Learning objectives
The first part of the course is aimed at providing students with the basic tools for a solid understanding of literary institutions (literary history, critical method, basic concepts of metre and rhetoric).
The second, more in-depth section is aimed at illustrating how a scientific research project on a topic in Italian literature involving pre-selected writers and themes is organised.
Course unit content
The course (12 CREDITS) is divided into two module units:
I. (6 CREDITS),unit of a theorical and introductory nature with references to literary historiography, hermeneutics of literature, aesthetics of reception, intertextuality and hypertextuality; the unit will outline the most common and populary forms (short story, novel, autobiography, essay, etc.) with special emphasis on their communicative rethoric. Literary examples will span all of Italian Literature.
II.(6 CREDITS), Fantastic italian literature
Bibliography
General Bibliography:
G. Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana (Einaudi Scuola) or U. Dotti, Storia della letteratura italiana (Carocci 2007).
Bibliography unit I:
H.R. Jauss, Perché la storia della letteratura, Guida Editore; A. Cavalli, Fuga dalla critica, Pàtron Editore, 2007
Bibliography unit II:
A. Cavalli, Oltre la soglia, Unicopli, 2002; A. Cavalli, Viaggiare con la scrittura, Archetipo Libri, 2011; T. Todorov, La letteratura fantastica (Garzanti) e R. Ceserani, Il fantastico (Il Mulino)
I. U. Tarchetti, Racconti fantastici ; Amore nell'arte
A. Boito, racconto L’alfier nero
R. Zena, racconto Confessione postuma
L. Capuana, Un Vampiro e altri racconti dell'occulto, pillole BUR, 2011
L. Pirandello, racconto Soffio
A. Tabucchi, racconto I pomeriggi del sabato (dalla raccoltra Il gioco del rovescio)
