German Literature and Intermedial Studies

The course aims at providing a historical and theoretical-methodological introduction to intermedial studies, understood as the union of different artistic languages (literature and figurative arts, ekphrasis, photography, multimedia texts) and as the transformation from one medium to another (e.g. adaptations of literary texts to comics and film), and to present examples of intermedial declinations of German-language literary texts, focusing on the twentieth century and the new millennium. The proposed topics will be addressed both through lectures and seminar discussions, which are intended to stimulate interaction and discussion among the participants.

Knowledge and understanding: orientation on the theoretical debate on intermedial studies; assimilation of the methods and tools for the analysis of the individual examples proposed (e.g. comics, cinema, photography); acquisition of an appropriate vocabulary for the analysis of specific intermedial forms.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: acquisition of the ability to analyse German literary texts of the last two centuries and their intermedial adaptation; attainment of skills of discussion in German in a seminar context on the topics covered in the course.