Università Roma Tre

German Literature II (12 CFU)

AIMS:
• provide students with a broad understanding of German literature from the eighteenth through the first part of the nineteenth century with a specific focus on intercultural and transcultural dynamics and special attention to the theoretical and methodological debates;
• develop students’ close reading skills (upper-intermediate level) applied to German literary texts (also in the original language) through the use of tools and methodologies of literary, cultural, and historical analysis in order to promote an independent approach to critical interpretation;
• stimulate students to apply the acquired skills to translation, rewriting, and adaptation into Italian also in a transmedial context (upper-intermediate level);
• develop upper-intermediate communication skills for the processing and transmission of topics related to the field of study in different intercultural contexts, both academic and non-academic.

Pre-requisite: German Literature I; German Language and Translation I