NARRAZIONI DI VIAGGIO E GEOGRAFIE LETTERARIE

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

- knowledge and understanding in a post-secondary level field of study and knowing the fundamental themes in one's field of study;

- ability to apply knowledge and understanding in order to demonstrate a professional approach and possess adequate skills both to conceive and support arguments and to solve problems in one's field of study

-  learning skills necessary to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.

 

The main learning goal of the course is the acquisition of knowledge, both in historical-diachronic and stylistic-formal terms, of fundamental moments and works concerning the representation of the theme of the journey in the historical development of Italian literature. This objective is accompanied by the constant interpretation of literary activity as an interrelation between historical time and geographical space. At the end of the course, in addition to the knowledge of significant works and authors in this sense, the student will be able to recognize the essential characteristics that connote the theme and its presence in the historical development of Italian literature; will be able to recognize the incidence of the theme (narration and travel) in literary works even outside the historical-linguistic context of Italian literature, adequately evaluating the formal, stylistic and symbolic characteristics of the works analyzed. They will also be able to autonomously apply the skills learned even in contexts new to those studied, making use of the knowledge acquired to mediate, thanks to the communication skills perfected along the course of the activity and the research method learned, the cultural heritage according to a historically, culturally and intellectually grounded and at the same time creative and active perspective.

Module A (1 ECTS): Methodological and foundational issues on reflection around the concepts of space, travel and geography in fictional literature

Module B (4 ECTS): Figures of travelers and descriptions of real and ideal journeys in Italian literature between the 13th and 16th centuries.

Module C (4 ECTS): Urban spaces, rural spaces, wandering figures in Italian literature between the 19th and 20th centuries

Module A (1 ECTS): Methodological issues and pivotal fundamentals of the relationship between literature, space, travel:

·       Critical texts: M. Bachtin, Le forme del tempo e del cronotopo nel romanzo, in Id., Estetica e romanzo, Torino, Einaudi, 1979, pp. 233-258, 293-313, 372-405; M. Augé, Dai luoghi ai nonluoghi, in Id., Nonluoghi, Milano, Eleuthera, 1993, pp. 71-105;

 

Module B (4 ECTS): Figures of travelers and descriptions of real and ideal travels in Italian Literature between the 13th and 16th centuries: the refugee, the pilgrim, the merchant, the stateless man, the errant knight    

Authors and reference works: 

·       Marco Polo, Milione, reading of chapters. XXVII-XXXI: pp. 89-95; LXXI, pp. 126-129; CXXXVII-CXXXVIII pp. 241-246 (recommended edition by M. Ciccuto, Milano, Rizzoli, 2010); 

·   Dante, Commedia, Inferno XXVI (recommended edition by A. Chiavacci Leonardi, Mondadori, Milano, 2016); 

·    Petrarca, Familiares IV 1 (Lettera del Ventoso, in Petrarca, edited by L. Chines and M. Guerra, Milano, B. Mondadori, 2005, pp. 157-70); 

·      Boccaccio, Decameron, Proemio and Introduzione generale; a tale of the Decameron chosen by the student between: II 5 (Andreuccio da Perugia), II 7 (Alatiel), X 9 (Torello) (recommended edition by M. Veglia, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2020)

·     Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, canto XXXIV (Astolfo’s travels), recommended edition by E. Bigi e C. Zampese, Milano, Rizzoli, 2012

·    C. Tramontana, Guardare il passato dall’alto: Petrarca e l’ascesa del monte Ventoso, in Id., Vite immaginate, Lentini, 2021, pp. 65-86; 

·       C. Tramontana, Il contagio e la parola onesta. Interpretare Boccaccio, Napoli, Loffredo, 2021 pp.11-22 e 58-72

 

Module C (4 ECTS): Urban spaces, rural spaces, wandering figures between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries:

Authors and reference works:

·      Foscolo, a selection from Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (Firenze, 25 settembre; Milano, 4 dicembre);

·      Manzoni, Promessi Sposi, chapters XI, XII, XIII, XXXIV

·      Verga, I Malavoglia, chapters I and XV 

·    Full reading chosen by the student of one of the following works: P. Levi, Se questo è un uomo; P. Levi, La tregua; C. Pavese, La casa in collina; C. Levi, Cristo si è fermato a Eboli; I. Calvino, Il barone rampante; C. Magris, Danubio; R. Saviano, Gomorra.

·     C. Tramontana, Città di carta. Sondaggi sulla persistenza dell'archetipo di Babele nell'immaginario urbano, in «Le Forme e la Storia», n.s. XII, 2019, 1, pp. 103-122.

 

For a brief profile on the authors' narrative production and on the works of module C, see the study of the relative parts in G. Tellini, Storia del romanzo italiano, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2017; for the knowledge of the authors object of study, both in module B and in module C, it is advisable to study the relative parts in A. Casadei - M. Santagata, Manuale di letteratura italiana medievale e moderna, vol. I e Manuale di Letteratura italiana contemporanea, vol. II, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2014 and 2017 

 

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