GERMAN LITERATURE

The course is part of the related and complementary educational activities of the Language Science course.The course aims to introduce German literature and culture through texts on language and the problematisation of its nature in the late 19th and early 20th century.

The course aims to develop the student's critical ability with specific reference to the relationship between language and literature through the analysis of fundamental texts of poetological reflection in twentieth-century German. Upon completion of the course, the student will have developed the following skills:
- ability to delve into complex topics related to the language-literature relationship;
- ability for autonomous in-depth study in relation to the same topics;
- ability to orient themselves in the modern development of literary and - partially - philosophical reflection around language;
- ability to critically analyze proposed texts.

German language level B2/C1

The course introduces to the reflection on language developed in twentieth-century German literature beginning with Friedrich Nietzsche's essay On Truth and Lies in an Extramoral Sense and through the reflections of authors such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, and Walter Benjamin to Ingeborg Bachmann's considerations on "the sayable and the unspeakable" derived from developments in Austrian logical neopositivism. Such themes as the relationship between language and truth, language and silence, the limits and possibilities of language, reality and its transcendence in language also constitute major threads in the literature of moernism in Germany. Through the reading of a series of key literary and critical texts, an attempt will be made to explore the current value of reflections that never cease to be a provocation for contemporary reflection on language.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Su verità e menzogna in senso extramorale, trad. di Giorgio Colli, Adelphi, Milano 2015;
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Lettera di Lord Chandos, a cura di Marco Rispoli, Marsilio, Venezia 2017;
Franz Kafka, Discorso sulla lingua Jiddisch, a cura di B. Di Noi e M. Dotti, Biblion, Milano-Venezia 2011;
Walter Benjamin, Sulla lingua in generale e sulla lingua dell'uomo, in Angelus Novus, a cura di R. Solmi, Einaudi, Torino 1995;
Ingeborg Bachmann, il dicibile e l'indicibile. Saggi radiofonici, trad. di B. Agnese, Adelphi, Milano 1998

George Steiner, Linguaggio e silenzio. Saggi sul linguaggio, la letteratura e l'inumano, Garzanti, Milano 2019

The assessment of learning will take place by means of a final ORAL examination. the following will be specifically assessed: knowledge of the examination texts, critical ability, expression

oral

The ratings will correspond to the following scale:
Excellent: 30 cum laude
Excellent: 28-30
Good: 24-27
Sufficient: 18-23

The general framing of the problematic will be in historical and historical-poetological form. The necessary philosophical basics will be introduced. The reading of texts will follow the principles of close reading and hermeneutic criticism. Particular attention will be paid to the interaction between students and lecturer through summaries and critical protocols of the lectures as well as through the seminar form of the lectures.

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