GERMAN LITERATURE II
LETTERATURA TEDESCA II
“Raphael’s Mitteleuropean Myth between Grand Tour and Contemporaneity”
“Il Mito mitteleuropeo di Raffaello tra Grand Tour e Contemporaneità”
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| 2020/2021 | 8 |
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| Andrea Benedetti | By appointment or see the Scuola di Lingue homepage |
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Course partially taught in a foreign language
German
This course is taught partially in Italian and partially in a foreign language. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
In the context of Raffaello Sanzio’s 500th anniversary of death, the course aims at analyzing some (prose) works made by German intellectuals and artists (writers, painters and essayists) from 1700 to the present. By examining writings dealing with Raphael and relating them to his works of art, its goal will be to investigate features, birth and development of the boundless admiration of the Mitteleuropean German-speaking culture for the Genius from Urbino.
To this end, the course will first provide a general introduction on German literature between Enlightenment (Aufklärung) and Romanticism (Romantik) on the basis of the following text, Marino Freschi: La Letteratura Tedesca, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2008, pp. 37-102.
The above mentioned works will then be examined by focusing on the relationship between the experience of beauty (image) and the realm of text interpretation (words). Within this framework some general remarks will be made on the most recent outcomes in the field of cognitive science and neuroscience researches (neurohermeneutics).
Program
The course will examine the birth and the literary elaboration of Raffaello Sanzio’s myth (1483-1520), “the divine painter”, in the context of his 500th anniversary of death and on the background of German literature from 1700 to the present.
After a general introduction on German literature between the Enlightenment and the Classic-Romantic Age, the analysis of some writings dealing with his myth will be carried out by referring to quite a few number of fiction (novels) and non-fiction texts (Reiseberichte [true travel accounts], letters, fictitious autobiographies) written by Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773-1798), Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853), Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869), Franz Pforr (1788-1812), Johann David Passavant (1787-1861) and Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916-1991).
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
The course comprises classroom lessons as well as seminars.
- Course books
Primary Literature:
A) Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder:
1) Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder: “La visione di Raffaello”, in Id., “Effusioni di cuore di un monaco amante dell’arte”, in Opere e lettere. Scritti di arte, estetica e morale. In collaborazione con Ludwig Tieck, Testo tedesco a fronte, a cura di Elena Agazzi, Federica La Manna e Andrea Benedetti, Bompiani, Milano, 2014 [WHW Opere], pp. 106-113.
2) Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder: “Omaggio alla memoria del nostro venerabile antenato Albrecht Dürer da parte di un monaco amante dell’arte”, in Id., “Effusioni di cuore di un monaco amante dell’arte”, in WHW Opere, pp. 176-189.
3) Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder: “Resoconti di viaggio di Wackenroder”, in WHW Opere, pp. 1100-1103.
B) Wolfgang Hildesheimer:
1) Wolfgang Hildesheimer: Marbot. Viaggio immaginario tra i grandi dell’Ottocento, tr. it. di Bettino Betti, Frassinelli, Milano, 1985, pp. 202-232.
2) Wolfgang Hildesheimer: “Marbot”, in Id., Gesammelte Werke in sieben Bänden, herausgegeben von Christiaan Lucas Hart Nibbrig und Volker Jehle, Band IV: Biographische Prosa, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. M., 1991, pp. 199-227.
Secondary Literature:
A) On the Enlightenment and the Classic-Romantic Age:
1) Andrea Benedetti: Tra parola e immagine: una rilettura dei Reiseberichte (1793) di Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder alla luce della circolarità ermeneutica, Campanotto, Pasian di Prato – Udine, 2019, pp. 57-110 and pp. 145-172.
2) Marino Freschi: La Letteratura Tedesca, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2008, pp. 37-102.
3) Hans Belting: Das unsichtbare Meisterwerk. Die modernen Mythen der Kunst, Beck, München, 1998, pp. 83-101 (It. transl. Hans Belting: “Il sogno di Raffaello”, in Id., Il capolavoro invisibile. Il mito moderno dell’arte, Carocci, Roma, 2018, pp. 67-90).
B) On Wolfgang Hildesheimer:
1) Raul Calzoni: La letteratura tedesca contemporanea. L’età della divisione e della riunificazione, Carocci, Roma, 20181, pp. 21-33 (Wolfgang Hildesheimer).
2) Lorella Bosco: “‘Art and Life’. La biografia come maschera ed enigma nel Marbot di Hildesheimer”, in «Cultura Tedesca», n. 54 (June 2018), pp. 141-154.
The following texts will be made available on the Platform “Blended Learning Uniurb” (Moodle):
- Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder: “La visione di Raffaello”, in Id., “Effusioni di cuore di un monaco amante dell’arte”, in Opere e lettere. Scritti di arte, estetica e morale. In collaborazione con Ludwig Tieck, Testo tedesco a fronte, a cura di Elena Agazzi, Federica La Manna e Andrea Benedetti, Bompiani, Milano, 2014 [WHW Opere], pp. 106-113.
- Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder: “Omaggio alla memoria del nostro venerabile antenato Albrecht Dürer da parte di un monaco amante dell’arte”, in Id., “Effusioni di cuore di un monaco amante dell’arte”, in WHW Opere, pp. 176-189.
- Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder: “Resoconti di viaggio di Wackenroder”, in WHW Opere, pp. 1100-1103.
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer: Marbot. Viaggio immaginario tra i grandi dell’Ottocento, tr. it. di Bettino Betti, Frassinelli, Milano, 1985, pp. 202-232.
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer: “Marbot”, in Id., Gesammelte Werke in sieben Bänden, herausgegeben von Christiaan Lucas Hart Nibbrig und Volker Jehle, Band IV: Biographische Prosa, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. M., 1991, pp. 199-227.
- Hans Belting: Das unsichtbare Meisterwerk. Die modernen Mythen der Kunst, Beck, München, 1998, pp. 83-101 (It. transl. Hans Belting: “Il sogno di Raffaello”, in Id., Il capolavoro invisibile. Il mito moderno dell’arte, Carocci, Roma, 2018, pp. 67-90).
- Raul Calzoni: La letteratura tedesca contemporanea. L’età della divisione e della riunificazione, Carocci, Roma, 20181, pp. 21-33 (Wolfgang Hildesheimer).
- Lorella Bosco: “‘Art and Life’. La biografia come maschera ed enigma nel Marbot di Hildesheimer”, in «Cultura Tedesca», n. 54 (June 2018), pp. 141-154.
Quite a few number of fiction (novels) and non-fiction texts (Reiseberichte [true travel accounts], letters, fictitious autobiographies), written by Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Ludwig Tieck, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Franz Pforr, Johann David Passavant and Wolfgang Hildesheimer, will be made available on the Platform “Blended Learning Uniurb” (Moodle); they will be identified as “esercitazioni in classe” (“classroom exercises”).
Notes
Una parte del corso sarà tenuta in lingua tedesca. Teil des Kurses wird auf Deutsch gehalten werden.
Die StudentInnen können auf Nachfrage die Prüfung in deutscher Sprache mit einer Alternativbibliographie halten.
Part of the course will be taught in German. The students can request to sit the final exam in German with an alternative bibliography.
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