Origins of European Literatures
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: ELIANA GIOVANNA CREAZZOExpected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.
2) ability to apply knowledge andunderstanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;
3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;
4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.
5) ability to carry out research autonomously.
The course aims in particular to provide the student with an expansion of the knowledge of the origins of European literatures, with reference to the main literary forms, the canon of texts, cultural dynamics, according to comparative methodologies and connections between the medieval and modern horizon.Course Structure
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
1. Reception, comparativism and literary canon
2. The medieval novel and the processes of formation of the novel
Textbook Information
1. - A. Pioletti, Filologia e critica. Contro gli stereotipi, Rubbettino 2021, pp. 224.
2. - M.L. Meneghetti, Il romanzo nel Medioevo. Mondadori, Milano 2010 (pp. 157)
- C. Lagomarsini, Il Graal e i cavalieri della Tavola Rotonda. Guida ai romanzi francesi in prosa del Duecento, Mondadori, Milano 2020 (pp. 136)
-A. Pioletti, Gli studi sulla formazione del romanzo fra eurocentrismo e orientalismo, in Medioevo romanzo e orientale. Il viaggio dei testi. Atti del III Colloquio Internazionale (Venezia, 10-13 ottobre 1996), ed. A. Pioletti e F. Rizzo Nervo, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 1999, pp. 19-29. (disponibile sulla piattaforma studium)
- C. Segre, Quello che Bachtin non ha detto. Le origini medievali del romanzo, in Id., Teatro e romanzo, Einaudi, Torino 1984, pp. 61-84 (disponibile sulla piattaforma studium)
Reading the novels of Chrétien de Troyes :
Chrétien de Troyes, I romanzi cortesi, ed. G. Agrati e M.L. Magini, Mondadori, Milano 2017.
Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).
All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.