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.
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.
Metamorphosis, Overlaps and Hybridizations of Literary Genres (from the classical theory to postmodernist fiction)
1. General handbooks
Brugnolo, et alii Le scritture e il mondo. Teorie letterarie del Novecento, Carocci 2016
de Cristofaro, Letterature Comparate, Carocci 2014
Bertoni Letteratura. Teorie metodi strumenti, Carocci 2018
Boitani, et alii, Guida allo studio delle letterature comparate, Laterza 2013
2. Theoretical and Critical Texts
Aristotele, Poetica
Todorov, I formalisti russi, 2003
Frye, Anatomy of Criticism, 2000
Lukacs, L’anima e le forme, 2012
Lukacs, Teoria del Romanzo, 2015
Schönberg, Elementi di composizione musicale
3. Fictional Texts:
Luciano, Storia vera, Eliodoro, Etiopiche, Ovidio, Metamorphosis, Petronio, Satyricon, Rojas, Celestina, Rabelais, Le III Livre, Lope de Vega, Dorotea; el Arte nuevo, Cervantes, Novelas ejemplares, Guarini, Il pastor fido, Andreini, La centaura, Corneille, Illusion comique, Flaubert, Bouvard et Pécuchet, Victor Hugo, Cromwell, Schlegel, Fragments, Hofmmann, Prinzessin Brambilla, Joyce, Ulysses, Pasolini, Petrolio, Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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NICOLA FERRARI (President)
CHIARA FORTE
