Course title: ‘Literature Goes to War’
This annual course provides 9 credits and consists of 54 hours of lessons (36 hours in the first semester and 18 in the second semester).
The course will be held in Italian.
The first 18 hours of the course (first semester) will be dedicated to a survey of literature from the 18th century to the present day (taught by Serena Spazzarini)*
This course aims to study literary texts of the German-speaking region, in their inherent aesthetic character and as a privileged pathway to understanding German culture.
At the end of the course, the student shall:
Students are not required to have any specific prerequisite.
It goes without saying that good linguistic competence in spoken and written Italian, skills in expression, and the background required for understanding the Europen historical context (acquired through proper secondary school learning), are taken for granted.
Traditional lesson with the professor teaching the whole class in the classroom.
Teaching will be in Italian.
During the lessons, constant feedback with the students is expected through verbal questions. The degree of maturity of the answers, their relevance and the use of adequate sector-specific terms will be considered for the outcome of the final test.
The course entitled ‘Literature Goes to War’ will focus on the shaping of the image of the enemy that took place in the Austro-German and German region during World War I.
The forms and themes of war propaganda, considered as cultural heritage and as a dynamic field of interactions, will be explored through the voices of the period's most representative authors.
The course will be structured as follows:
* Lessons taught by Serena Spazzarini.
Authors studied: Goethe – Heine – Fontane – Brecht – T. Mann – Kafka – Ch. Wolf
REFERENCES
It will be the professor’s responsibility to provide the students, in each instance, with photocopies related to the documents studied during lessons and to prepare lecture notes at the end of the course.
A copy of the lecture notes will be filed at the Department Library.
NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:
Non-attending students shall present the programme specified above, with the above cited critical literature and with the addition of the following textbook:
- Franz Blei, Bestiario letterario (a cura di L. Rega), Diabasis, Parma, 2019
Non-attending students are in any case kindly requested to contact the professor.
Ricevimento: See personal page (In: www.lingue.unige.it)
NICOLETTA DACREMA (President)
MICHAELA BÜRGER-KOFTIS
SERENA SPAZZARINI
October 1, 2019
First Semester: Tuesday 16.00-17.00
Friday 12.00-14.00
Second Semester: Friday 12.00-14.00
Written test.
Learning assessment includes a written test.
Knowledge related to the course will be assessed via:
Reference textbook: Alberto Destro, I Paesi di lingua tedesca, Il Mulino, 2004 (Manual)
Constant updating on the part of the student on current German political topics (by reading newspapers, listening to TV and radio newscasts) is ‘welcome’.
2) Open-ended questions in which the student shall demonstrate knowledge of concepts related to the topic of the course.
The skills achieved by the student shall be evaluated through targeted exercises, in which the student shall demonstrate the ability to apply the tools provided during the lessons.
Textbooks in references + lecture notes
3) Open-ended questions about the themes dealt in classroom by Serena Spazzarini
Criteria for assigning the final mark:
. skill in debate and summarisation.
. syntactically correct writing and use of the specific terminology of war literature
. capability to organise written text with clarity of thought
