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Lecturer(s)
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Horňáček Milan, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The seminar will provide students with an overview of the development of German Romanticism within the political, social, and philosophical context of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It will focus primarily on the following thematic areas: 1. The concept of Romanticism, chronological boundaries of the era, reaction to the Enlightenment 2. Early Romanticism - poetics, the concept of universal poetry, irony 3. Novalis - Heinrich von Ofterdingen as a prototypical text of Early Romanticism 4. High Romanticism - the Romantic reception of the Middle Ages, reception of folk poetry and fairy tales 5. Late Romanticism - the Napoleonic Wars and nationalism 6. Lyric Poetry 1 - Novalis: Hymnen an die Nacht 7. Lyric Poetry 2 - Brentano, Eichendorff 8. Epic Poetry 1 - the novel 9. Epic Poetry 2 - shorter prose texts 10. The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and literary fairy tales (Tieck, Hoffmann) 11. E.T.A. Hoffmann as a key author of Late Romanticism 12. Female authors of German Romanticism 13. Drama (Tieck: Verkehrte Welt)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the seminar is to familiarize students with the development of German Romanticism and its central works within the political, philosophical, and social context of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The seminar will focus in particular on: the historical development of German Romanticism; the differences between early, high, and late Romanticism; key poetological concepts (universal poetry, the fragment, irony, longing, night, nature, etc.); an analysis of significant works from this period; placement of Romantic literature within its philosophical, political, and cultural-historical context.
Students gain an overview of the development of German Romanticism from its beginnings through to the late Romantic period. They become familiar with key authors, poetological concepts, literary genres and cultural-historical contexts, and analyse selected primary texts using contemporary literary critical methods.
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Prerequisites
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A knowledge of German at a minimum of B1 level; it is recommended that students have previously completed the course 'Introduction to Literary Studies' (KGN/1ULT).
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary), Dialog
Active participation in class, no more than two unexcused absences, and a final discussion of the texts covered in the seminar.
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Recommended literature
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Kremer, detlef. Romantik. Lehrbuch Germanistik. Stuttgart. 2015.
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Safranksi, Rüdiger. Romantik, eine deutsche Affäre. München. 2007.
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Schmitz-Emans, Monika. Einführung in die Literatur der Romantik. Darmstadt. 2016.
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