Comparative Literature A - L
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: Attilio SCUDERIExpected Learning Outcomes
The Course aims to transfer to new students – as more clearly as possible - the main Concepts of Literary Debate, through different and culturally basic samples of Literary Criticism and Literary Texts. The whole Course is a reading and writing Lab; the Students will work individually and in group. At the end of any Part of the Course the student who has attended the majority of classes (attendance is required), will be able to analyze complex literary texts, will practice textual analysis (schematic diagram, summary, and so on), and will write short original literary essays.
Course Structure
The whole Course is a reading and writing Lab; it is divided in three modules in order to help the freshmen. Students will work either individually and in group.
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
Textbook Information
Course Planning
Subjects | Text References | |
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1 | Cos’è la letteratura e a quali funzioni risponde nella nostra società? | Eco |
2 | Cos’è la letteratura comparata? | Steiner |
3 | Cos’è il canone dei classici e qual è la sua funzione? | Calvino |
4 | Il dibattito sulla traduzione e sulla lingua italiana | Calvino, Levi |
5 | La critica letteraria oggi - Introduzione alla letteratura | Manuale di Brioschi-Di Girolamo-Fusillo |
6 | La rivoluzione del romanzo e del comico per M. Bachtin | Bachtin |
7 | La biblioteca della metamorfosi: Omero, Ovidio, Dante e Kafka | Odissea, IV: il mito di Proteo; Metamorfosi di Ovidio: il mito di Ermafrodito; Dante, Inferno, XXIV, XXV; Balzac, Papà Goriot;Kafka, Metamorfosi |
8 | Letteratura e alterità: lo straniero | Odissea IX: il Ciclope; Melville, Benito Cereno; Ceserani |