Course description
I: Italian Literature and tourism.
II. Travel literature in the modern and contemporary literature; representation of urban spaces and towns; travelling through Italy and abroad in famous writers’ works.
III. Landscape and literature. The culture of landscape (definition, regulations, policy).
IV Beppe Fenoglio’s landscape. Literary parks in Piemonte and Liguria.
1. Geography and literature. 2. Looking on the space, looking on landscape. Different ways to approach their representation. 3. Travel writing in the Modern Age. 4. Projects for the tourist development of literary heritage.
Frontal lectures, Aulaweb
Part I: Italian literature and tourism enhancement: a possible duo: prof. Morando
Part II: Exemplary cases of development of literary places. phase of study and planning of an itinerary or a literary site. prof. Morando
Part III: focus on the idea of landscape: a concept of crossroads of different disciplines (from urban architecture to jurisprudence, from economics to politics, from geography to anthropology, from philosophy to literature, etc.), central to the cultural and political debate today, as the legislation attentive to the problem confirms (European Landscape Convention, Florence 2000). Specific cases of Italian and European literature, through the reading of an anthology of texts of Italian literature and fundamental critical pages: prof. Fish
Part IV: the exemplary case of Beppe Fenoglio, whose texts find in the landscape and in his representation a foundational element of writing. Finally, the parks and literary itineraries dedicated to the writer both in Alba and in the Langhe (San Benedetto Belbo, Murazzano, Mango, etc.) will be examined with an overall reflection on the direct and bi-univocal relationship that unites landscape and literature. Prof. Pesce
Parte I e II. Anthology of texts on aulaweb and specific bibliografy on the individual projects.
Parte III: Anthology of textes on aulaweb.
Parte IV: B. Beppe Fenoglio, Tutti i racconti, a c. di Luca Bufano, Einaudi 2007.
Ricevimento: Wednesdays 11-12 a.m., Via Balbi 2, 5th floor. Fridays 10-12 a.m. Contact: simonamorando@yahoo.it; simona.morando@unige.it
Ricevimento: http://www.economia.unige.it/index.php/il-dipartimento/personale/docenti-ad-economia/642-veronica-pesce
SIMONA MORANDO (President)
VERONICA PESCE (President)
FABIO CAFFARENA
GRAZIANO MAMONE
Sem: II
ITALIAN LITERATURE AND LITERATURE OF LOCATIONS
Wittene and oral examination
Oral and written test. Students have to realize a tourist project starting from a literary text. Oral examination on the syllabus.
Attendance
A good predisposition for reading
