Objectives and competences
The objective of this course is to acquaint students with the characteristics of medieval society, culture and literature in the German-speaking area
Content (Syllabus outline)
• Models of literary historiography and their applicability.
• Medieval society and culture.
• The concept of literaricity and problems of periodization in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.
• System-theoretical aspects of literary history in the Middle Ages and the problem of literary autonomy.
• Pre-modern society and processes of individualization, territorialization and secularization.
• Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
• German literature in the Early Middle Ages: German heroic poetry, Christian literature.
• German literature in the High Middle Ages: religious literary traditions, lyrical and epic knightly literature.
• German literature in the Late Middle Ages: lyrical and epic knightly and middle-class literature, development of drama, mystical literature, popular poetry.
• Passages from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period.
Learning and teaching methods
• Lectures,,
• homework assignments and active participation
• e-learning
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
• demonstrate knowledge of cultural-historical and literary-historical processes in the Middle Ages,
• recognize the role of those processes for construction of collective and individual identities,
• identify structural and functional changes of the medieval and modern literary discourse in correlation to the social contexts,
• explain the influence of social changes on the autonomy of literary communication in the Middle Ages,
• apply the literary-theoretical and cultural-historical methods of medievistic literary analysis.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
• communication skills,
• using information technology (finding information on the internet).
Readings
• Bumke, J. 2002: Höfische Kultur. Literatur und Gesellschaft im hohen Mittelalter, 10. izdaja, DTV, München.
• Erfen, I. 2005: Einführung in die germanistische Mediävistik, Metzler, Stuttgart.
• Haug, W. 2003: Die Wahrheit der Fiktion, Niemeyer, Tübingen.
• Kartschoke, D. 2000: Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im frühen Mittelalter, 3.izdaja, DTV, München.
• Cramer, T. 2000: Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im späten Mittelalter, 3. izdaja, DTV, München.
Prerequisits
Prerequisits for acceding the course:
None.
Conditions for prerequisits:
To be allowed to attend the written examination, the student has to manifest active participation during classes.
Additional information on implementation and assessment • written examination 70 %
• homework assignments and active participation 30 %
