The course aims to provide a critical introduction to some of the most important paradigms of Literary theory in order to mature a deeper methodologic knowledge in students, experiencing significant and different forms of reading literary texts.
The course consists in a) lectures on historical and critical presentation of literary theory texts and their analytical, historiographical, formalist, stylistic and cultural-oriented categories; b) close-reading of texts belonging to different European literatures and related to the methodoloical perspectives presented in the course.
Reader-oriented Literary theories.
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
Ferraro, Teorie della narrazione, Carocci 2015
Giovannetti, Il racconto, Carocci 2012
2. Theoretical and Critical Texts
Erwin Panofski La Prospettiva come forma simbolica, Abscondita, 2013
John Shearman Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance, Princeton, 2019
Daniele Arasse, L’Annonciation italienne, Hazan 2010 [ed. it. Casa Usher, 2009]
Victor Stoichita, L’Effet Sherlock Holmes, 2015 [ed. it. Saggiatore, 2017]
Pietro Montani, Tecnologie della sensibilità, Cortina 2014
Wolfgang Iser, The Act of Reading, Hopkins, 1980
Wolfgang Iser, The implied Reader, Hopkins, 1978
Hans Robert Jauss, Estetica della ricezione, Guida 1988
Hans Robert Jauss, Storia della Letteratura come provocazione, Bollati Boringhieri 2016
Umberto Eco, Opera aperta, Bompiani, 2013
Marion Coste, Votre Faust, la création en partage. Etude de la mise en scène d'Aliénor Dauchez. Votre Faust d'Henri Pousseur et Michel Butor, PUFC, 2019
3. Fictional Texts:
Laurence Sterne, Life and opinion of Tristram Sterne, gentleman [ed. it. Mondadori, 2018]
Denis Diderot, Jacques et son maître [ed. it. Rizzoli, 2013]
E.T.A Hoffmann, Die Katze Murr [ed. it. L’Orma, 2016]
Julio Cortázar, Rayuela [ed. it. Einaudi, 2015]
Julio Cortázar, 62 Modelo para amar [ed. it. Componibile 62 Sur, 2015]
BS Johnson, The Unfortunates [ed. it. In balia di una forza avversa, Rizzoli, 2011]
Ricevimento: Mobile: + 39 345 455 8112 You can phone to reach further informations on Programs, Methods and Exams.
NICOLA FERRARI (President)
CHIARA FORTE
LITERARY THEORY
The exam consists in elaborating a critical reading of a literary text in a theoretical perspective and in discussing it orally.
During the exam will be evaluate the student awareness in critically analysing and discussing the forms of relation beween literary texts and a specific theoretical approach.
Non attending students should contact the teacher (+39 345 455 8112) in order to define a personal program related to her/his interests and curriculum.
