CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS

The course, featured by a strong interdisciplinary approach, aims to provide students with knowledge and methodological skills addressed to identify the interactions between contemporary Italian literature and visual languages and arts. The course is devoted to the following specific knowledge and skills:

- Indentification of intertextual, interdisciplinary and intermedial networks concerning the specific literary languages of contemporary culture (by reading exemplary works of Goliarda Sapienza).

- Textual analyses and identification of specific semantic, stylistic, rhetorical features, as well as distinction of genres and forms in the interplay between literature and visual languages.

- Contextualization of examples of interaction between literature and photography in the contemporary theoretical debate.

A. The transmedial adventure of Goliarda Sapienza (3 CFU)

The case study of Sapienza: from cinema to performative art.

 

B. Phototexts (3 CFU)

Forms and genres in the interplay between literature and photography.

A. The transmedial adventure of Goliarda Sapienza (3 CFU)

- M. Rizzarelli, Goliarda Sapienza. Gli spazi della libertà, il tempo della gioia, Carocci, 2018.

- G. Sapienza, L’arte della gioia, postfazione di D. Scarpa, Torino, Einaudi, 2008.

 

Students must choose one text from the follow list:

*G. Sapienza, Lettera aperta;

*Ead., Il filo di mezzogiorno;

*Ead., L’università di Rebibbia;

*Ead., Le certezze del dubbio;

Ead., Io, Jean Gabin, Torino, Einaudi, 2010;

Ead., Tre pièce e soggetti cinematografici, Milano, La Vita Felice, 2014.

 

*Students can choose among the available editions.

 

B. Phototexts (3 CFU)

Students must choose two texts from group 1) and one from 2):

 

1)

• G. Falco, S. Ragucci, Condominio oltremare, Roma, L’orma, 2014;
• H. Janeczek, La ragazza con la Leica, Milano, Guanda, 2017;
• M. Mari, Leggenda privata, Torino, Einaudi, 2017;
• A. Moresco, Zio Demostene. Vita di randagi, Milano, Effigie, 2005;
• W. Siti, Autopsia dell'ossessione, Milano, Mondadori, 2010;
• G. Vasta, R. Fazel, Absolutely Nothing, Quodlibet Humbolt, 2016.

 

2)

• R. Barthes, La camera chiara. Nota sulla fotografia, Torino, Einaudi, 1980;
• Ph. Dubois, L’atto fotografico, a cura di B. Valli, Urbino, QuattroVenti, 1996;
• G. Freund, Fotografia e società, Torino, Einaudi, 2007;
• S. Sontag, Sulla fotografia. Realtà e immagine nella nostra società, Torino, Einaudi, 2004.

Critical essays:

• S. Albertazzi, Letteratura e fotografia, Roma, Carocci, 2017 e M. Cometa, R. Coglitore (a cura di), Fototesti. Letteratura e cultura visuale, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2016, pp. 49-115.

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.