Comparative Literature
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
Attilio SCUDERI
Expected Learning Outcomes
1) Knowledge
and Understanding
The Course aims to transfer the most
advanced Concepts of recent Literary
Debate in Criticism and Hermeneutics
2) Applying Knowledge and Understanding
These goals will be verified
through a lab of reading and interpretation on Ancient, Modern and Contemporary
Classics
3) Making Judgements
The written Literary Essay,
focused on one of the texts analyzed in the Class, will be the moment to show
the maturity of Judgement of the Students
4) Communication Skills
Both written and oral exams
push the students to achieve a high level of Communication of Complex Concepts
of Literary and Humanistic debate, and autonomy of aesthetic judgment and
interpretation
5) Learning skills
These goals will be verified
through a written essay and a final oral exam, in the final perspective of
Scientific Research, and Teaching of Languages and Literatures. Interdisciplinary
knowledge and skills will be transferred and texted
Course Structure
The whole Course is a reading and writing Lab; it is divided in two
modules. Students will work either individually and in group. Presence in Class
is recommended.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
The First Part introduces to the Theory of Literature as a Form of Human
and Cultural Communication. The Second Part focuses on the theme of Conspiracy,
between Literature and History, Novel and Cinema, in Italy and USA.
Textbook Information
Modulo A: Literature today: (2 ECTS)
Text: F. Bertoni, Letteratura, Carocci, Roma, 2018, pp.13-286.
Modulo B: Democracy in jeopardy: trhrough
novel and cinema (4 ECTS)
Novels: (choose at least three): P. Roth, Il complotto
contro l’America, Einaudi, Torino; D. DeLillo, Libra,
Einaudi, Torino; L. Sciascia, L’Affaire Moro,
ediz. a scelta Adelphi o Sellerio; P.P. Pasolini, Petrolio,
ediz. a scelta Einaudi, Mondadori o Garzanti.
Movies:
JFK, O. Stone, 1991; JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, O. Stone, 2021; Esterno notte, M. Bellocchio,
2022.
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.
