Comparative Literature M - Z
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: GIUSEPPE PALAZZOLOExpected Learning Outcomes
The Course aims to transfer to new students – as clearly as possible - the main Concepts of Literary Debate, through different and culturally basic samples of Literary Criticism and Literary Texts.
They will also be asked to apply this knowledge during class, through a hermeneutic approach that emphasizes comparison, reasoned exposition, interpretive awareness, and independent judgment.
According to the Dublin descriptors, written and oral communication skills will be stimulated through exercises, with the aim of gaining confidence in the transmission of knowledge and mastery of critical tools. The ability to learn complex and articulated content and skills will be emphasized, avoiding forms of argumentative reductionism and restitution strategies marked by simple notionism. At the end of the Course the student who has attended to the majority of classes (attendance is strongly recommended) will be able to analyse complex literary texts and to practice textual analysis, will practice textual analysis (schematic diagram, summary, and so on), and will write short original literary essays.
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Subjects | Text References | |
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1 | A) The Keywords of Literary Theory | |
2 | Communication and literature: elements of literary communication (author-text-reader-language) | Brioschi-Di Girolamo-Fusillo, pp. 13-17 e pp. 41-52; U. Eco, Su alcune funzioni della letteratura in Sulla letteratura, Bompiani, Milano, 2003, pp. 7-22. |
3 | How a literary text works: style, language, theme/motif/topos, macrotext/text | Brioschi-Di Girolamo-Fusillo, pp. 53-84 e pp. 185-195. |
4 | Ways of reading: paraphrasing, commenting, interpreting, translating, empathizing/catharsis; aesthetic judgment, historical judgment, ethical judgment | Brioschi-Di Girolamo-Fusillo, pp. 225-237 e pp. 269-274; I. Calvino, Tradurre è il vero modo di leggere un testo, (in Saggi, vol. II, Mondadori, Milano 1995, pp. 1825-31) |
5 | Narrative: elements of narratology; the author, the narrator, the character | Brioschi-Di Girolamo-Fusillo, pp. 139-184 |
6 | Poetry: elements of metrics and rhetoric | Brioschi-Di Girolamo-Fusillo, pp. pp. 85-138 |
7 | Literary genres: the persistence and transformation of forms; tradition and the avant-garde; problems of periodization | Brioschi-Di Girolamo-Fusillo, pp. 28-40; M. Bachtin, Epos e romanzo in Estetica e romanzo, Einaudi, Torino 1997, pp. 445-482 |
8 | Weltliteratur: what is a canon; what is comparative literature; literature and the world; literatures and worlds; worldviews; Orientalism; cultural studies | Brioschi-Di Girolamo-Fusillo, pp. 139-246; G. Steiner, Che cosa è la letteratura comparata? in Nessuna passione spenta. Saggi 1978- 1996, Garzanti, Milano 1996, pp. 86-103 |
9 | Literature, logic and argumentation: writing to explain; writing to tell; writing to persuade; writing literature | Brioschi-Di Girolamo-Fusillo, pp. 253-260 |
10 | Beyond literature: transmediality, interdisciplinarity, hybridity | Brioschi-Di Girolamo-Fusillo, pp. 197-224 |
11 | B) the long journey of Ulysses | |
12 | Odissea | Odissea, Boitani, Calvino |
13 | Dante | Dante, Boitani |
14 | Tennyson | Tennyson, Boitani |
15 | Pascoli, Gozzano, Saba | Pascoli, Gozzano, Saba; Boitani |
16 | Pavese, Levi | Pavese, Levi; Sichera, Palazzolo |
17 | M. Horkheimer – T. W. Adorno | M. Horkheimer – T. W. Adorno |
18 | C) Plots of the Apocalypse | |
19 | Apocalypse | Apocalypse, Kermode, Eco, De Martino |
20 | Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now Redux | Conrad; Cometa |
21 | The Waste Land | Eliot |
22 | Il nome della rosa | Eco |