ARABIC LITERATURE

The course aims to complete the knowledge of the main figures and currents of Arabic literature (Module 1, 3 CFU).

It sets out to face a central question in the history of Arabic literature since its origins, the question of its relationship with alterity, providing students with a) improvements in their linguistic competence through reading, interpretation and analysis of texts in Arabic; b) critical and methodological instruments for analysis and in-depth study; c) awareness of the historical-literary problems also from the “comparatist philological” perspective (Module 2, 6 CFU).

Module 1 (3 CFU):

Figures and currents of Arabic Literature

Module 2 (6 CFU):

Phenomenology of representations of otherness between East and West.

Module 1:

- A. Kilito, L’autore e i suoi doppi. Saggio sulla cultura araba classica, Einaudi, Torino, 1988.

- M. Cassarino, Le Notti di Tawhidi: variazioni sull’adab, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2017, pp. 17-51.

- L. Capezzone, Dalla preminenza dei generi all’onnipresenza dell’io narrante: note sul canone letterario (e sul romanzo) nella cultura araba, in “Critica del testo”, III/1, 2000 (Il canone alla fine del millennio), pp. 391-417.

- H. Toelle, K. Zakharia, Alla scoperta della letteratura araba, Argo, 2010, pp. 183-213 (cap. 9: La letteratura popolare; cap. 10: Una letteratura dimenticata).

Module 2 (6 CFU):

- M. Cassarino (a cura di), Lo sguardo sull’altro, lo sguardo dell’altro. L’alterità in testi medievali, Introduzione di A. Pioletti, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2011.

- S. Pagani (a cura di), L’altro nella cultura araba, Presentazione di M.F. Corrao, Mesogea, Messina 2006, pp. 111-217.

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.