FPF:UCJNUK14 History of poetry - Course Information

UCJNUK14 History of poetry

Extent and Intensity

0/8/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. Dr. phil. Martin Maurach (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Dr. phil. Martin Maurach
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

• Secondary School Teacher Training in German (programme FPF, N7504 UcSS)

Course objectives

What kind of beast, after all, might be a poem? How can it be distinguished from prose works, e.g. a short story or perhaps - a user's manual? How can poems be analysed in a well-structured, informed way? How did this literary genre develop during, say, the last 400 years? Do poems anyhow matter politically or in society? Drawing on the most important periods of the history of poetry, this course tries to find answers to at least some of these questions. It is going to draw on texts by Claudius, Gryphius, Goethe, Hölderlin, Fontane, Brecht, Benn and others. The seminar combines elements from both a lecture and practical exercises. Special emphasis will lie on analysing form and structure of individual texts as exactly as possible. In this way the students are to learn step by step how to analyse less complicated poems which yet are important and representative of their genre on their own. In addition, the attention of students ist to be drawn to fundamental changes in the general picture of literary genres during the course of history. With the help of poetological essays from the 19th century the aesthetical base of the concept of "Erlebnislyrik" is to be introduced, which for a long time after Goethe's death still has worked as the most important distinguishing mark of poetry in general. Based on cute reflections by the literary historian Peter Wapnewski it is to be contrasted with the modernist view of poetry from the 20th century which is based on form.

Syllabus

• 1. Andreas Gryphius, Martin Opitz
  2. Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Matthias Claudius, Christian F. Gellert, Ludwig Gleim
  3. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
  4. Friedrich Schiller
  5. Novalis
  6. Heinrich Heine
  7. Theodor Fontane and the ballad
  8. Stefan George, Rainer Maria Rilke
  9. Gottfried Benn, Bertolt Brecht
  10. Paul Celan, Erich Fried
  11. Durs Grünbein and contemporary poetry
  

Language of instruction

German

Further Comments

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

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