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 Cultural and Intercultural Comparative Studies, with a special focus on the Return to Philology, according to E. Said, the Utopian Function of Literary Studies, and Elias Canetti’s New Humanism. The Second Part focuses on the relationship between Power, Chance and Freedom in Machiavelli and Shakespeare

E. Said, Umanesimo e critica democratica, Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2004; A. Scuderi, L’arcipelago del vivente. Umanesimo e diversità in Elias Canetti, Donzelli, Roma, 2016. F. Ferrucci, Il teatro della Fortuna. Potere e destino in Machiavelli e Shakespeare, Fazi, Roma. Letture: Machiavelli, Il principe, Einaudi; W. Shakespeare, Troilo e Cressida, Garzanti; Macbeth, Feltrinelli.