German Literature Seminar

Code:

LLC116

Acronym:

SL_LLC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	German Studies

Instance: 2020/2021 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Germanic Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LLC	17	LLC - Monodisciplinary Study Plan	1	-	6	52	162
			2
			3
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Portuguese Studies)	2	-	6	52	162
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Two Foreign Languages)	3	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The curricular unit intends to provide incentive to the student to critically watch films and read works of literature, increasing their analytical capacity, providing them with those instruments necessary in order to be able to undertake a profound analysis. Simultaneously, the relations will be studied between literature and cinema through the analysis of the adaptation of Thomas Mann's 'Novelle' 'Der Tod in Venedig (1911) by Luchino Visconto (in his film 'Morte a Venezia', made in 1971).

Learning outcomes and competences

The student should become more critical, with the capacity to read literature and films and understand how literary works are adapted to the screen.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Knowledge of German.

Program

German Literature and German Cinema (1930-2009)

0. Methodological considerations
1. Interpreting works of cinema 
2. Literature and cinema
3. German Cinema: viewing and discussion of representative films from 1930 to 2009
- Fritz Lang: M. Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931)
- Leni Riefenstahl: Triumph des Willens (1935)
- Wolfgang Staudte:Der Untertan (1951)
- Wim Wenders: Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (1971)
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Lilli Marleen (1981)
- Wolfgang Petersen: Das Boot (1981) 
- Wolfgang Becker: Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) 
- Oliver Hirschbiegel: Der Untergang (2004)
- Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck: Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
- Michael Haneke: Das weiße Band (2009)
4. Analysis of the adaptation adaptation of Thomas Mann's 'Novelle' 'Der Tod in Venedig (1911) by Luchino Visconto (in his film 'Morte a Venezia', made in 1971)

Mandatory literature

Thomas Mann; Der^Tod in Venedig und andere Erzãhlungen. ISBN: 3-436-00065-5

Complementary Bibliography

(eds.) Jennifer Kapczynski / Michael Richardson; A New Short History of German Cinema, Camden House, 2012
McFarlane, Brian; Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation, Clarendon, Oxford, 1996
Monaco, James; How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia: Language, History, Oxford University Press, 2000
Joachim Paech ; Literatur und Film, Metzler, 1997

Teaching methods and learning activities

Seminars, with theoretical exposition and discussion of texts / films

keywords

Humanities > Literature > European literature > Germanic literature > German literature

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	25,00
Exame	75,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	54,00
Frequência das aulas	52,00
Trabalho de investigação	56,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

At least 75% in class

Calculation formula of final grade

Presentation in class: 25%
Final exam: 75%

Examinations or Special Assignments

n.a.

Internship work/project

n.a.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

n.a.

Classification improvement

Resit of exam and resubmission of the presentation possible.