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B004872 - COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES
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Course Content
Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
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Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2017-18
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-FIL-LET/14 - LITERARY CRITICISM AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
72
Teaching Term
01/03/2018 ⇒ 06/06/2018
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B005541 - LETTERATURE COMPARATE
Second Cycle Degree in MODERN PHILOLOGY
Curriculum LETTERARIO
B005541 - LETTERATURE COMPARATE
Second Cycle Degree in MODERN PHILOLOGY
Curriculum LETTERARIO
Teaching Language
italian
Course Content
Course Content -
The course offers a historical and methodological framework of the discipline and a comparative analysis of some works of writers with other fields of knowledge, i.e., literature and figurative art, literature and the cognitive sciences.
The course offers a historical and methodological framework of the discipline and a comparative analysis of some works of writers with other fields of knowledge, i.e., literature and figurative art, literature and the cognitive sciences.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Recommended texts -
Manual: Armando Gnisci, Introduzione alla letteratura comparata, Milan, Bruno Mondadori, 2004;
Theoretical texts; Marco Caracciolo, Letteratura e scienze cognitive (Carocci 2013; Kurt W. Forster- Katia Mazzucco, Introduzione a Aby Waburg e all’”Atlante della memoria”. With CD-ROM, Bruno Mondadori 2002
Literary works: choose 4 works from this list:
Opere letterarie:
scegliere almeno 4 testi dalla seguente lista:
E.Pellegrini-L. Zampese, Meneghello, Solo donne, Marsilio
C.Magris, Lei dunque capirà, Garzanti
T.Mann, Morte a Venezia, Einaudi
J. Cocteau, Orfeo, Einaudi
A. SAvinio, Introduzione alla vita di Mercurio, l'Obliquo
C.Wolf. Medea, e/o edizioni
P.P.Pasolini Teorema
I.LAndolfi, Matracci e storte, Grauss
G.Agamben, Ninfe, Bollati Boringhieri
R.Calasso, La follia viene dalle ninfe (Adelphi
G.Bompiani, La specie di sonno, Quodlibet
A.M.Ortese, Mistero doloroso, Adelphi. C. Edvarson, La principessa delle ombre, Giunti
F. Fellini, Olimpo, Società Editrice Milanese
Manual: Armando Gnisci, Introduzione alla letteratura comparata, Milan, Bruno Mondadori, 2004;
Theoretical texts; Marco Caracciolo, Letteratura e scienze cognitive (Carocci 2013; Kurt W. Forster- Katia Mazzucco, Introduzione a Aby Waburg e all’”Atlante della memoria”. With CD-ROM, Bruno Mondadori 2002
Literary works: choose 4 works from this list:
Opere letterarie:
scegliere almeno 4 testi dalla seguente lista:
E.Pellegrini-L. Zampese, Meneghello, Solo donne, Marsilio
C.Magris, Lei dunque capirà, Garzanti
T.Mann, Morte a Venezia, Einaudi
J. Cocteau, Orfeo, Einaudi
A. SAvinio, Introduzione alla vita di Mercurio, l'Obliquo
C.Wolf. Medea, e/o edizioni
P.P.Pasolini Teorema
I.LAndolfi, Matracci e storte, Grauss
G.Agamben, Ninfe, Bollati Boringhieri
R.Calasso, La follia viene dalle ninfe (Adelphi
G.Bompiani, La specie di sonno, Quodlibet
A.M.Ortese, Mistero doloroso, Adelphi. C. Edvarson, La principessa delle ombre, Giunti
F. Fellini, Olimpo, Società Editrice Milanese
Learning Objectives
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES:
Training
The course offers students a historical perspective of the development of the discipline and its methodologies.
- an initial approach to original editions (translations or original language texts with parallel translation) of authors of European and extra-European literary traditions, bibliographic sources and a knowledgeable use of text commentary tools. Initial library research practice. Perfecting expository speaking and writing skills.
- learning the basic concepts and the specific terminology of the discipline.
Behavior
- stimulating a knowledgeable use of the university structure, the CdS, orientation and management tools of the student’s career;
- stimulating intellectual participation and a correct and profitable teaching-learning relationship;
- stimulating a civil, shared use of the study resources of the CdS and the School.
