MODERN EUROPEAN LITTERATURES

Lectures

The course is divided into two parts. The first part includes the presentation of the main problems of literature theory with particular reference to the nineteenth and twentieth century novels according to a comparative approach. The second part explores the representation of the city and the urban imagination in the second half of the twentieth century, through the reading of some narrative and filmic texts.

Theory

1. Federico Bertoni, Letteratura, Carocci, pp. 1-286

2. Don DeLillo, Underworld, Einaudi; Gustave Flaubert, La signora Bovary, ed. at your choice; Vladimir Nabokov, Fuoco pallido, Adelphi; Robert Louis Stevenson, Il Master di Ballantrae, ed. at your choice.

Focus

The City: Discourse Vision Path

1. Massimo Schilirò, Un’introduzione, in Figure di città, num. monografico di “Le forme e la storia”, 2, 2012, pp. 7-24; Paolo Perulli, Visioni di città, Einaudi, pp. 1-163; Vincenzo Trione, Effetto città. Arte/cinema/modernità, Bompiani, pp. 1-211;Massimo Schilirò, Catania di carta, Il Palindromo, 2015, pp. 9-135.

2. Two works of your choice between: Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili, Mondadori; Patrick Modiano, Un pedigree, Einaudi; Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, Einaudi; Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow up, Golem video; Goliarda Sapienza, Io, Jean Gabin, Einaudi.

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.