GERMAN LITERATURE 1 MOD.1

The course is adressed to the students of the first term, 1st year of the MA LLEAP. It's one of the core educational activities and provides advanced knowledge of German literature (in German) and culture at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century and suitable critical tools for reading and interpreting literary texts.

1) A deep knowledge of German prose from late Realism to Expressionism in the context of the cultural context of each period and considering some recurrent textual features. 2) The ability to focus on the complexity of literary texts of Realism and of the transformation of literary communication through semiological analysis; 3) the ability to analyse and recognize textual structural features in the contest of a philological approach; 4) the ability of expressing competent hermeneutic proposals and to report on them during the classes.

As for the rules of the Course of Studies LLEAP (BA in German, with at least 18 credits in German literature, 24 credits in German language).

At the end of what Eric Hobsbawn called the long 19th century, Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1919) and Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) write their novels, while Friedrich Nietzsche is working at a radical critique of the world those writers are describing in their books. A novel like "Effi Briest", later a beautiful film by R.W. Fassbinder, shows through the aesthetical means of late Realism the structure of a society ruled by exhausted values, worth disappearing. We will look for not merely ideologic, but also semiotic and rhetorical analogies between some works by Nietzsche and late realistic literature on the one hand, and on the other hand between some narratives of the beginning 20th century and the thought of the German philosopher, in order to discover the way literary imagination reflects on crisis periods and produces the possibility for new anthropologies to come.

Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest, Reclam 1986.
Theodor Fontane, Stine, Reclam 2013.
Wilhelm Raabe, Die Akten des Vogelsangs, Reclam 1988.
Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks. Verfall einer Familie, Fischer 2012.
Gottfried Benn, Ithaka, in: Einakter und kleine Dramen des Expressionismus, Reclam 1986, pp. 90-100.
Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung (qualsiasi edizione).
Franz Kafka, Das Urteil (qualsiasi edizione).
Heinrich Mann, Der Untertan, Fischer 1996 (e edizioni successive).
Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Bänden, hg. von Giorgio Colli und Mazzino Montinari (una scelta di testi tra cui: Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinne; Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen).
Stefania Sbarra. "Il confine, il confine. Dov'é?" Theodor Fontane, Friedrich Nietzsche e il Realismo tedesco, Le Lettere, Firenze 2019.

The oral exam will start with a reading and translation exercise and will cover all issues included in lectures and assigned reading.

Front lectures, seminars and class discussions in German.

Students are required to choose a topic related to the course (after
previous consultation with Prof. Sbarra in her office hours) and discuss it
in an oral presentation.

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development