Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

German Literature

Code

722101021

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Alemães

Credits

10

Teacher in charge

Fernando Ribeiro

Weekly hours

3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

• To acquire knowledge of literary-aesthetic-cultural nature of the first quarter of the XXth century in German;
• To read critically axial German authors;
• To develop skills for reflective and interactive reading of literary texts and their relation to history.

Prerequisites

Subject matter

1.Comprehending Modernity in german narratives of XXth’s first quarter by studying identity crisis represenred by the narrator;observing and emphasizing literary characteristics to focus on tradition renewal, by assimilating identity crisis to a natural expression of multiple subject’s voices along with Der Steppenwolf, Kurzgefasster Lebenslauf:Hesse; Ein Bericht für eine Akademie,Die Verwandlung:Kafka; Der Tod in Venedig:Th.Mann;Die Verwirrungen des jungen Törless:Musil;Traumnovelle,FräuleinElse:Schnitzler;BriefeinerUnbkannten,Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau:Zweig close reading within a psychico-sociological contextualization.
2.Observing and emphasizing diegetic features heading Moderne aesthetic strategy to present, through «irony», silence-perplexity overcoming within narrative discourse by axials close reading. Improving essays on aesthetical-social-historical interaction aiming better comprehension of Moderne’s aesthetics.

Bibliography

-AAVV (2012). Die Literarische Moderne in Europa.I Bd. Opladen:Westdeuscher
-AAVV (2010). Kafka.Handbuch.Leben-Werk-Wirkung.Stutt.:Metzler.
-AAVV (2011)Handbuch der Kunstzitate:Malerei, Skulptur, Fotografie in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Moderne.2vols. B.: Gruyter.
-Bauer,A .(1985). Stefan Zweig, B.: Colloquium Verlag.
-Below,J.(2012). Hermann Hesse-Handbuch:Quellentexte zu Leben,Werk und Wirkung, F/M:Lang.
-Bergengruen, M.(2010).Neurasthenie : die Krankheit der Moderne und die moderne Literatur. F.a.B:Rombach.
-Dawidowski, Ch.,(2000) Die geschwächte Moderne. Robert Musils episches Frühwerk im Speigel der Epochendebatte, F/M:Lang.
-Lange, S.(2001),Raumkonstruktionen in der Moderne : Kultur, Literatur, Film,Bielefeld: Aisthesis.
-Perlmann, M.(1987). Der Traum in der literarischen Moderne : Untersuchungen zum Werk Arthur Schnitzlers.München : Fink.
-Vietta, S.(2001).Ästhetik der Moderne : Literatur und Bild.M.

Teaching method

Lectures and axial text explanation; comment on complementary text; synthesis and historical-cultural contextualization.
Synthesis lecture and subsequent role-play reading session.
Active participation in discussion is expected.

Evaluation method

Assessment:open-book test (50%); two oral presentations (5%+5%) and a written work of 16 pages/20 ll./page (40%).

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