Learning objectives
Shaping the capacity to read the dynamics and interplay of genres, while educating to read and evaluate the questions raised by themes, forms, and other textual issues.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of literary problems, literary modernity and Italian literary history
Course unit content
Title of the course: Planning Humanity(/ies). Education novels (and a playbook, too).
After an introductive section, aimed at providing the basic tools for a comparative study of modern literature (themes, genres, characters, poetics), will deal with the profile of a european cultural history. Thereby, novels entail the most important steps of a character's education. Different forms, pedagogical novels, bildungsromane between the XIXth and the first part of the XXTh Century, alternate and bring conflicts to the fore, in a literary tradition which shows the typical gestures of transmitting an education, yielding multiple, at times surprising, thematic effects.
Full programme
Title of the course: Planning Humanity(/ies). Education novels (and a playbook, too).
After an introductive section, aimed at providing the basic tools for a comparative study of modern literature (themes, genres, characters, poetics), will deal with the profile of a european cultural history. Thereby, novels entail the most important steps of a character's education. Different forms, pedagogical novels, bildungsromane between the XIXth and the first part of the XXTh Century, alternate and bring conflicts to the fore, in a literary tradition which shows the typical gestures of transmitting an education, yielding multiple, at times surprising, thematic effects.
Bibliography
Parte istituzionale:
1a. Pappalardo, Teorie dei generi letterari, B.A. Graphis, Bari 2009 (per gli studenti di Teoria e storia dei generi letterari – Giornalismo e cultura editoriale)
1b. Benvenuti, Ceserani, La letteratura dell’età globale, Il Mulino, Bologna 2012 (per gli studenti di Letterature comparate – Lettere classiche e moderne + Lingue, culture e comunicazione)
Sezione monografica:
2. Rousseau, Emilio, ed. cons. Oscar Mondadori (si richiede comunque, come per l’interezza dei testi in esame, la lettura di un’edizione integrale dell’opera)
3. Dickens, Tempi difficili, ed. cons. Garzanti
4. De Amicis, Cuore, ed. cons. Feltrinelli
5. Musil, I turbamenti del giovane Törless, ed. cons. Einaudi
6. Bennett, Gli studenti di storia, Adelphi
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons; some extracts dvds will be shown to the class
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam
Other information
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