ROMANCE PHILOLOGY A - L

1) Knowledge and understanding: to obtain, through a comparative methodological approach, knowledge of the process of formation of Romance languages and Romance literatures, as well as their transmission up to the present day.

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: acquire the ability to read a medieval text in Italian and to understand its contents, knowing how to analyze it from a linguistic and literary point of view

3) Judgment independence: acquire sufficient judgment autonomy based on objective methodological parameters, making use of the tools acquired.

4) Communication skills: acquire the ability to communicate through an appropriate vocabulary.

Lectures.

The course is divided into three sections and a small in-depth analysis.

[A] Linguistic section (2 ECTS)

Romance linguistic space; Latin and the genesis of the Romance languages; the oldest Romance texts; Romance linguistic history from the Middle Ages to the modern age; elements of historical grammar: phonology, morphology and syntax and lexicon.

[B] Philological section (2 ECTS)

Philology and truth; the manuscript as a book; the manuscript as a witness; tradition as a process; the text as a hypothesis.

[C] Literary section with in-depth analysis (5 ECTS)

[A] + [B] + [C]

L. Leonardi, L. Minervini, E. Burgio, Filologia romanza. Critica del testo, linguistica, analisi letteraria, Le Monnier, 2022, pp. 561.

Approfondimento:

1)    Mondi « altri » e letterature romanze e orientali, a cura di A. Pioletti, Rubbettino, 2023, pp. 139.

2)    Chrétien de Troyes,  Il cavaliere del Leone, a cura di Francesca Gambino, con un’introduzione di Lucilla Spetia, Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria 2011.

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