CODE 66410 ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022 CREDITS 9 cfu anno 1 LETTERATURE MODERNE E SPETTACOLO 9918 (LM-14) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR L-FIL-LET/14 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 2° Semester TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES 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. TEACHING METHODS 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. SYLLABUS/CONTENT The Tragedy: Romantic theories and contemporary practises. RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. General handbooks Stefania Sini, Franca Sinopoli, Percorsi di teoria e comparatistica letteraria, Pearson 2021 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 Aristotele, Dell’arte poetica, Mondadori 1990 Friedrich Schlegel, Sullo studio della poesia greca. I greci e i romani. Saggi storici e critici sull'antichità classica, Mimesis 2008 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Ästhetik [ed. it. Estetica, Einaudi 1997] Friedrich Hölderlin, Anmerkungen zum Oedipus [ed. it. in Edipo il tiranno, Feltrinelli, 2008] Peter Szondy Versuch über das Tragische [ed. it. Saggio sul Tragico, Abscondita 2019] George Steiner, Death of Tragedy [ed. it. La morte della tragedia, Garzanti 2021] Terry Eagleton, Tragedy, Yale University Press 2020 Ann Carson, Float, Jonathan Cape 2016 Raymond Williams, Modern Tragedy, Vintage 2013 3. Fictional Texts: Juan Mayorga, Fedra, KRK 2010 [Euripide, Ippolito] Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies, Actes Sud 2009 [Sofocle, Edipo re] Angelica Liddell, Trilogía del Infinito, La Uña Rota, 2016 Kae Tempest, Paradise Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 [Sofocle, Filottete] Ann Carson, Norma Jean, Oberon 2019 [Euripide, Elena] Sarah Kane, Phedra’s love [Euripide, Ippolito] [ed. it. Tutto il Teatro, Einaudi 2000] Lars Norén, Blod, 1995 [Sofocle, Edipo re] Steven Berkoff, Greek in Plays 1, Faber & Faber, 2014 [Sofocle, Edipo re] Hélène Cixous La Ville parjure, ou le réveil des Erinyes, THEATRESOLEIL, 2010 [Sofocle, Coefore] Martin Crimp Cruel and Tender, in Plays 3, faber&faber 2015 [Sofocle Le donne di Tracia] Caryl Churchill, Thyetstes, A Mouthful of Birds in Plays 3, Nick Hern 1997 [Euripide, Baccanti] TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD NICOLA FERRARI Ricevimento: Mobile: + 39 345 455 8112 You can phone to reach further informations on Programs, Methods and Exams. Exam Board NICOLA FERRARI (President) MARTINA MORABITO LESSONS LESSONS START The lessons start on February 15th 2022. Class schedule LITERARY THEORY EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION The exam consists in elaborating a critical reading of a literary text in a theoretical perspective and in discussing it orally. ASSESSMENT METHODS 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. Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 17/01/2022 09:00 GENOVA Orale 31/01/2022 09:00 GENOVA Orale 09/05/2022 09:00 GENOVA Orale 23/05/2022 09:00 GENOVA Orale 06/06/2022 09:00 GENOVA Orale 04/07/2022 09:00 GENOVA Orale 16/09/2022 09:00 GENOVA Orale FURTHER INFORMATION 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.
