课程信息
课程名称：浪漫主义神话故事 /Romantic myths and tales
课程代码：GEHA1211
课程学分：2
课程简介
This course thematizes a key juncture in German intellectual history: the folk, myth, and fairytale. In the first term our discussion will be limited to the Goethezeit. In the first half of this term, we reconstruct the Grimm brothers’ effort to catalogue folk stories, the basis of their pedagogical motive, and its role in the formation of national identity. Special attention will be paid to the divergence between early and late editions of their magnum opus. We familiarize ourselves with philological, structuralist, psychoanalytic, and Marxian interpretations. In the second half of term, w proceed to the “Kunstmärchen” i.e. the literary adoption of the fairytale. This invites questions about the oral form of the folk & fairy tale and its relationship to the written form, which is an effective prism through which to introduce the literary Romantics. At the end of the Enlightenment, authors like Ludwig Tieck and E. T. A. Hoffmann interpreted folk, myth, and fairytale as an antidote for rationality that had dissolved belief and collective identity.
Steven Lydon，任上海科技大学人文科学研究院助理教授（2023年7月入职），美国哈佛大学德语语言文学专业博士。Lydon博士的研究聚焦自然与文化的对话关系，特别是近十几年来西方人文学界比较热门的 “音响文化”。研究领域包括浪漫主义与理想主义、德国电影、诗歌与诗学、音乐和声音研究、现代主义、科学史。