ROMANCE PHILOLOGY M - Z

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: ELIANA GIOVANNA CREAZZO

Expected Learning Outcomes

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.

 

In the specific field of ecdotics the student will acquire skills relating to the structure and composition of the medieval manuscript and elements of the critical edition of texts.

The student, will acquire, in the linguistic field, a good level of knowledge of the historical formation of the Romance languages, their geographical distribution, the major differences and similarities between them, the linguistic structures that develop in diachrony in the transition from Latin to derived varieties; in the literary field, will acquire knowledge related to the formation of literary genres in the Middle Ages, according to a comparative perspective. In the field of ecdotics he will acquire skills relating to the structure and composition of the medieval manuscript and elements of the critical edition of texts.

Course Structure

The teaching will take place through lectures and practical exercises in class.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory

Detailed Course Content

1.  Elements of Textual Criticism

2.  From Latin to Romance Languages

3. The Medieval Romance Literature  

Textbook Information

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

- "Mondi altri" e letterature romanze e orientali, ed. A. Pioletti, Rubbettino 2023 (139 pp.).

 

Reading a book:

Chrétien de Troyes, Il cavaliere del leone, Edizioni dell’Orso 2011, pp. 580.

 

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.
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