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Università degli Studi di Parma Università degli Studi di Parma
Second cycle degree course in
Journalism, editorial culture, environmental and multimedia communication
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries

LITERARY ESSAYS
cod. 1001186

Academic year 2022/23
1° 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: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN
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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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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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Contacts

Toll-free number

800 904 084

Student registry office

E. segreteria.corsiumanistici@unipr.it 

Quality assurance office

Education manger:
Dott.ssa Valentina Galeotti
T. +39 0521 034133
Office E. dusic.giornalismo@unipr 
Manager E. valentina.galeotti@unipr

President of the degree course

Prof. Marco Deriu
E. marco.deriu@unipr.it

Faculty advisor

Prof. Matteo Truffelli
E. matteo.truffelli@unipr.it 

Career guidance delegate

Prof.ssa Laura Gherardi
E. laura.gherardi@unipr.it

Tutor Professors

Prof. Matteo Truffelli
E. matteo.truffelli@unipr.it 

Prof. Marco Deriu
E. marco.deriu@unipr.it 

Erasmus delegates

Prof. Paola Volpini
E. paola.volpini@unipr.it 
 

Quality assurance manager

Prof. Matteo Truffelli
E. matteo.truffelli@unipr.it

Internships

Prof.ssa Sabrina Tosi Cambini
E. sabrina.tosicambini@unipr.it

Tutor students

Alberto NEGRI 

E. viola.tamani@studenti.unipr.it