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 during the so-called Goethezeit and suitable critical tools for reading and interpreting literary texts.

1) A deep knowledge of German novel and in particular of Goethe's novels; 2) The ability to focus on the complexity of literary texts of the 18th and 19th century ; 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.

The course has a monographic character and focuses on three great Goethe novels. The first, "Die Leiden des jungen Werther", can be considered the first generational novel of modern literature, while "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre", concluded after the trip to Italy, negotiates the fundamental concept of Bildung throughout the nineteenth century against the backdrop of an anthropology of planning that was born within the extraordinary season of Weimar classicism. Finally, with the "Wahlverwandtschaften" Goethe responds to the crisis of the Weimarian model, and narrates the awareness of the end of an era.
A part of the course will be dedicated to some cinematographic reductions of the novels in the BRD and in the GDR.

Bibliography:

Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Edizione Einaudi, introduzione di G. Baioni);
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Reclam Ausgabe)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Text und Kommentar, Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek)

Letteratura secondaria

Jürgen Jacobs, Martin Krause: Der deutsche Bildungsroman: Gattungsgeschichte vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, Beck, Muenchen 1989.

The oral exam begins with the reading and translation of a literary passage. An interview in German that focuses on all the topics covered during the course will follw. In the overall assessment oral exposure of a topic will count 30%. The exposure will be followed by a short 5-page paper. On this occasion, the clarity of presentation, the ability to deal with an in-depth study independently, the competence and originality of the critical conclusions reached will be evaluated. During the exam interview the teacher will ask questions on the topics not covered by the paper.

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.

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