ITALIAN LITERARY CRITICISM
cod. 1005174

Academic year 2022/23
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
- Carlo VAROTTI
Academic discipline
Letteratura italiana (L-FIL-LET/10)
Field
Attività formative affini o integrative
Type of training activity
Related/supplementary
30 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

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Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Title:
Literature in Court: narrating the processes

The course examines some texts (mainly Italian, but not only) focused on the narration of trials and judicial cases (whether real or fictional). Although some significant insights will be proposed on how the procedural dynamics have often and deeply crossed human thought and imagery (from the Greek tragedy, to the Renaissance of Guicciardini, Erasmo and Rabelais), the course will mainly deal with some texts of the full modernity: from eighteenth-century reflection on criminal procedure to contemporaneity.
The course moves against the background of both theoretical and historical acquisitions of the long-established area of ​​study in the Anglo-Saxon world (but which has now significantly entered the Italian academic world) known as 'Law and Literature'. In particular following:
a) a thematic approach: how literature has treated peculiar figures of the judicial world (the judges; the lawyer; the jury or the accused);
b) through an intersectional analysis: how literature has represented a place for discussion on important aspects of the legal debate (from reflection on procedural aspects; to the different procedural models; to the links between legality and social justice, etc

Full programme

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Bibliography

The complete bibliography of the course (literary texts and critical works) will be provided during the course, and posted on the Elly portal, together with a significant part of the non-fiction and literature in the program.
The following texts will not be made available on the Elly platform, which must be read in full by the students:
Balzac, Colonel Chabert
Luigi Capuana, Il marchese di Roccaverdina
Leonardo Sciascia, 1912 + 13
Sebastiano Vassalli, Il cigno

All students must also know the text by Clotilde Bertoni, Letteratura e giornalismo, Carocci, Rome, 2008.

Non-attending students must bring an additional critical text, which will be agreed with the teacher.

Teaching methods

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Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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