LETTERATURE COMPARATE

L-FIL-LET/14 - 9 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

GIUSEPPE TRAINA


Learning Objectives

Knowledge and understandig: Knowledge of the fundamental elements of comparative studies as a scientific subject; acquisition of comparatistic, thematic and intertextual research methodologies.

Applying knowledge and understanding: Ability to consider literary texts critically; ability to connect elements of European literatures with reference to the themes of support and compassion; ability to orient oneself within the printed and online bibliography; ability to link competences in an interdisciplinary fashion.

Making judgement: Critical ability to combine literary competences acquired in an interdisciplinary fashion and to interpret different sociolinguistic and cultural domains from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective.

Communication skills: Ability to present the results of one’s study in complex ways; ability to discuss literary contents effectively and critically.

Learning skills: Development of autonomous learning skills in studying the literary materials of the course with the aim of interacting with diverse interlocutors and in different working environments.


Course Structure

The lectures will be supplemented by seminars with other teachers and, if possible, by tests in progress.



Detailed Course Content

  1. Comparative literature as a discipline.
  2. Compatibility and support: a journey through literature and the art of Modernity.
  3. Seminar: Charlotte Salomon, Life? or theater?


Textbook Information

  1. Mariangela Lopopolo, Che cos’è la letteratura comparata, Carocci.
  2. Antonio Prete, Compassione. Storia di un sentimento, Bollati Boringhieri; Giacomo Magrini, Il braccio della poesia. Il sostegno e l’abbandono, Quodlibet; Beatrice Talamo, Mani anarchiche, mani nostalgiche, manicuore. La sfida d’inizio Novecento fra il corpo integro e le sue parti, Quodlibet; the poetic texts analyzed in the three books (the poems will be posted on the Studium platform); Leo Perutz, Dalle nove alle nove, Adelphi; Rainer M. Rilke, Storie del buon Dio, Passigli.



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