Description The repository engages learners to explore the complex interconnections that form literary texts, such as the interconnections between poetic writing strategy and text content, between text and culture and between text and the author’s biography. By means of a flexible interface, students can focus on specific interview segments and build collections, collaborating with each other and comparing their findings. Students can investigate the multiple interconnections that form the literary text and compare different approaches to writing, as well as aesthetic concepts, and different ways in which writers construct memories. They can support their findings with excerpts from the authors’ texts. The module enables students to enhance their linguistic abilities, deepen their understanding of the authors’ concepts and motivation for writing, and the overarching discourses of memory, history and identity. The digital media repository may be used either in conjunction with the authors’ literary work or as a standalone, providing students with a rich view of a variety of approaches to the literary construction of memory and commemoration. |
Gedenken und Gedächtnis Memory and commemoration in contemporary German literature A digital media repository for the study of German literature & culture
Sponsors: Pedagogy Which past is remembered? How do the authors construct and create the text? Which poetic strategies are used to remember the past? How are the present and the past juxtaposed? Is there a connection between the kind of memory that is brought to light and the poetic strategies or the authors’ biographical background? What is the structure of the narrative: is the event told chronologically, or is the narrative fragmented and interrupted by memory? Is personal memory embedded in a collective memory? How is this linked to the construction and destruction of the protagonist? |
Students' Work
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