Course description
I. Landscape and literature. The culture of landscape (definition, regulations, policy).
II. Beppe Literary parks. Fenoglio’s landscape.
III. Italian Literature and tourism.
IV. Valorisation of literary places: examples
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.
Main aims:
1) understanding how literature has represented urban space and landscape
2) recognizing literary sources of the territory and the existing projects aimed at tourist enhancement
No prerequisite, only motivation towards reading literature.
Frontal lectures, Aulaweb
Part I: 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. Pesce
Part II: Litarary parks: 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
Part III: Italian literature and tourism enhancement: a possible duo: prof. Morando
Part IV: Exemplary cases of development of literary places. phase of study and planning of an itinerary or a literary site. prof. Morando
Parte I. Anthology of texts on aulaweb and specific bibliografy on the individual projects.
Parte II: Anthology of texts on aulaweb and Beppe Fenoglio, Tutti i racconti, a c. di Luca Bufano, Einaudi 2007.
Parte III-IV: Anthology of texts on aulaweb. Other bibliography indicated in class.
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)
Sem: I 17th september
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
