German
Literature and Critical Thought – 6 cfu

 
“Forms
of Nature: Theory and Poetics”
 
Prof.
Camilla Miglio,
in
collaborazione con Dr. Matteo Iacovella, Dr. Mariaenrica Giannuzzi e Chiara
Maciocci
 
COURSE DESCRIPTION
“Forms of Nature: Theory and Poetics” aims
at reading contemporary German poetry and prose of mostly women writers in
tandem with materialist theories. The course articulates fundamental categories
in the field of the Environmental Humanities, such as landscape, deep time,
anthropocene, scale, entanglement, catastrophe, political ecology and
nature-writing, with a peculiar attention to the specific writerly and
conceptual practices of each text.
 
Testi principali:
 
Esther Kinsky, Rombo, Translated by
Caroline Schmidt, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022.
 
Ulrike Draesner, this porous fabric:
Selected Poems, Translated
by Iain Galbraith. Bilingual edition. Schearsman Books, 2022.
 
Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Civil Disobedience, Penguin 2022 (or any other free edition).
Serenella
Iovino, Ecocriticism and Italy. Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation,
Bloomsbury 2016 (excerpts)*
 
Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe
Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Duke
University Press 2007 (excerpts)*
 
**Excerpts will
be uploaded in a shared drive throughout the course. The syllabus includes
texts by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, W.G. Sebald, Tawada Yoko, Paul Celan,
Peter Waterhouse, Gillés Clement, Val Plumwood, Stacy Alaimo, Sara Ahmed, Anna
Tsing and scientific articles from the current debate in the Environmental
Humanities.