.
Course contents
The course examines German literature from Realism to Exile Literature. On the basis of a wide anthology in PDF formt and of some texts to be analyzed in full, it is intended to illustrate the variety of problematic issues relating to individual works, the literary genres, with links to the history and culture of the period.
Teaching methods
Lectures based on powerpoint slides, written texts, videos and films.
Reccomended or required readings
Pdf-Anthology of literary texts available from January 2015. Please contact the teacher or better visit his googlesite.
Wolfgang Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen (act V).
Friedrich Schiller, Maria Stuart (act III ).
Heinrich von Kleist, Der Prinz von Homburg.
Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest (three chapters).
Robert Musil, Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß.
Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung.
Ödön von Horvath, Jugend ohne Gott.
Assessment methods
Oral examination. Translation test from German into Italian compulsory for all students.
Further information
Oral examination. Translation test from German into Italian compulsory for all students.
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