FPF:UCJNP008 German Literature 1 - Course Information
UCJNP008 German Literature 1
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2017
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Miroslav Urbanec, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Miroslav Urbanec, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- German for Teachers (programme FPF, B7310 Filo)
- Course objectives
- The course deals with the German literature of the 20th century, the periodization and the most important directions and trends. Attention is given to the history of German literature from naturalism to the present, including the period after the reunification of Germany in the year 1990. Information about the most important authors and literary periods of German literary history will be included. The seminars will be based on the topics covered in the lectures. The focus of the course is the interpretation of selected literary works. The basis of the text analysis is student reading. The seminars will be realised in the form of homework assignments and consultations with the lecturer.
- Syllabus
- Introduction (Part I): What is, and why and how to write literary history
Introduction (Part II): How to read and analyse literary texts
Literature from about 1900: Gerhart Hauptmann, Rainer Maria Rilke, and others
The circle around Stefan George
Literary expressionism and dadaism
Literature from the Weimar Republic, the 'Third Reich', and the Exile. Special focus at the works of Alfred Döblin, Ernst Jünger, Franz Kafka, Heinrich and Thomas Mann, and others.
Bertolt Brecht and German drama in the 20th century
The role of the Gruppe 1947 in German literature after war
Womnen's writing in the 20th century
The two German states, their reunification, and literary history
1914 through 1989: A 'short' 20th century, and its reflection in literary works?
- Introduction (Part I): What is, and why and how to write literary history
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Anmerkung: Detailliertere, auf die Hausaufgaben bezogene Literatur-Angaben finden sich unter der Beschreibung der einzelnen Lehr-Einheiten. info
- Fähnders, Walter. Avantgarde und Moderne 1890 - 1933. Lehrbuch Germanistik. Stuttgart / Weimar 2010. info
- Kayser, Wolfgang. Das sprachliche Kunstwerk. Eine Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft. Tübingen / Basel 1992. info
- Wiese, Benno von (Hg.). Deutsche Dichter der Moderne. Ihr Leben und Werk. Berlin 3. Aufl. 1975. info
- Steinecke, Hartmut (Hg.). Deutsche Dichter des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ihr Leben und Werk. Berlin 1994. info
- Grimm, Gunter E. / Max, Frank Rainer (Hg.). Deutsche Dichter. Stuttgart 1993. info
- Beutin, Wolfgang / Ehlert, Klaus / Emmerich, Wolfgang u. a. (Hg. Deutsche Literaturgeschichte von den Anfängen. info
- Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (Hg.). Die Gruppe 47 - Ein kritischer Grundriß. Sonderband der Edition Text + Kritik. info
- Arnold, Heinz Ludwig. Die westdeutsche Literatur 1945 bis 1990. München 1996. info
- Vietta, Silvio / Kemper, Hans-Georg. Expressionismus. München 6. Aufl. 1997. info
- Bahr, Ehrhard (Hg.). Geschichte der deutschen Literatur. Dritter Band. Vom Realismus bis zur Gegenwartsliteratur. Tübingen / Basel 2. Aufl. 1998. info
- Barner, Wilfried (Hg.). Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von 1945 bis zur Gegegnwart. München 1994. info
- Schnell, Ralf. Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur seit 1945. Stuttgart / Weimar 2. Aufl. 2003. info
- Arnold, Heinz Ludwig. Junge Lyrik. Text + Kritik, Zeitschrift für Literatur, Heft 171. München 2006. info
- Arnold, Heinz Ludwig. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Stuttgart / Weimar 2009. info
- Kindlers Literaturgeschichte der Gegenwart. Autoren, Werke, Themen, Tendenzen seit 1945. Aktualisierte Ausgabe. Frankfurt am Main 1992. info
- Emmerich, Wolfgang. Kleine Literaturgeschichte der DDR. Leipzig Erweiterte Neuaufl. 1996. info
- Arnold, Heinz Ludwig (Hg.). Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. München 1978ff. info
- Weyergraf, Bernhard (Hg.). Literatur der Weimarer Republik. München / Wien 1995 (= Hansers Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Bd. 8). info
- Opitz, Michael / Hofmann, Michael (Hg.). Metzler Lexikon der DDR-Literatur. Stuttgart 2009. info
- Ammer, Andreas. Vom Glanz und Vergehen der Gruppe 47. Dokumentation, Deutschland, 2007, 45 Min. Buch. info
- Grub, Frank Thomas. ,Wende' und ,Einheit' im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Ein Handbuch. (Band 1: Untersuchungen. Band 2: Bibliographie.) Berlin / New York 2003. info
- Lorenz, Dagmar. Wiener Moderne. Stuttgart / Weimar 1995. info
- Language of instruction
- German
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Seminář 8 HOD/SEM. - Teacher's information
- Intense, active reading (at home!), active participation in class, writing of short essays at home, written final examination.
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2017, recent)
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