Training
The course offers students a historical perspective of the development of the discipline and its methodologies.
- an initial approach to original editions (translations or original language texts with parallel translation) of authors of European and extra-European literary traditions, bibliographic sources and a knowledgeable use of text commentary tools. Initial library research practice. Perfecting expository speaking and writing skills.
- learning the basic concepts and the specific terminology of the discipline.
Behavior
- stimulating a knowledgeable use of the university structure, the CdS, orientation and management tools of the student’s career;
- stimulating intellectual participation and a correct and profitable teaching-learning relationship;
- stimulating a civil, shared use of the study resources of the CdS and the School.
Prerequisites
PREREQUISITIES:
High-level proficiency in at least one foreign language and a basic knowledge of the history of European literary, philosophical and artistic culture of the past two centuries.
High-level proficiency in at least one foreign language and a basic knowledge of the history of European literary, philosophical and artistic culture of the past two centuries.
Teaching Methods
TEACHING METHODS:
Classroom lessons and, the number of students permitting, seminar discussions. Students are encouraged to actively participate by asking for explanations, and to maintain a direct relationship with the teacher, even during weekly office hours.
Classroom lessons and, the number of students permitting, seminar discussions. Students are encouraged to actively participate by asking for explanations, and to maintain a direct relationship with the teacher, even during weekly office hours.
Further information
OTHER INFORMATION
Bear in mind that the School requires compulsory attendance for two-thirds of the lessons. Special exam sessions will be offered only to students enrolled part-time (who must contact the teacher for a specific program), none to non-attenders.
Bear in mind that the School requires compulsory attendance for two-thirds of the lessons. Special exam sessions will be offered only to students enrolled part-time (who must contact the teacher for a specific program), none to non-attenders.
Type of Assessment
Exams -
Testing (even for non-attending or exchange program students) takes place through a final oral exam aimed at verifying a general preparation on all course topics.
The oral test consists of an interview aimed at assessing the following educational objectives:
knowledge of the bibliography and materials discussed during lessons and made available through the course’s e-learning platform; knowledge of the distinctive features of comparative literature in relation to the specific course topic; ability to make proper use of the critical and methodological tools of the discipline; ability to read, analyze and comment on the course texts.
The student must demonstrate a sufficient level of preparation in the course’s training objectives to pass the final exam.
The final evaluation is the mark obtained on the oral exam.
Testing (even for non-attending or exchange program students) takes place through a final oral exam aimed at verifying a general preparation on all course topics.
The oral test consists of an interview aimed at assessing the following educational objectives:
knowledge of the bibliography and materials discussed during lessons and made available through the course’s e-learning platform; knowledge of the distinctive features of comparative literature in relation to the specific course topic; ability to make proper use of the critical and methodological tools of the discipline; ability to read, analyze and comment on the course texts.
The student must demonstrate a sufficient level of preparation in the course’s training objectives to pass the final exam.
The final evaluation is the mark obtained on the oral exam.
Course program
Course program -
Course title : Letteratura e arte figurativa; letteratura e scienze cognitive. Esempi di analisi comparatistica e interdisciplinare del testo in scrittori ponte fra più lingue e letterature
(Literature and figurative art; literature and the cognitive sciences. Examples of comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of the text in writers bridging multiple languages and literatures).
The aim of the course is to illustrate two different methodological applications to the literary text. It enters the workshop of Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas of Western culture and tries to answer the many questions raised by “cognitive” approaches to the literature and narrative that have been made in the last two decades, mostly by Anglo-American and German scholars. The two methods are applied to analyzing the texts of some great writers bridging multiple languages and literatures.
Course title : Letteratura e arte figurativa; letteratura e scienze cognitive. Esempi di analisi comparatistica e interdisciplinare del testo in scrittori ponte fra più lingue e letterature
(Literature and figurative art; literature and the cognitive sciences. Examples of comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of the text in writers bridging multiple languages and literatures).
The aim of the course is to illustrate two different methodological applications to the literary text. It enters the workshop of Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas of Western culture and tries to answer the many questions raised by “cognitive” approaches to the literature and narrative that have been made in the last two decades, mostly by Anglo-American and German scholars. The two methods are applied to analyzing the texts of some great writers bridging multiple languages and literatures.