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CODE 66410
ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022
CREDITS
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

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.