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German texts: capita selecta 2 - Expressionism and its effects
Course Code :1012FLWTLD
Study domain:Literature
Bi-anuall course:Taught in academic years starting in an even year
Semester:Semester: 2nd semester
Contact hours:30
Credits:4
Study load (hours):112
Contract restrictions: No contract restriction
Language of instruction :German
Exam period:exam in the 2nd semester
Tutor(s)Vivian Liska

 

1. Prerequisites

At the start of this course the student should have acquired the following competences:
Specific prerequisites for this course:
Good knowledge of German

2. Learning outcomes

Knowledge of the cultural and historical context of the expressionist period and of the poems and prose texts by Gottfried Benn, Kafka, Döblin and other expressionist authors discussed in the course. An understanding and practical application of theoretical concepts that are important for the literature of this period. Basic competence in close reading of modernist texts.


3. Course contents

DER EXPRESSIONISMUS UND SEINE FOLGEN

Expressionism is often considered to be the last specifically German modernist movement. An analysis of several important expressionist poems and prose texts is followed by a discussion of the "expressionism-debate" of 1938. This debate will be investigated on the basis of theoretical texts about expressionism's poetics and politics by some of the major authors and thinkers that participated in it (Gottfried Benn, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukàcs). The course will close with reflections about the actuality of expressionism for our times.


4. Teaching method

Class contact teaching:
  • Lectures
  • Seminars

    • Personal work:
  • Assignments:Individually
  • Assignments:In group
  • Paper: Individually
  • Paper: In group


    • 5. Assessment method and criteria

    Examination:
  • Oral with written preparation
  • Open book

    • Continuous assessment:
  • Assignments

    • Written assignment:
  • Without oral presentation

    • Presentation
    6. Study material

    Required reading

    Gedichte des Expressionismus, Reclam Verlag.
    A reader with additional primary and secondary literature will be made available to the students at the beginning of the course.

    Optional reading

    The following study material can be studied on a voluntary basis:

    Frank Krause, Literarischer Expressionismus, UTB, 2008

    Kurt Pinthus, Menschheitsdämmerung (für zusätzliche Gedichte)

    Paul Raabe, Der Kampf um eine literarische Bewegung (für theoretische Texte)

    Die Expressionismusdebatte (für eine Dokumentation der Positionen 1938)

    Thomas Anz & Michael Stark, Die Modernität des Expressionismus, Metzler Verlag)

    Rothe, Wolfgang (Hrsg.). Expressionismus als Literatur. Bern & München: Francke, 1969.

    Steffen, Hans. Der deutsche Expressionismus. Formen und Gestalten. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1970.



    7. Contact information

    Prof. Dr. Vivian Liska

    Deutsche Literatur

    Dept. Letteren en Wijsbegeerte

    Universiteit Antwerpen

    Lange Winkelstraat 40-42, 4 verdieping

    Post adres:

    Prinsstraat 13 L.400

    BE-2000-Antwerpen

     

    Tel: +32 3 265 52 44

    Fax: +32 3 275 52 41

    Mobiel: +32 475 38 0000

    e-mail: vivian.liska@ua.ac.be  


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