The course aims at introducing the students to the most important periods and trends of German 19th Century literature: Romantic literature, “Vormärz”, “Biedermeier”, Realism, Naturalism.
At the end of the course students are required to possess a thourough knowledege of the topics we dealt with, with regard to both the literature-historic aspects as well as the works in German; moreover they are required to be capable of analyzing and understanding these texts and to explain the knowledge acquired in proper German speech.
During the lessons we will analyse the following texts:
J.W. Goethe: Grenzen der Menschheit
Novalis: Hymnen an die Nacht (I)
F. Hölderlin: Wie wenn am Feiertage...
C. Brentano: Lorelei
Heinrich von Kleist: Penthesilea, Die Verlobung in St. Domingo
Heinrich Heine: Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten / Der Rabbi von Bacharach / Lutetia (Auszüge)
Georg Büchner: Woyzeck
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: Die Judenbuche
G. Keller: Romeo und Julia aus dem Dorfe
Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest
Friedrich Nietzsche: Nur Narr! Nur Dichter!
Students are supposed to choose and study on their own one of the following works (students who don't attend the lessons are supposed to choose two works)
Heinrich von Kleist: Die Marquise von O.
Joseph von Eichendorff: Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
E.T.A. Hoffmann: Der Sandmann
Georg Büchner: Lenz
Theodor Storm: Immensee
Adalbert Stifter: Bergkristall
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| Annette von Droste-Hülshoff | Die Judenbuche / Il faggio degli ebrei | Marsilio | 2004 | 88-317-6877-8 | a cura di Uta Treder |
| Theodor Fontane | Effi Briest | Mondadori | 2003 | 88-04-51344-6 | a cura e con un saggio introduttivo di Giuliano Baioni |
| Heinrich Heine | Il Rabbi di Bacharach | SE | 1989 | 88-7719-158-X | a cura di Claudia Sonino |
| Heinrich von Kleist | I racconti | Garzanti | 1988 | 88-11-58197-4 | introduzione di Giuliano Baioni |
| Heinrich von Kleist | Penthesilea | Marsilio | 2008 | 978-88-317-9477-0 | introduzione di Rossana Rossanda, traduzione di Paola Capriolo |
| Gottfried Keller | Romeo e Giulietta nel villaggio | Marsilio | 2003 | 88-317-6892-1 | |
| Georg Büchner | Woyzeck | Marsilio | 2003 | 88-317-7298-8 | traduzione di Claudio Magris ; a cura di Hermann Dorowin |
The final exam will be oral and held in German. The exam will consist in a conversation aimed at testing:
- depth and wideness of the acquired knowledge
- the ability of critical reflection and analysis of the texts included in the programme
- the ability to contextualize texts from a historical and cultural point of view
The final mark will be in 30ths.
ERASMUS students are required to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course to agree upon the exam modality.
