Literature, Arts, Media (German)

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: knowledge of the theoretical debate on intermediality; assimilation of methods and analytical tools for the study of specific examples (e.g., comics, cinema, photography, theatre); acquisition of appropriate terminology for the analysis of specific intermedial forms.
Ability to Apply Knowledge and Understanding: developing the ability to analyse German literary texts from the last two centuries and their intermedial transformations; achieving the ability to participate in seminar discussions in English on the topics covered in the course.