This is a post-graduate course taught in the first and second semesters. It offers an introduction to literary and cultural theory and consists of 10 2-hour seminars.
Students who attend this course regularly, and study the prescribed materials, will acquire
- a knowledge of key aspects of literary and cultural theory and different critical traditions;
- an advanced knowledge of some (meta)critical and methodological instruments of the literary and cultural analysis;
- an advanced ability to analyse some aspects of literary texts and specific cultural phenomena.
10 2-hour seminars in Italian. Attendance is mandatory.
Students will have the opportunity to investigate a range of theoretical issues: theories of the poetic text; debates around the relationship between the historical avant-gardes and mass society (Walter Benjamin, Ortega y Gasset, Joseph Frank, theorists of the grotesque); postmodern and postcolonial theory (Frederic Jameson, Terry Eagleton, Frantz Fanon and Edward Said); body and affect theories.
The reading list will be made available through aulaweb and/or in the Department library.
LAURA COLOMBINO (President)
LUISA VILLA (President)
MICHAELA BÜRGER-KOFTIS
MARIA RITA CIFARELLI
SARA DICKINSON
MICHELE PORCIELLO
MICAELA ROSSI
LAURA SALMON
Oral exam.
This is a Pass/Fail course. It is assessed by:
- monitoring the attendance, the knowledge and personal analysis of the texts in the reading list, and the participation in seminar discussion.
- a final oral examination on a selection of texts analysed during the course.
Students will pass the exam if they have attended continuously, engaged actively in seminar discussion and shown the ability to apply the theoretical instruments acquired during the course to literary texts and cultural phenomena.
Course enrolment via aulaweb is mandatory. Examination enrolment is through the Ateneo website.
This course is valid till July 2018.
