CODE 101948 ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022 CREDITS 9 cfu anno 2 LINGUE E CULTURE MODERNE 8740 (L-11) - GENOVA 9 cfu anno 2 LETTERE 8457 (L-10) - GENOVA 9 cfu anno 3 LETTERE 8457 (L-10) - GENOVA 6 cfu anno LINGUE E CULTURE MODERNE 8740 (L-11) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR L-FIL-LET/14 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 1° Semester TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES 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. TEACHING METHODS 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. SYLLABUS/CONTENT Opera, Melodrama and Novel in a comparative perspective. 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 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 3. 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] 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 We'll inform about the lessons as soon as possible. Class schedule COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 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 a literary text in its specific morphology and historical context. 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.
