CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS

L-FIL-LET/11 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

MARIA RIZZARELLI


Course Structure

The course is divided into two modules (each one of 18 hours): through the first one, dedicated to the analysis of the interplay between literature and figurative arts, photography and cinema in Sciascia’s novels and essays, the students will acquaint themselves with the rich variety of the main paradigms of visual culture studies, whilst acquiring the theoretical, methodological and analytical tools, which will then be applied to the case studies proposed in the second module. The second part of the course presents some examples of adaptations of literary texts to the big and the small screens, in which the great variety of forms, codes, languages (from classical theater, to comics, to photography) overlaps with complicated “gender trouble”. Students will have to choose two examples and discuss their analysis in a seminarial form. Face to face time and laboratory dimension will alternate and the steady, active participation of the students in the lessons will be encouraged.



Detailed Course Content

Modulo A. Literature and Visual Arts in Leonardo Sciascia’s Work (3 CFU)

Modulo B. Adaptations, Intersemiotic Translations and Transmedia Routes from literature to cinema (3 CFU)



Textbook Information

Module A.

Texts:

- One from the follow list: L. Sciascia, Il contesto, Milano, Adelphi, 2006; Id. Todo modo, Milano, Adelphi, 2003; Id., Il cavaliere e la morte, Milano, Adelphi, 2007.

- L. Sciascia, A ciascuno il suo, Milano, Adelphi, 2000.

- L. Sciascia, Le maschere e i sogni. Scritti sul cinema, a cura di S. Gesù, pref. di G. Bufalino, intr. di A. Di Grado, Catania, Maimone, 1992.

Critical Essays:

- M. Rizzarelli, Sorpreso a pensare per immagini. Sciascia e le arti visive, Pisa, ETS, 2013.

- G. Traina, Leonardo Sciascia, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 1999.

Modulo B.

Texts (two from the follow list):

- Aristofane, Lisitrata, a cura di G. Paduano, testo greco a fronte, Milano, Rizzoli, 2010.

- M. Satrapi, Persepolis, Milano, Rizzoli-Lizard, 2018.

- P. Highsmith, Carol, trad. it. H. Brini, Milano, Bompiani, 201

- N. Alderman, Disobbedienza, trad. it. M. Baiocchi, Milano, Nottetempo, 2018.

Audiovisual texts (two from the follow list):

- Et maintenant, on va où? (E adesso dove andiamo?, 2011), di Nadine Labaki.

- Persepolis (2007), di Marjane Satrapi.

- Carol (2017), di Todd Haynes.

- Disobedience (2018) di Sebastián Lelio.

Critical Essays:

- L. Hutcheon, Teorie degli adattamenti. I percorsi delle storie fra letteratura, cinema, nuovi media, trad. it. di G.V. Distefano, Roma, Armando, 2011.

- M. Rizzarelli, Amore e guerra. Percorsi intermediali fra letteratura e cinema, Lentini (SR), Duetredue edizioni, 2019.

 

Where page numbers or chapters are not indicated, the text must be studied in full.




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