CODE 65705 ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017 CREDITS 9 cfu anno 2 LINGUE E CULTURE MODERNE 8740 (L-11) - 6 cfu anno LINGUE E CULTURE MODERNE 8740 (L-11) - SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR L-FIL-LET/14 LANGUAGE Italiano TEACHING LOCATION SEMESTER 2° Semester AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES The course aims to provide a first introduction to the main comparative methodologies, in relation to a specific theme, leading students to experience significant forms of comparing texts from different languages and cultures. A particular attention will be devoted to the morphological dialectic between constants and variations in large/little scales of temporal and cultural relations. TEACHING METHODS The course consists in a) lectures on historical and critical presentation of some comparative methods and their analytical, historiographical, formalist, stylistic and cultural-oriented categories; b) close-reading of texts belonging to different European literatures and related to the course-theme, in order to apply the comparative methodologies. SYLLABUS/CONTENT Fabulous metamorphosis. Notes on the rewriting of Fairy-Tales genre. From a theoretical point of view, we’ll deal with the classical studies in morphology of the fairy tale and in the theories of rewriting. Forms and themes, models and constant able to define the traditional meaning of the fairy-tale genres will be confronted to their recovery, discounting, mutation, transgression from the Romantic to the modern and contemporary experimentations. RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folktale, Einaudi; Gerard Genette, Palimpseste, Seuil. Primary texts: Giovan Battista Basile, Lo cunto de li cunti, Garzanti; E.T.A Hoffmann Klein Zaches, genannt Zinnober [ed. it. l’Orma]; Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber, Carmen Gaite, Caperucita in Manhattan; Angelica Liddell, Y como no se ... pudrió Blancanieves; Ljudmila Petrsevskaja, There once lived a Woman, Michael Cunningham, A Wild Swan and Other Tales TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD NICOLA FERRARI Exam Board NICOLA FERRARI (President) MARCO SUCCIO LESSONS LESSONS START II semester Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION Oral test, consisting in a critic dialogue with the teacher (length: about three quarters of an hour) to verify the acquisition of methodological skills, by the analysis of texts presented by the candidates. ASSESSMENT METHODS The evaluation of the test will depend on the mastery of analytical and historiographical methods and on the personal capacity for their application. Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 06/06/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 06/06/2017 09:00 GENOVA Scritto 19/06/2017 15:00 GENOVA Orale 27/06/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 27/06/2017 09:00 GENOVA Scritto 10/07/2017 15:00 GENOVA Orale 11/07/2017 09:00 GENOVA Orale 11/07/2017 09:00 GENOVA Scritto 20/09/2017 09:00 GENOVA Scritto + Orale 20/09/2017 09:00 GENOVA Scritto + Orale 22/09/2017 08:00 GENOVA Orale 06/10/2017 08:00 GENOVA Orale 10/10/2017 09:00 GENOVA Scritto + Orale