ORIGINS OF EUROPEAN LITERATURES

L-FIL-LET/09 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

GAETANO LALOMIA


Learning Objectives

The course aims to study texts that gave birth to modern European culture starting from the Middle Ages with particular reference to the genre of the short story (novella).


Course Structure

Frontal lession using ppt.



Detailed Course Content

The course is divided into two sections:

  1. Texts transmission;
  2. Shor story (novella): from Middle Ages to our days


Textbook Information

A) Texts’ transmission

  1. Varvaro, Alberto, Prima lezione di filologia, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012 (pp. 144) ;
  2. Pioletti, Antonio, Cercando quale Europa. Appunti per un canone euromediterraneo, in Dai pochi ai molti. Studi in onore di Roberto Antonelli, a cura di P. Canettieri e Arianna Punzi, Viella, Roma 2014, vol. II, pp. 1335-45 ;
  3. Pioletti, Antonio, Canone e sistemi culturali fra Oriente e Occidente, in «Le forme e la storia», 2008, pp. 779-891.

 

B) La novella : from Decameron to Gianni Celati

  1. Picone, Michelangelo, Il racconto, in Letteratura romanza medievale. Una storia per generi, a cura di C. Di Girolamo, il Mulino, Bologna 1994, pp. 193-247.

 

Analysis of the chosen texts from :

  1. Sendebar ;
  2. Mille e una notte ;
  3. G. Boccaccio, Decameron;
  4. Fabliaux;
  5. Maria di Francia, Lais ;
  6. Don J. Manuel, Conde Lucanor ;
  7. M. de Navarre, Heptaméron ;
  8. G.B. Basile, Cunto de li cunti ;
  9. G. Verga, Novelle ;
  10. G. Celati, Quattro novelle sulle apparenze, Feltrinelli, Milano 1989 (per intero).

Texts will be put on Studium

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.




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