Selected Chapters of German Literature II.

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

Teaching Results:
Knowledge:
• Acquisition of knowledge about the main development lines in the history of German literature, about their most important representatives and their works.
The course is primarily focused on acquiring knowledge in the field of development of German literature and its most important periods. In addition to gaining knowledge of the history of English literature, students will also acquire generally applicable knowledge, broaden their cultural horizon and understand the connections between socio-historical and literary phenomena and events. Based on gaining an overview of individual periods and specific literary works, students will develop personal attitudes to events and their reflections in literature. The given knowledge is also applicable in related subjects and fields of study.
Competences:
• deepening critical thinking by reading and analyzing specific literary texts;
• understanding of basic terminology in the field of literary theory and its correct use in the analysis of literary works;
• competence to characterize individual literary directions, currents and schools and to abstract these characteristics from a specific literary text;
• competence in the field of linguistic analysis of a text on the basis of knowledge of the historical, social and cultural background of the period.
Skills:
• skill in the application of literary text analysis procedures - determination of the external and internal structure of the text, type of narrator, classification and characterization of characters, literary space, etc .;
• ability to analyze and express a critical opinion on representative works of selected authors of individual literary directions;
• the ability to assign a literary text to a specific literary period, current or school;
• skill in the intercultural approach to literature - the influence of world literatures on German literature and vice versa.

Indicative content

Indicative content:
- German literature of the Romantic period
- Literary period "Vormärz" and „Biedermeier“. Literary movement "Junges Deutschland"
- German literature of the period of Realism and Naturalism
- German literature of the 20th century
- German Literature in the Postwar Period (1945 - 2010)
- Contemporary German literature

Support literature

Support literature:
Required:
1. BEUTIN, Wolfgang. Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. 9. Aufl., J. B. Metzler Verlag: Stuttgart, 2019. ISBN 978-3-476-04952-0
2. BRÖSSEL, Stephen. Die Zukunft zwischen Goethezeit und Realismus. Literarische Zeitreflexion der Zwischenphase (1820–1850). J. B. Metzler: Stuttgart, 2021. ISBN 978-3-662-63017-4
3. JESSING, Benedikt/KÖHNEN, Ralph. Einführung in die Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft. J. B. Metzler Verlag: Stuttgart, 2017. ISBN 978-3-476-04494-5
4. ADAMCOVÁ, Lívia/ADAMCOVÁ, Silvia. Grundlagen der deutschen Literatur. Praesens Verlag: Wien, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7069-0810-8
Optional:
1. BURDORF, Dieter et al. (2007): Metzler Lexikon Literatur. J. B. Metzler Verlag: Stuttgart, 2007. ISBN 978-3-476-01612-6
2. BUTZER, Günter/JACOB, Joachim. Metzler Lexikon literarischer Symbole. J. B. Metzler Verlag: Stuttgart, 2021. ISBN 978-3-476-04944-5
3. LUTZ, Bernd/JESSING, Benedikt. Metzler Lexikon Autoren: Deutschsprachige Dichter und Schriftsteller vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. J. B. Metzler Verlag: Stuttgart, 2010. ISBN 978-3476023049

Requirements to complete the course

Requirements to complete the course:
Interim evaluation: 40%
Final evaluation: 60%

Student workload

Total study load (in hours):
Full-time study: 104 hours
26 hours of seminars
30 hours of preparation for the seminars and for the interim evaluation
48 hours of preparation for the exam

Language whose command is required to complete the course

German

Date of approval: 08.03.2024

Date of the latest change: 02.05.2022