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.
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.
Opera, Melodrama and Novel in a comparative perspective.
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
2. Theoretical and Critical Texts
René Girard, Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque, Grasset 1961; Géométries du désir, L’Herne 2010
Peter Brooks, The Melodramatic Imagination, 1976
Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism, 1975
Fabio Vittorini, Melodramma. Un percorso intermediale tra teatro, romanzo, cinema e serie TV, Patron 2020
Mario Lavagetto, Quei più modesti romanzi, EdT 2003
Martha Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought. The intelligence of Emotions, 2001
Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp, in Against Interpretation, 1966 [ed. it. Contro l’interpretazione, Mondadori 1988]
3. Fictional Texts:
Alexandre Dumas, La dame aux camelias [ed. it. La Signora delle camelie, Mondadori 2017 ]
Victor Hugo, Le Roi s’amuse, Hernani [ed. it. Teatro, Garzanti 2009]
Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake, The Bride of Lammermoor [ed. it. La sposa di Lammermoor, Garzanti 2004]
Friedrich Schiller Die Räuber, Don Carlos [ed. it. Teatro, Garzanti 2008]
Antonio García Gutiérrez, El Trovador, Catédra 1994
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Honoré de Balzac, Les Illusions perdues
Castelo-Branco, Mistérios de Lisboa, Amor de perdiçao
Clarín, La Regenta
Emil Zola, Nana
Fodor Dostoevskij, L’Idiota, Rizzoli 2013
Henry James, What Maisie knew
James Joyce, Ulysses
Charlotte Salomon, Lieben? oder Theater?: [www https://charlotte.jck.nl/] [ed. It.: Vita? O Teatro?, Castelvecchi 2019]
Ricevimento: Mobile: + 39 345 455 8112 You can phone to reach further informations on Programs, Methods and Exams.
NICOLA FERRARI (President)
MARTINA MORABITO
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
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 a literary text in its specific morphology and historical context.
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.
