GERMAN LITERATURE
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- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- MATTEO GALLI
- Credits
- 6
- Curriculum
- ARCHEOLOGIA E ARTI
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-LIN/13
Training objectives
- An Introduction to the Goethezeit (1770-1830), with particular reference on the history of german literature, canonic texts. The course will focus on narrative and poetic texts between the 18. and the 19. Century
Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- The course will focus on following texts:
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Prometheus (1772-1774)
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774);
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Römische Elegie, V (1795)
- Friedrich Schlegel, Fragment 116 (1798)
- Friedrich Hölderlin, Hälfte des Lebens (1804)
-Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Der Sandmann (1816) Didactic methods
- Frontal lesson
Learning assessment procedures
- The oral exam consists of two parts that can be sustained at different times:
A. verification of the texts and topics of literary history treated in class;
B. Translation of ten lines from a reader (around 50 pages in all) that will be made available by the teacher, containing excerpts from the four main prose texts covered in the course (Werther, Sandmann). Reference texts
- A. Full Texts
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774), Stuttgart: Reclam [ed. it I dolori del giovane Werther, Torino, Einaudi 2014, con testo a fronte]
-Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Der Sandmann (1816) [ed. it. L'uomo della sabbia, in E.T.A. Hoffmann, Notturni, a cura di Matteo Galli, Roma, L'Orma 2013]
B. Other Short Texts
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Prometheus (1771)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Römische Elegie, V (1795)
- Friedrich Schlegel, Fragment 116 (1798)
- Novalis, Hymne an die Nacht I (1800)
- Friedrich Hölderlin, Hälfte des Lebens (1804)
C. Bibliography
-Introduction and notes of the quoted editions under A)
- Power Point Files made available by Matteo Galli
- Chiara Buglioni, Marco Castellari, Alessandra Goggio, Moira Paleari Letteratura tedesca, Milano: Mondadori-Le Monnier 2019, p. 77-292.
The program is susceptible to possible transformations. such transformations will be promptly communicated by the teacher to the students attending and not.
