Course teached as: B005321 - LETTERATURA TEDESCA 1 (12 CFU) Second Cycle Degree in LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE E AMERICANE Curriculum LINGUE, LETTERATURE E TRADUZIONE
Teaching Language
Italian, German
Course Content
Green Gospels: Cult and destruction of Nature in German Romanticism.
Bibliography:
J.W. Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Reclam; L. Tieck, Der blonde Eckbert; Der Runenberg, Reclam; Novalis, Heinrich von Ofterdingen, Reclam; R. Wagner, Das Rheingold, Reclam.
Critics:
M. Frank, Kaltes Herz - Unendliche Fahrt, Frankfurt a.M. 1989; AAVV, La natura e il sacro. Teorie romantiche della pittura, Milano 2000; P. Collini, Iconolatria e iconoclastia nella letteratura romantica, Pisa 2004; P. Collini, Onde estatiche. Metamorfosi romantiche nel “Rheingold” di Wagner, in “Rivista di Letterature moderne e comparate”, 2009.
Type of Assessment
Oral test
Course program
German Romanticism and Industrial Revolution are contemporary phaenomena and the romantic cult and religion of nature find its origins in that dramatic epochal turn.
