CODE 101948 ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020 CREDITS 9 cfu anno 3 LETTERE 8457 (L-10) - GENOVA 9 cfu anno 1 LETTERATURE MODERNE E SPETTACOLO 9918 (LM-14) - GENOVA 9 cfu anno 2 LINGUE E CULTURE MODERNE 8740 (L-11) - GENOVA 6 cfu anno LINGUE E CULTURE MODERNE 8740 (L-11) - GENOVA 9 cfu anno 2 LETTERE 8457 (L-10) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR L-FIL-LET/14 TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 2° Semester TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB 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 Metamorphosis, Overlaps and Hybridizations of Literary Genres (from the classical theory to postmodernist fiction) RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY 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 TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD NICOLA FERRARI Ricevimento: Mobile: 3454558112 You can phone to reach further informations on Programs, Methods and Exams. Exam Board NICOLA FERRARI (President) CHIARA FORTE LESSONS Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy
