| CODE | GRM5004 | ||||||
| TITLE | The Romantic Movement: Echoes in Literature and Art | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | German | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Obgleich zuerst in Deutschland auftauchend, war die Bewegung der Romantik ein zutiefst internationales Phänomen. Das Phantastische, eine neue Definition von Schönheit, eine Neuinterpretation der Natur und der Welt des Mittelalters finden sich am Ende des 18. und am Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts sowohl in Deutschland als auch in England, Frankreich, Italien und den neugegründeten Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Hauptziel dieses Kurses ist es, die Studenten mit den verschiedenen internationalen Strömungen dieses Phaenomens vertraut zu machen. In einem interdisziplinären Ansatz werden gleichzeitig auf Ausprägungen der Romantik in Kunst, Musik und Philosophie verwiesen und die wechselseitige Beeinflussung der Künste behandelt. Ein Blick auf die zeitgenössische politische und soziale Landschaft Europas soll die Entstehungsbedingungen ‘romantischer’ Kunst und Literatur im Spannungsfeld des erstarkten Bürgertums, einsetzender Industrialisierung und neuer Konzepte von Utilitarismus aufzeigen. Although firstly emerging in Germany, the Romantic Movement was a universal phenomenon spreading over to France, England, Spain, Italy, and the United States. The main goal of this course is to make the students familiar with the main aspects of Romanticism, especially the new subjective approach to nature and the interest of the Romantic authors in Burkes’ concept of the sublime. The phantastic, horror, beauty, or the glorification of the medieval world not only featured in literary works by Hoffmann, Brentano, Novalis, the early Hugo, Poe or Musset but also in paintings by Füssli or Blake. It will be also shown how the Romantic movement can be understood as a counter movement to the rationally-based approaches and concepts of utilitarism once established in the period of Enlightenment. It can be truly said that with the Romantic movement some of the basic outlines of Modern Literature and Art were laid. The students will be engaged with reading of excerpts of some of the classic works of Romantic literature and will be guided to analyze the literary structure and presentation of the subjects. In a more interdisciplinary approach it will be also shown how the Romantic movement coincides with the emerging of the new bourgeoise society and how this had determined the presentation of the individual characters in literature. Reading List Gerhard Hoffmeister, Deutsche und europäische Romantik (Stuttgart, 1990) Klaus Lankheit, Revolution und Restauration (Cologne, 1988). A further Reading List will be distributed to students at the beginning of the study-unit. Of course they can make themselves already familiar beforehand with the masterworks of Romantic Movement by Hoffmann, Brenatano, Novalis, Hugo or Musset. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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