The course aims to offer to the students a selection and an analysis of the essays published in the Western world during the 19th and the 20th century that were crucial in the construction of important critical methodologies.
The course aims to offer a rich and updated overview of the methodologies of literary criticism by retracing their historical evolution in an interdisciplinary perspective. Moving from the cornerstones of Western critical thought, we will focus in particular on the changes that have occurred in literary production following the advent of electromagnetic and digital technologies. The course aims also to stimulate the application of the main critical methodologies established since the end of the 18th century both to works of absolute importance in the literary tradition and to their respective transpositions and adaptations in other media.
In the course of the didactics the following topics will be dealt with:
- the definition of the concept of literature and the functions of criticism;
- the tools and orientations of modern and contemporary criticism;
- the problems posed by the convergence between media.
THE COURSE IS DELIVERED THROUGH ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS PANOPTO AND MOODLE.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| Quinto Orazio Flacco | Arte poetica: Lettera ai Pisoni | Fazi Editore | 2013 | ||
| Cesare Segre | Avviamento all’analisi del testo letterario | Einaudi | 1979 | ||
| Francesco Orlando | Due letture freudiane: Fedra e Il Misantropo, | Einaudi | 1997 | ||
| Georg Wilhelm Hegel | Estetica | Einaudi | 1997 | ||
| Michail M. Bachtin | Estetica e romanzo | Einaudi | 1997 | ||
| Gerard Genette | Figure III | Einaudi | 1976 | 9788806182571 | Parte “Discorso del racconto”: Premessa, Introduzione, I. Ordine |
| Andrea Chiurato | Geografie dell'esodo | Patron | 2020 | 9788855534833 | Introduzione e capitolo 1 “La strada” |
| Italo Calvino | Il castello dei destini incrociati | Mondadori | 2016 | ||
| Oscar Wilde | Il critico come artista | Feltrinelli | 2015 | ||
| Sigmund Freud | “Il perturbante”, in Id., Saggi sull’arte, la letteratura e il linguaggio, | Bollati Boringhieri | 1991 | ||
| Alberto Casadei | La critica letteraria contemporanea | Il Mulino | 2015 | ||
| Roland Barthes | L’analisi del racconto, | Einaudi | 1969 | ||
| Umberto Eco | Lector in fabula. La cooperazione interpretativa nei testi narrativi | Bompiani | 2016 | ||
| Nicola Gardini | Letteratura comparata. Metodi, periodi, generi | Mondadori | 2002 | ||
| Italo Calvino | Lezioni americane | Mondadori | 2016 | ||
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Lo strano caso del Dr. Jekyll e Mr. Hyde | Newton Compton | 2016 | ||
| Erich Auerbach | Mimesis, il realismo nella letteratura occidentale, vol. 2 | Einaudi | 2002 | ||
| Stefano Calabrese | Neuronarratologia. Il futuro dell’analisi del racconto, | Archetipo | 2009 | ||
| Edward Said | Orientalismo | Feltrinelli | 2013 | 9788807882067 | “Introduzione” e capitolo 1 “Il campo dell’orientalismo” |
| Francesco Orlando | Per una teoria freudiana della letteratura | Einaudi | 1997 | ||
| Linda Hutcheon | Teoria degli adattamenti: i percorsi delle storie fra letteratura, cinema, nuovi media | Armando | 2011 |
The exam will consist in an oral interview on the bibliography of the course.
The final grade, expressed in thirtieths, will be the result of the following elements:
- critical and creative texts analysis ability;
- ability to correctly use the terminology related to the field of study;
- lexical appropriateness and argumentative ability.
There are no program differences for attending and non-attending students.
