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
and understanding 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.
Special objectives: Introduction
to sociological criticism as interpretation of the relationship text/context
(influences of the social context on authors and works, ideological
orientations involved in the text, forms of representation of the real) and as
a research into the circulation of themes, genres and styles.
A General problems (3
ECTS)
1. Gianni Turchetta, Critica,
letteratura e società, Carocci, pp. 7-291.
2. One work of your choice:
Walter Benjamin, L’opera
d’arte nell’epoca della riproducibilità tecnica, Einaudi;
Walter Benjamin, Angelus Novus, Einaudi;
Erich Auerbach, Mimesis, vol. II, Einaudi, pp. 220-343;
Roland Barthes, Miti d’oggi, Einaudi, pp. 1-271;
Umberto Eco, Apocalittici
e integrati, Bompiani, pp. 3-129, 219-260; Hans Robert Jauss, Storia della letteratura come provocazione,
Bollati Boringhieri, pp. 166-268;
Pierre Bourdieu, Le
regole dell’arte, Il Saggiatore, pp. 53-176;
Paolo Jedlowski, Il racconto come dimora,
Bollati Boringhieri, pp. 9-155.
B Focus
(3 ECTS)
The phototext in
contemporary Italian literature
1. Roland Barthes, La
camera chiara, Einaudi, Torino 2003, pp. 1-130; Giuseppe Carrara, Storie a vista. Retorica e
poetiche del fototesto, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2020, pp. 7-87, 369-372 and passim the parts dedicated to the texts listed in point
B2.
2. One work of your choice:
Elio
Vittorini e Luigi Crocenzi, Conversazione in
Sicilia, Bompiani, Milano 2021, pp. 1-204;
Paul
Strand e Cesare Zavattini, Un paese,
Einaudi, Torino 2021, pp. I-XII, 1-92;
Giorgio
Vasta e Ramak Fazel, Absolutely nothing,
Quodlibet, Macerata 2016, pp. 1-296;
Antonella
Anedda, La vita dei dettagli,
Donzelli, Roma 2009, pp. I-XIV, 1-178;
Michele
Mari, Leggenda privata, Einaudi,
Torino 2017, pp. 1-176;
Giorgio
Agamben, Autoritratto nello studio,
nottetempo, Milano 2017, pp. 1-174;
Helena
Janeczek, La ragazza con la Leica,
Guanda, Milano 2017, pp. 320;
Giorgio
Falco e Sabrina Ragucci, Flashover,
Einaudi, Torino 2020, pp. 1-200.
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 are available at the Library of DISUM.