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 fotography
Course Content - 1 semester - last names M-Z
The course is divided into two parts. The first offers an historical and methodological framework of the discipline. The second studies the relationship between literature and art, as one of the main field of comparative literature, through a series of case studies.
Theoretical texts;
Kurt W. Forster- Katia Mazzucco, Introduzione a Aby Waburg e all’”Atlante della memoria”. Con CD-ROM, Bruno Mondadori 2002
Silvia Albertazzi, Letteratura e fotografia, Carocci 2017
Literary works:
choose two works in the list:
G.Ieranò, Arianna. Storia di un mito, Carocci 2010; F.Condello, Elettra. Storia di un mito, ivi, 2010;
E.Pellegrini-L.ZAmpese, Meneghello. Solo donne , Marsilio 2016; C. Magris, Lei dunque capirà, Garzanti 2006.
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
FIRST PART:
- Letteratura comparata, a cura di Armando Gnisci, Milano, Mondadori, 2002.
SECOND PART:
Theoretical texts:
- W. J. T. Mitchell, Che cosa vogliono le immagini?, in Teorie dell’immagine. Il dibattito contemporaneo, a cura di A. Pinotti, A. Somaini, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2009, pp. 99-133 (course handouts).
- M. Cometa, La scrittura delle immagini. Letteratura e cultura visuale, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2012, first chapter, pp. 11-166.
- A. Pinotti, A. Somaini, Cultura visuale. Immagini, sguardi, media, dispositivi, Torino, Einaudi, 2016, first chapter, pp. 3-66.
Literary works:
- Texts on handouts (Omero, Iliade; Orazio, Ars Poetica; Leonardo da Vinci, Trattato della pittura; Lessing, Laocoonte; Baudelaire, Costantin Guys; Rimbaud, Poésies; Apollinaire, Calligrammes; Marinetti, Tavole parolibere; Govoni, Il palombaro; Tzara, ManifestO of Dadaism; Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism; Belloli, Visual poetry; Gruppo Noigrandes, Concret Poetry; Franz Mon, Concret Poetry; Eugen Gomringer, Concret Poetry; Gruppo 70, Visual poetry).
Moreover students should read TWO books from the following list:
- Honoré de Balzac, Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (1831), tr. It. Il capolavoro sconosciuto, Milano, Bur, 2002.
- Émile Zola, L'Œuvre (1886), tr. It. L’opera, Milano, Garzanti, 2006.
- Max Aub, Jusep Torres Compalans (1958), tr. It. Jusep Torres Compalans, Palermo, Sellerio, 1992.
- George Perec, Un cabinet d’amateur. Histoire d’un tableau (1979), tr. It. Storia di un quadro, Milano, Skira, 2011.
- Thomas Bernhard, Alte Meister (1985), tr. It. Antichi maestri, Milano, Adelphi, 1992.
- Antonia Susan Byatt, The Matisse Stories (1993), tr. It. Le storie di Matisse, Torino, Einaudi, 1996.
- Daniele Del Giudice, Nel museo di Reims, Torino, Einaudi, 2010.
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.
Learning Objectives - 1 semester - last names M-Z
Training
The course offers students a historical perspective on the development of the discipline and its methodologies.
- it provides comprehensive introduction of European and extra-European literary traditions’ authors, bibliographic sources and the knowledgeable use of text commentary tools. Moreover it offers basic library research practice, and improves public speaking and writing skills.
- it provides students with a thorough understanding of the basic concepts and the specific terminology of the discipline.
Behavior
The course will:
- promote the knowledgeable use of the university structure, the degree course, orientation and management tools;
- promote intellectual participation and a correct and profitable teaching-learning relationship;
- promote a civil, shared use of the course resources of the other study materials available in 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.
Prerequisites - 1 semester - last names M-Z
High-level proficiency in at least one foreign language in addiction to Italian. 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.
Teaching Methods - 1 semester - last names M-Z
Classroom lectures.
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.
Further information - 1 semester - last names M-Z
Please note that attendance is compulsory for at least for two-thirds of the lectures for full time students (i.e. 24 hours, or 12 lectures).
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.
Type of Assessment - 1 semester - last names M-Z
Testing takes place through a final oral exam aimed at verifying the general knowledge of all course topics. The oral exam consists of an interview aimed at assessing both historical, theoretic and methodological, and critical knowledge about the texts analyzed during the course. Students should demonstrate a sufficient level of preparation in the course’s training objectives to pass the final exam. The final evaluation corresponds to the mark obtained during the oral exam.
Course program
Course program -
Course title : Letteratura e fotografia; Letteratura e arte figurativa. Esempi di analisi comparatistica e interdisciplinare del testo in scrittori ponte fra più lingue e letterature
(Literature and Fotography; Literature and figurative art. Examples of comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of the text in writers bridging multiple languages and literatures).
The aim of the course is to illustrate some different methodological applications to the literary text. Literature and Fotography; Literature and figurative art. 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 methods is applied to analyzing the texts of two great writers bridging multiple languages and literatures: Luigi Meneghello and Claudio Magris.
Course program - 1 semester - last names M-Z
The course witch steers students toward the comparative literature studies is divided into two parts. The first offers an historical and methodological framework of the discipline, including elemental knowledge of thematic and thematologic criticism, genre and canon studies, translation studies and cultural studies. The second analyses the relationship between literature and art, as one of the main field of comparative literature, through a series of case studies.