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.
The Tragedy: Romantic theories and contemporary practises.
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]
Ricevimento: Mobile: + 39 345 455 8112 You can phone to reach further informations on Programs, Methods and Exams.
NICOLA FERRARI (President)
MARTINA MORABITO
The lessons start on February 15th 2022.
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.
