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

1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

5) ability to carry out research autonomously.

In particular, this class aims to provide the conceptual knowledge and method that are necessary to study and understand French literature as a cultural heritage of the Western world, but also as a source of ideological, thematic and linguistic models that are used in Europe.
The specific purpose of this course is to acquire the ability to recognize the different experimental languages tested by some French writers in relation to variations of literary genre, public, purpose, and historical situation. 
The course is focused on implementing the ability of interpreting recurrent patterns and their changes in French and Italian literature and art. The class prioritizes the dimension of intertextuality and rewriting in figurative arts and literary texts.

The course is hold in a classroom, through an alternance of two main teaching modalities: frontal lessons and practice exercises, in order to train the student to the written test, that is preparatory to the oral examination.

Therefore, students who attend the course are requested to bring to each lesson the anthology, as can be find online, on Studium platform. Students can choose whether to employ a digital or paper version of the books, that in class will be subject matter of textual analysis. 

The Journey of literary Genres in the European intellectual Environment

First Module – From Italy to France. Poetry and novel. Collections of lyrics and metanarrative frames (about the reception of models provided by Petrarca and Boccaccio) 

Second Module – From France to Italy. Novel and poetry. The critical acclaim of the "isms" (about the reception of models provided by symbolist poetry and naturalist narrative)

Reference texts for the theory of literary genres (the pages will be provided on Studium at the beginning of the class):

·      A. Baldini, Introduzione a " Pierre Bourdieu e la sociologia della letteratura", pp. 9-25

·      P. Bourdieu, Il critico, o il punto di vista dell’autore, in «Allegoria», n. 55, gennaio-giugno 2007, pp. 26-31

• Paola Avella, Il campo dell'arte: regole e valori dell'istituzione letteraria, in «Enthymema», n. 4, 2011, pp. 246-258

·      F. Pappalardo, Teorie dei generi letterari, Bari, B.A. Graphis, 2009 (chapter 1, pp. 3-21; chapter 5, pp. 111-152)

·      Schaeffer, Jean-Marie, Che cos'è un genere letterario, Parma, Pratiche Editrice, 1992, 184p

·      Käte Hamburger, La logica della letteratura [1977], a cura di Eleonora Caramelli, Bologna, Pendragon, 2015 (selected pages)

·      Generi letterari: ibridismo e contaminazione, a cura di A. Sportelli, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2001 (selected pages)

First Module – From Italy to France. Poetry and novel. Collections of lyrics and metanarrative frames (about the reception of models provided by Petrarca and Boccaccio).

Reference texts for literary history and anthology (the pages will be provided on Studium at the beginning of the class, as well as the list of literary works and excerpts): 

·      Storia europea della letteratura francese, t.1. Dalle origini al Seicento, a cura di L. Sozzi, Torino, Einaudi, 2013

·      Antologia cronologica della letteratura francese, diretta e a cura di Ruggero Campagnoli, Milano, Edizioni Universitarie LED, 1996 [v. 2. Cinquecento, a cura di R. Campagnoli; v. 3. Seicento, a cura di G. Giorgi]

Second Module – From France to Italy. Novel and poetry. The critical acclaim of the "isms" (about the reception of models provided by symbolist poetry and naturalist narrative)

Reference texts for literary history and anthology (the pages will be provided on Studium at the beginning of the class, as well as the list of literary works and excerpts): 

·      Storia europea della letteratura francese, t.2. Dal Settecento all’età contemporanea, a cura di L. Sozzi, Torino, Einaudi, 2013

·      Antologia cronologica della letteratura francese, diretta e a cura di Ruggero Campagnoli, Milano, Ambrosiana, 1996 [v. 4. Settecento, a cura di A. Principato; v. 5. Ottocento, a cura di Liana Nissim; v. 6. Novecento, a cura di Liana Nissim]

More texts will be available on the Studium platform by 31 March 2022.

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).