Origins of European Literatures
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher:
ELIANA GIOVANNA CREAZZO
Expected Learning Outcomes
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.
The course aims in particular to provide the student with an expansion
of the knowledge of the origins of European literatures, with reference to the
main literary forms, the canon of texts, cultural dynamics, according to comparative
methodologies and connections between the medieval and modern horizon.
Course Structure
Lectures and exercises
Required Prerequisites
Knowledge of Italian and European literatures, possession of the methodological tools for the analysis of literary texts and knowledge of the most recent literary critical-methodological approaches.
Attendance of Lessons
Optional but recommended attendance
Detailed Course Content
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1. Reception, comparativism and literary canon
2. Eros and medieval female
mysticism
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Textbook Information
H. R. Jauss, Storia della letteratura come provocazione, a cura di P. Cresto-Dina,
Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2016, pp. 275.
A. Pioletti, Filologia e critica.
Contro gli stereotipi, Rubbettino 2021, pp. 220.
L. Muraro, L’esperienza delle
mistiche, in Lo spazio letterario
del medioevo. 2. Il Medioevo volgare, vol. IV, L’attualizzazione del
testo, Salerno ed., pp. 627-49 (available in Studium).
Angela da Foligno, Il libro dell’esperienza,
a cura di G. Pozzi, Adelphi 2001, pp. 261.
Further bibliographical material will be provided during the lessons and
made available on the Studium platform.
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Written exam in progress: report on part 1 of the program
Final oral exam:
The assessment of the exam will take into account the mastery of the contents and skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical properties, as well as the argumentative ability demonstrated by the candidate
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
What is the legibility of a work?
What is the literary canon and how to rethink it?
What is meant by the European origins of literatures?
When to place the formation of the novel genre?
What is the mystical vision?
What is the contribution of medieval female mysticism to the vision of love?
How is the dimension of the body seen / represented in medieval female mystical texts?
VERSIONE IN ITALIANO
