German Literature II

Paper Code: 
GER 602
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to -

  1. Get introduced with  various literary forms and analyzethem
  2. Become familiar with the literary ages / periods; analyze their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative writers, create own viewpoints about them

Course Outcomes (COs):

CO 48- The course enables students to understand the definition and the concept of “Gedicht” in German with the reading of some representative works by renowned German authors.

CO 49- The course also enables students to understand the definition and the concept of  “Kurzgeschichte”  in German with the reading of some representative works by renowned German authors..

CO 50- The course helps students develop an insight in order to understand, analyzesalient features, trends, characteristics and purposes of “Gedicht” and  “Kurzgeschichte”  in German with the reading of some representative works by renowned German authors and also understand their  tendencies and  individual traits.

 

 

9.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1
  • GEDICHT
  • Burkhard Garbe: Für Sorge
  • Rudolf Otto Wiemer: Empfindungswörter
  • Rudolf Otto Wiemer: Unbestimmte zahlwörter
  • Heinrich Heine: Das Fräulein stand am Meere
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wanderers Nachtlied

 

9.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2
  • GEDICHT
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Heidenröslein
  • Heinrich Heine: Die Loreley
  • Bertolt Brecht: Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters

 

9.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3
  • GEDICHT
  • Friedrich Schiller: Der Handschuh
  • Hermann Hesse: Bhagavadgita

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4
  • KURZGESCHICHTE
  • Heinrich Böll: Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral

 

9.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5
  • KURZGESCHICHTE
  • Peter Bichsel: die Tochter
  • Henning Venske : Eine schöne Beziehung

 

Essential Readings: 

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

  • Reader ( compiled book for German Literature)
  • *Teacher will give the relevant texts to the students as handouts!

 

References: 

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Academic Year: