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B029025 - GERMAN LITERATURE
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Course program
Academic Year 2018-19
Coorte 2018 - Second Cycle Degree in MODERN PHILOLOGY
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-LIN/13 - GERMAN LITERATURE
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
13/09/2018 ⇒ 16/12/2018
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B005321 - LETTERATURA TEDESCA 1 (12 CFU)
Second Cycle Degree in EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Curriculum STUDI LETTERARI E CULTURALI INTERNAZIONALI
B005321 - LETTERATURA TEDESCA 1 (12 CFU)
Second Cycle Degree in EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Curriculum STUDI LETTERARI E CULTURALI INTERNAZIONALI
Teaching Language
italian
Course Content
Exercise of the eye and “preschool of sight”: italian cities, images and landscapes in texts by Goethe, Nietzsche, Rilke and Borchardt.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Goethe, Italienische Reise (Viaggio in Italia) (passi scelti)
Nietzsche Aforisimi e poesie su Venezia e Genova.
Rilke Das Florenzer Tagebuch Insel Taschenbuch – 1994
(Diario fiorentino BUR).
R.Borchardt, Villa (in: Città italiane Adelphi).
Letture consigliate:
Il marmo, la fontana, il precipizio. Poesie tedesche sull’Italia a cura di B.A. Kruse.V. Vivarelli, Le lettere 2012
I. Hennemann, Imparare a vedere, in Schegge rilkiane ETS 1992
Nietzsche Aforisimi e poesie su Venezia e Genova.
Rilke Das Florenzer Tagebuch Insel Taschenbuch – 1994
(Diario fiorentino BUR).
R.Borchardt, Villa (in: Città italiane Adelphi).
Letture consigliate:
Il marmo, la fontana, il precipizio. Poesie tedesche sull’Italia a cura di B.A. Kruse.V. Vivarelli, Le lettere 2012
I. Hennemann, Imparare a vedere, in Schegge rilkiane ETS 1992
Learning Objectives
Aim of the course is to enable students to to identify trends in arguments, read and interpret fundamental texts of German literature and culture using printed or on-line-texts; and to provide essential knowledge of themes concerning German literature and philosophy and the cultural background. Discussion will also be encouraged during the course.
Prerequisites
The prerequisites for the admission to the cource are those estabilished by the Corso di Laurea
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons; close-reading, interpretive tools in order to place the texts in their historical context.
Further information
Students should have a good knowledge of the german language. Attendance is required for at least 2/3rds of the course. No specific exams for non-attending students, except for part-time students (who must contact the professor in order to agree upon a specific program).
Type of Assessment
Testing will be by oral examination in italian, which will be held at the end of the course.
Course program
How Goethe’s theme of exercise of the eye in his Italian Journey and of the clear, clarifyng eye inspired and influenced Nietzsche, Rilke and Borchardt. Metaphorical landscapes or cities as Venice, Genoa or Florence, the role of music and of the arts, the relations between poetic vision and aesthetic-philosophical thinking in different periods of German literature, reading across genres of poetry, diaries, aphorisms and essays.