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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.

  • izr. prof. dr. DEJAN KOS

  • Written examination: 70
  • Collaboration in lectures, tutorials and lab work: 30

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