Literatur verstehen und inszenieren: Foreign language literature through drama, a research project

Based on the experience that today's students find it more difficult than students of previous decades to relate to literature and appreciate its high cultural value, this paper argues that too little is known about the actual teaching and learning processes which take place in literature courses and that, in order to ensure the survival of literary studies in German curricula, future research needs to elucidate for students, the wider public and, most importantly, educational policy makers, why the study of literature should continue to have an important place in modern language curricula. Contending that students' willingness to engage with literature will, in the future, depend to a great extent on the use of imaginative methodology on the part of the teacher, we give a detailed account of an action research project carried out at University College Cork from October to December 2002 which set out to explore the potential of a drama in education approach to the teaching and learning of foreign language literature. We give concrete examples of how this approach works in practice, situate our approach within the subject debate surrounding Drama and the Language Arts and evaluate in detail the learning processes which are typical of performance-based literature learning. Based on converging evidence from different data sources and overall very positive feedback from students, we conclude by recommending that modern language departments introduce courses which offer a hands-on experience of literature that is different from that encountered in lectures and teacher-directed seminars.

‘Proficiscere, anima Christiana’: Gerontius and German mysticism

The popularity in Britain of Elgar's _The Dream of Gerontius_ was triggered by the successful reception of the work in Germany in December 1901 and May 1902. By examining some of the writings on Elgar by German critics in this period, I explain that what may have particularly have appealed to German audiences was the composer's engagement with mysticism, something that as well as being a distinct strand of German theology since medieval times had acquired a new popularity among German artists in a number of fields as part of a reaction to the materialism of Wilhelmine Germany. Through a reading of the work that takes into account both its Catholic theology and ideas of mysticism more generally, I propose that the two Parts of the work should be conceived as taking place simultaneously, rather than successively, and that the work is thus best understood as belonging to the genre of epic rather than drama. ©2013 The Royal Musical Association

Pelléas and Melisande; lyric drama in five acts.

Words in French and English.

Die idee in drama : bei Goethe, Schiller, Grillparzer, Kleist /

Mode of access: Internet.

Das Deutsche drama; vierteljahrsschrift,

Vol. 1-3 have subtitle: Zeitschrift für freunde dramatischer kunst.

Drama und reichsgedanke ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Salome. [music] : Musik-Drama in einem Aufzuge /

For voice and piano; German and English words.

Salome : Musik-Drama in einem Aufzuge /

German words.

Jürg Jenatsch in Geschichte Roman und Drama.

Originally presented as author's thesis (M.A.); Washington University.

Das drama der gegenwart.

Mode of access: Internet.

Modernes Drama und Weltanschauung.

Mode of access: Internet.

Das deutsche drama des neunzehnten jahrhunderts in seinen hauptvertretern,

Mode of access: Internet.

Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold) a music drama in four scenes, prelude to the trilogy "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (The Nibelung's ring).

German and English on opposite pages.

Speculum vitae humanae : ein Drama /

With reproduction of original t.p.

German literature pamphlets

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets.