COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

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 those of extraeuropean literatures with reference to the several literary versions of Ulysses’ myth; 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.

1) The problems of comparative studies as a scientific subject.

2) Some examples of applied comparative studies and text analysis: the metamorphosis of Ulysses.

1) Letterature comparate, a cura di F. De Cristofaro, Carocci;

2) Piero Boitani, L’ombra di Ulisse, il Mulino;

3) selected works on Ulysses' myth.