Graduates in Languages and Literatures for Teaching and Translation obtain advanced knowledge and understanding in all the subject areas of their training in order to
1) consolidate and develop their competence in European and American Studies, with particular attention to their literature of specialisation;
2) deepen their knowledge of the two foreign languages chosen, achieving a heightened competence in the language of specialization and an advancement in the second language;
3) reach enhanced awareness of the linguistic features of their language of specialisation, both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective;
4) reach an adequate knowledge of the most advanced methodologies for the analysis of literary texts;
5) handle confidently the theoretical-practical tools for teaching and for translation.
Literatur, Theater, Kino und visuelle Künste/ Literature, theatre, cinema and visual arts is one of the characterising modules of the programme. The aim of the course is to refine the ability to understand and critically analyse literary texts and to carry out bibliographical research drawing on primary and secondary sources; to communicate disciplinary content at an advanced level; and to deepen linguistic-communicative skills in the German language.
At the end of the module students will be able to: analyse with greater competence the themes and phenomena of the history of German-language literature understood in its multiple relations with the history of other media such as theatre, cinema and the visual arts; develop practical and theoretical skills at an advanced level with reference to the analysis of literature as part of a more general history of the media.
Requirements: Students must have already taken Literatur und Intermedialität/ Literature and intermediality.
1) consolidate and develop their competence in European and American Studies, with particular attention to their literature of specialisation;
2) deepen their knowledge of the two foreign languages chosen, achieving a heightened competence in the language of specialization and an advancement in the second language;
3) reach enhanced awareness of the linguistic features of their language of specialisation, both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective;
4) reach an adequate knowledge of the most advanced methodologies for the analysis of literary texts;
5) handle confidently the theoretical-practical tools for teaching and for translation.
Literatur, Theater, Kino und visuelle Künste/ Literature, theatre, cinema and visual arts is one of the characterising modules of the programme. The aim of the course is to refine the ability to understand and critically analyse literary texts and to carry out bibliographical research drawing on primary and secondary sources; to communicate disciplinary content at an advanced level; and to deepen linguistic-communicative skills in the German language.
At the end of the module students will be able to: analyse with greater competence the themes and phenomena of the history of German-language literature understood in its multiple relations with the history of other media such as theatre, cinema and the visual arts; develop practical and theoretical skills at an advanced level with reference to the analysis of literature as part of a more general history of the media.
Requirements: Students must have already taken Literatur und Intermedialität/ Literature and intermediality.
teacher profile teaching materials
- Gustav Meyrink, Der Golem (Mit Illustrationen von Hugo Steiner-Prag)
- Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg
- Hermann Hesse, Der Steppenwolf
- Bertolt Brecht, Der Ozeanflug. Ein Radiolehrstück für Knaben und Mädchen / Das Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis
- Bertolt Brecht, Kriegsfiebel
- Stellan Rye, Der Student von Prag
- Carl Boese, Paul Wegener, Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam
- Arthur Robison, Schatten. Eine nächtliche Halluzination
- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Nosferatu. Eine Symphonie des Grauens
Programme
The course focuses on the relationship between literature and media (lithographs realized for the books, radio, film, gramophone, photography), in early twentieth-century Germany by analyzing the following aspects: 1. seeing the invisible: the fantastic and the occult in literature and film; 2. the genre of the novel and the new media; 3. experiments with literature and new mediaCore Documentation
Texts and films:- Gustav Meyrink, Der Golem (Mit Illustrationen von Hugo Steiner-Prag)
- Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg
- Hermann Hesse, Der Steppenwolf
- Bertolt Brecht, Der Ozeanflug. Ein Radiolehrstück für Knaben und Mädchen / Das Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis
- Bertolt Brecht, Kriegsfiebel
- Stellan Rye, Der Student von Prag
- Carl Boese, Paul Wegener, Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam
- Arthur Robison, Schatten. Eine nächtliche Halluzination
- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Nosferatu. Eine Symphonie des Grauens
Reference Bibliography
Critical bibliography (for non attending students): - Nobert Bolz, Abschied von der Gutenberg-Galaxis. Medienästhetik nach Nietzsche, Benjamin und McLuhan, in Jochen Hörisch - Michael Wetzel (Hrsg.), Armaturen der Sinne. Literarische und technische Medien 1870 bis 1920, Wilhelm Fink 1990, pp. 139-157. - Francesco Fiorentino, Voci dalla radio: massa e dividuum nel teatro di Brecht, in “Cultura Tedesca”, n. 36 (2009): Brecht, pp. 89-111. - Martin Swales, New Media, Virtual Reality, Flawed Utopia? Reflections on Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg and Hermann Hesse’s Der Steppenwolf, in Hermann Hesse Today / Hermann Hesse Heute, Brill 2015, pp. 33-39. - Gianluca Paolucci, La magia, i media e il teatro epico, in Francesco Fiorentino (a cura di), Brecht e i media, Studi Germanici 2013, pp. 33-63. - Gianluca Paolucci, Brecht, Jünger e la fotografia in guerra, in Francesco Fiorentino - Valentina Valentini (a cura di), Brecht e la fotografia, Bulzoni 2015, pp. 143-167.Type of delivery of the course
Lectures with discussionAttendance
Attendance and active participation in the lectures are highly recommended. Non attending students are kindly requested to contact the Professor.Type of evaluation
Oral examination.