MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY GERMAN LITERATURE

The students will acquire some knowledge about the literary history of the German-speaking lands between the 19th and the the beginning of 20th century. They will start to develop a critical reading approach to the literary texts in order to better understand them and place them in the right historical-cultural frame. Moreover they will understand how to recognize and analyse literary themes and motifs of the main literary movements of the period.

The course will provide an overview of the main themes and motifs of the German and Austrian culture of the early 20th century. Particular attention will be paid to the analytic study of some of the most important works of the period.

Choose one of the following books:

• Ladislao Mittner, La letteratura tedesca del Novecento, Torino, Einaudi, 1995.

• Marino Freschi, La letteratura tedesca, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008.

• Giuseppe Bevilacqua, Novecento tedesco, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2004.

• Aldo Venturelli, L’età del moderno. La letteratura tedesca del primo Novecento, Roma, Carocci, 2009.

• Philip Ajouri, Literatur um 1900. Naturalismus - Fin de Siecle - Expressionismus, Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2009.

• Hermann Bahr, L’espressionismo, Trento, Sylvi edizioni, 2011.

   

  Choose one of the following books:

• Eric Kandel , L’età dell’inconscio. Arte, mente e cervellodalla grande Vienna ai nostri giorni, Raffaello Cortina Editore 2012.

• MITTELEUROPA. Mito, Letteratura, Filosofia, Trento, Silvy, 2011.

   

  Choose one of the following books:

• Antonella Gargano, La Berlino dell’espressionismo, Trento, Silvy, 2012.

• Marino Freschi, Thomas Mann, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005

• Ute Treder, L’assalto del confine. Vita e opere di Franz Kafka, Morlacchi, 2013.

• M. Loewy, Kafka. Sognatore ribelle, Milano, Eleuthera, 2007.

• Grazia Pulvirenti, La farfalla accecata, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2008.

• Marino Freschi, Joseph Roth, Napoli, Liguori, 2013.

• Peter Szondi, Le Elegie Duinesi di Rilke, Milano, SE, 1997.

   

  Reading and Analysis of following volumes (at least 2 in german language) (The use of other editions of this section is allowed):

• Thomas Mann, I Buddenbrook. Decadenza di una famiglia, Torino, Einaudi, 2006 oppure Milano, Oscar Mondadori, 2010.

• Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus. La vita del compositore Adrian Leverkuehn narrata da un amico, Milano, Mondadori, 2001.

• Joseph Roth, La cripta dei cappuccini, Milano, Adelphi, 2012.

• Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Lettere del ritorno, Catania, Villaggio Maori, 2014.

• Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Elektra, Venezia, Marsilio, 2012.

• Rainer Maria Rilke, I quaderni di Malte Laurids Brigge, Milano, Garzanti, 2002.

• Franz Kafka, La metamorfosi, Torino, Einaudi, 2010.

• Arthur Schnitzler, Signorina Else, Milano, Adelphi, 1988.

   

  A CHOICE OF POEMS IN GERMAN

   

  N.B. The texts in Italian translation are to be used only by the following: 1. students enrolled in the LCEEO degree course who did not choose German as a foreign language;

  2. students enrolled in non-linguistic courses whose knowledge of German is level B1, or a lower level, in the Common European Reference Framework for Languages.