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Analysis of literature as critically reflected practice; interpretation/understanding of literature as well-grounded activity.

The proseminar focuses on Adalbert Stifter's work as a school inspector, educational theorist and author of an outstanding educational novel in the years 1848-1857. We will first get to know Stifter's official work and his journalism. The text excerpts reveal Stifter's philosophy of education and his concrete practice, his work in schools and in his dealings with teachers, which sometimes deviated strongly from his philosophy.

Stifter initially celebrated successes, but then suffered humiliating defeats. He channelled his frustration into his new favourite project, the novel Der Nachsommer (1857), which can be read in the seminar both as a literary outstanding genre representative of the Bildungsroman and as a reaction to the sobering bureaucratic reality in school administrations.

Discussion, presentation, paper (12pag.).

In selection, a comprehensive bibliography is to be provided:

Becker, Sabina: Nachsommerliche Sublimationsrituale. Inszenierte Ordnung in Adalbert Stifters ‚Nachsommer‘. In: Dies. u. Katharina Grätz (Hg.): Ordnung – Raum – Ritual. Adalbert Stifters artifizieller Realismus. Heidelberg: Winter 2007, 315–338.

Begemann, Christian: Erschriebene Ordnung. Adalbert Stifters ‚Nachsommer‘. In: Dorothea Klein u. Sabine M. Schneider (Hg.): Lektüren für das 21. Jahrhundert. Schlüsseltexte der deutschen Literatur von 1200 bis 1990. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2000, 202–225.

Borchmeyer, Dieter: Stifters ‚Nachsommer‘ – eine restaurative Utopie? In: Poetica 12 (1980), 59–82.

Hohendahl, Peter Uwe: Die gebildete Gemeinschaft: Stifters ‚Nachsommer‘ als Utopie der ästhetischen Erziehung. In: Wilhelm Voßkamp (Hg.): Utopieforschung. Interdisziplinäre Studien zur neuzeitlichen Utopie, Bd. 3. Stuttgart: Metzler 1982, 333–356.

Schuller, Marianne: Das Gewitter findet nicht statt oder die Abdankung der Kunst. Zu Adalbert Stifters Roman ‚Der Nachsommer‘. In: Poetica 10 (1978), 25–52. 

Zumbusch, Cornelia: Der Nachsommer. In: Christian Begemann u. Davide Giuriato (Hg.): Stifter-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung. Stuttgart: Metzler 2017, 98–108.

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Please buy the following book:

Adalbert Stifter: Der Nachsommer. Eine Erzählung, ed. by B. Jeßing. Stuttgart: Reclam different years.