Course: Literature And The Landscape

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Course title Literature And The Landscape
Course code KGER/LKA
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 8
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Němec Miroslav, doc. Dr. phil.
Course content
Introduction Landscape and literature Porta Bohemica: A Breakthrough to New Literary Landscapes The work of Jewish writers writing in German from Bukowina. The intertextuality of Jewish contexts. The multilingual soul of (Post)Kakánska Loss of home and linguistic home: German-language lyricism by Eastern European authors Mountain regions: a comparison - Carpathian-Sudeten-Harz Thrown into the wrong landscape: the South Moravian lyricist Josef Reif (1891-1971) Banat family saga in the gears of history. The novel "Habseligkeit" by Eichard Wagner Danube landscapes in the work of German-speaking authors from Romania Final discussion

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
Participants will have the opportunity to listen to papers and discuss with international scientists, writers and journalists. The common denominator of the papers and the discussion is to highlight the possibilities or impossibilities of capturing a particular landscape in literature.Geographically, the papers deal with Central and Eastern Europe in the works of German-speaking authors.
- thinking about literature - Thinking about literary approaches to space - Learning about narratives of space - Learning about historical German-speaking - landscapes and their cultural heritage - improve communicative competence
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Active participation and summary of one of the papers
Recommended literature
  • Bachmann-Medick, Doris: Spatial Turn. Neuorientierungen in den Kulturwissenschaften, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2014. .
  • Becher, Peter/ Höhne, Steffen/ Krappmann, Jörg/ Weinberg, Manfred (eds.). Handbuch der deutschen Literatur Prags und der Böhmischen Länder. Stuttgart. 2017.
  • Belina, Bernd/ Michel, Boris (eds.). Raumproduktionen. Beiträge der Radical Geography. Eine Zwischenbilanz. Münster. 2008.
  • Hodrová, Daniela. Poetika míst. Kapitoly z literární tematologie. Jinočany. 1997.
  • Weber, Kurt-Heinz. Die literarische Landschaft. Zur Geschichte ihrer Entdeckung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Berlin. 2001.


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