READINGS: LITERATURE ON THE EDGE: PASSION - MADNESS - SUICIDE (THREE CENTURIES OF STORY TELLING)
| Title | ΠΕΡΙΔΙΑΒΑΣΕΙΣ: ΟΡΙΑΚΕΣ ΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΕΙΣ ΣΤΗ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑ: ΠΑΘΟΣ, ΤΡΕΛΑ, ΑΥΤΟΚΤΟΝΙΑ (ΕΠΙΛΟΓΗ ΔΙΗΓΗΜΑΤΩΝ) / READINGS: LITERATURE ON THE EDGE: PASSION - MADNESS - SUICIDE (THREE CENTURIES OF STORY TELLING) |
| Title in German | Streifzüge: Grenzsituationen in der Literatur: Leidenschaft - Wahnsinn - Selbstmord (Erzählungen aus drei Jahrhunderten) |
| Code | ΕΠ0548 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | German Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | Yes |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600019551 |
Programme of Study: PPS Tmīmatos Germanikīs Glṓssas kai Filologías (2020-sīmera)
Registered students: 165
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses | Winter/Spring | - | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2020 – 2021 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Class ID | 600166127
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Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600166127
- At the Website of the School:
- eLearning (Moodle):
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- German (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Familiarization of students with texts (18-19-20th century) of the German and world literature that explore extreme and (self-) destructive behavior / familiarization of students with the narrative means by which the “extreme” is constructed / ability to connect literary texts to their social, cultural and historical context/ ability to discover intertextual relations/ improvement of the students critical thought.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Design and manage projects
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Respect natural environment
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
There are works in world literature that explore extreme situations of the human psyche with particular intensity and the main characters of which have become symbols of (self-) destructive behavior. Some of these works are: Werther by Goethe, Lenz by Büchner, Der Sandmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. On the basis of such texts –mainly novellas –, written in the 18th, 19th and 20th century (the corpus will be enriched by proposals of the students), the course will investigate questions such as: By which literary means the “extreme” is constructed? What is the connection of the texts with other discourses of the era in which they were created (medicine/psychiatry, criminology, ethics etc.)? Are there any intertextual relations between the single works? Why they belong to the literary canon until today?
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Student Assessment
Description
Active perticipation, oral presentation, written essay
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Martin Andree: Wenn Texte töten. Über Werther, Medienwirkung und Mediengewalt. München: Fink 2006.
Rüdiger Bernhardt: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werther.
Helene von Bogen, Daniel Schierke (Hg.), Literatur und Wahnsinn, Frank & Timme 2014
Michel Foucault : Wahnsinn und Gesellschaft. Eine Geschichte des Wahns im Zeitalter der Vernunft, aus dem Französischen von Ulrich Köppen, Frankfurt/Main : Suhrkamp, 1969
Sigmund Freud, Das Unheimliche, Europäischer Literaturverlag 2014
Gilman Sander L., Difference and Pathology. Stereotypes of sexuality, race and madness, Cornell University Press, Ithaca και Λονδίνο 1985
Clemens Hillebrand: Labyrinthe, Arbeiten zu Georg Büchners Lenz, Scherrer & Schmidt, Köln 1996.
Ludmilla Jordanova, Nature Displayed: Gender, Science and Medicine 1760-1820. Longman, London 1999
Königs Erläuterungen: Textanalyse und Interpretation (Bd. 79).Die Leiden des jungen Werther. C. Bange Verlag, Hollfeld 2011
Dorothea Lauterbach, Uwe Spörl, Uli Wunderlich (Hg.), Grenzsituationen. Wahrnehmung, Bedeutung und Gestaltung in der neueren Literatur, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2002
Bernadette Malinowski, « Literatur und Wahnsinn – Aspekte eines kul¬tur¬hi¬sto¬ri¬schen Paradigmas », Germanica, 32 | 2003, 11-30.
Référence électronique
« Literatur und Wahnsinn – Aspekte eines kul¬tur¬hi¬sto¬ri¬schen Paradigmas Bernadette Malinowski », Germanica [En ligne], 32 | 2003, mis en ligne le 07 décembre 2012, consulté le 26 septembre 2015. URL : http://germanica.revues.org/1844
Mirja Piltz, Der Suizid in der deutschsprachigen Erzählliteratur, dargestellt in ausgewählten Werken des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie der Philosophischen Fakultäten der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 2013
http://scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2013/5447/pdf/Piltz_Dissertation.pdf
Klaus Scherpe: Werther und Wertherwirkung. Zum Syndrom bürgerlicher Gesellschaftsordnung im 18. Jahrhundert, Bad Homburg 1970
Last Update
12-07-2022
