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Franziska Merklin

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Franziska Merklin

Senior Lecturer of Italian and Research Affiliate in Romance Languages and Literatures

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Romance Languages
211 Lawrence Hall
  • M 2:00pm - 4:00pm (211 Lawrence Hall)
  • F 9:00am - 10:00am (211 Lawrence Hall)

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Dr. Merklins research focuses on Iacopo Sannazaro, Stefan George, classical reception and literary translation.

Literature and politics, American-Italian intellectual ties.

  • Italian 121 and 122: Elementary Italian I &II
  • Italian 201: Intermediate Italian I 
  • Italian 202: Intermediate Italian II: Language and Literature
  • Italian 353: Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
  • Italian 354: Modern Italian Culture
  • Italian 361: Advanced Italian Grammar, Composition and Conversation
  • FSEM 169
  • Core C138 Black Italy
Poster reading Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet, A Conversation with the Translator Ann Goldstein. April 26, 2017, Persson Hall Auditorium, 4 p.m. 51勛圖厙's Department of Romance Langauges and Literatures, Co-sponsored by the English Department, the Linguistics Program, and the Division of Arts and Humanities

Independent Studies (Italian 391):

  • La Questione Meridionale The Question of the South
  • Le Fosse Ardeatine The Ardeatine Caves
  • LItalia e la crisi greca Italy and the Greek Crisis
  • Migrazione ora e allora Migration Past and Present
  • Fare i conti col passato Francesca Melandris Sangue giusto

Books:

Monograph by Franziska Merklin
Edition and translation by Franziska Merklin
  • Stefan Georges moderne Klassik. Die Bl瓣tter f羹r die Kunst und die Erneuerung des Dramas, W羹rzburg, Ergon, 2014.
    [A study of the poetics and plays in Stefan Georges journalBl瓣tter f羹r die Kunst(Leaves for Art, 1892-1919).]
    Reviewed by: U. Oelmann inGeorge-Jahrbuch11 (2016): 362-363.
  • Iacopo Sannazaro Arcadia - Arkadien. Herausgegeben, 羹bersetzt, eingeleitet und kommentiert von Franziska Merklin. Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2020.
    [A study, annotation and translation into German of Iacopo Sannazaros Arcadia(c. 1490).]

 

Book Chapters:

  • Micheles via crucis: Niccol簷 Ammanitis und Gabriele Salvatores' Io non ho paura, in Geistesheld und Heldengeist. Studien zum Verh瓣ltnis von Intellekt und Heroismus, ed. B. Belich et al, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2020, pp. 359-372.
  • Peterchens Mondfahrt als Orlando furioso f羹r Kinder, in Ariost in Deutschland. Seine Wirkung in Literatur, Kunst und Musik, ed. A. Aurnhammer and Mario Zanucchi, Berlin / New York, De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 377-389.
  • [A study of the fairy tale Little Peters Journey to the Moon(1915) by the German author Gerdt von Bassewitz and its reception of Ariostos Orlando furioso(1516).]
  • Karl Wolfskehl und die Schwabinger Schattenspiele, in fort von hain und haus. Die Familie Wolfskehl und Darmstadt, ed. Volkhard Huth, Julius H. Schoeps and Christian Hoffarth, Frankfurt am Main, Vittorio Klostermann, 2019, pp. 67-89.
  • [An interpretation of three shadow plays by Karl Wolfskehl in the context of avant-garde theater.]
  • Fratze, in Krise und Gemeinschaft. Stefan Georges Der Stern des Bundes, ed. C. Fricker, Frankfurt am Main, Vittorio Klostermann, 2017, pp. 231-235.
  • An analysis of the uses Stefan George makes of the word Fratze (frown, grimace) in his anthologyDer Stern des Bundes (The Star of the Covenant, 1914).]
  • 蹙釵堯鳥梗娶堝 Krise und Gemeinschaft. Stefan GeorgesDer Stern des Bundes, ed. C. Fricker, Frankfurt am Main, Vittorio Klostermann, 2017, pp.225-230.
  • [An interpretation of the occurrences and meanings of 蹙釵堯鳥梗娶堝 (pain) in Stefan Georges anthology Der Stern des Bundes(The Star of the Covenant, 1914).]
  • Wer schauen durfte bis hinab zum grund, in Krise und Gemeinschaft. Stefan GeorgesDer Stern des Bundes, ed. C. Fricker, Frankfurt am Main, Vittorio Klostermann, 2017, pp. 451-461.
  • [An analysis of the poem Wer schauen durfte bis hinab zum grund in Stefan Georges anthologyDer Stern des Bundes(The Star of the Covenant, 1914).]
  • Hymnen, inStefan George-Werkkommentar, ed. J. Egyptien, Berlin / New York, De Gruyter, 2017, pp. 23-42.
  • [A commentary of Stefan Georges first anthology,Hymnnen(Hymns, 1980), with an analysis of two of its poems.]<
  • ぼ勳梗 traurigen T瓣nze, in Stefan George-Werkkommentar, ed. J. Egyptien, Berlin / New York, De Gruyter, 2017, pp. 240-253.
  • [A commentary of Stefan Georges ぼ勳梗 traurigen T瓣nze, part of his anthology Jahr der Seele(The Year of the Soul, 1897), with an analysis of two of its poems.]<
  • ぼ勳梗 Bl瓣tter f羹r die Kunstin der deutschen Literaturkritik, inStefan George und sein Kreis. Ein Handbuch zu Leben und Werk Stefan Georges, zu den Mitgliedern seines Kreises und zu dessen Wirkung, ed. A. Aurnhammer, W. Braungart and U. Oelmann, Berlin / New York, De Gruyter, 2012, vol. 2, pp. 962-976.<
  • [An analysis of contemporary literary criticism of Georges journal Bl瓣tter f羹r die Kunst (Leaves for Art, 1892-1919).]
  • Heinrich Friedemann, in Stefan George und sein Kreis. Ein Handbuch zu Leben und Werk Stefan Georges, zu den Mitgliedern seines Kreises und zu dessen Wirkung, ed. A. Aurnhammer, W. Braungart and U. Oelmann, Berlin / New York, De Gruyter, 2012, vol. 3, pp. 1363-1365.
  • A bio-bibliographical entry on the George disciple and Plato scholar Heinrich Friedemann.]
  • Petrarcas lateinische Griseldis, in Petrarca und die r繹mische Literatur, ed. U. Auhagen, S. Faller and F. Hurka. T羹bingen, G羹nter Narr, 2005, pp. 263-272.
  • A study of Petrarchs Latin translation (~1373) of Boccaccios vernacular Griselda novella (~1353).