GERMAN LITERATURE III
cod. 15024

Academic year 2019/20
3° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Letteratura tedesca (L-LIN/13)
Field
Letterature straniere
Type of training activity
Characterising
30 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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Learning objectives

The course aims to contextualize German literature after 1933.
The course aims to:
- consider authors, currents and works in their historical, political, and aesthetic position.
- familiarize with literary texts, appreciating linguistic specificity and structural complexity.
- extend the knowledge of the covered topics by the autonomous use of scientific bibliography.
- identify the salient features of literary texts in order to realise the variety of the concept of "German language".

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

The course concerns the most important authors and movements of German language literature after 1933. Narrative texts, poems and plays will be read and examined. The detailed examination program will be provided by the lecturer at the end of the course.

Full programme

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Bibliography

W. Beutin u.a., Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, Metzler, Stuttgart 2008
R. Calzoni, La letteratura tedesca del secondo dopoguerra. L'età delle macerie e della ricostruzione (1945-1961), Carocci, Roma 2013

Teaching methods

The course aims to contextualize German literature after 1933.
The course aims to:
- consider authors, currents and works in their historical, political, and aesthetic position.
- familiarize with literary texts, appreciating linguistic specificity and structural complexity.
- extend the knowledge of the covered topics by the autonomous use of scientific bibliography.
- identify the salient features of literary texts in order to realise the variety of the concept of "German language".

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination mainly in German with following skills assessment:
- knowledge of movements, authors and works dealt with in regard to their historical and cultural context;
- the ability to process the contents of the course, aiming the formulation of autonomous judgments that should increase the obtained information;
- ability to apply these skills to the analysis of literary texts with the contextualization in their original dimension;
- competence in German language corresponding to level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Other information

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