COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

The Course aims to transfer to the students the most advanced Concepts of recent Literary Debate, and to verify the Critical Skills of the students. These goals will be verified through a written essay and a final oral exam.

The First Part introduces to the Theory of Literature as a Form of Human and Cultural Communication. The Second Part focuses on the relationship between Modern Self, Power, and Freedom in Machiavelli and Shakespeare.

Modulo A – Literature Today

Text: F. Bertoni, Letteratura. Teorie, metodi, strumenti, Carocci, pp. 3-286.

Modulo B – Subjectivity, Power, and Freedom: Machiavelli and Shakespeare

Texts: Machiavelli, Il Principe, Einaudi; Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, Rizzoli (una selezione di capitoli verrà indicata a lezione; lo stesso per alcune lettere di Machiavelli che verranno messe a disposizione dal docente); W. Shakespeare, Amleto, Feltrinelli; Troilo e Cressida, Garzanti; Come vi piace, in Commedie romantiche, Mondadori.

A.Scuderi, La mente libera. Machiavelli e il libertino in fuga, Donzelli, (pp. 1-200).

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.