SOCIOLOGY OF LITERATURE

Introduction to sociological criticism as interpretation of the relationship text/context (influences of the social context on authors and works, ideological orientations involved in the text, forms of representation of the real) and as a research into the circulation of themes, genres and styles.

The course provides a dual articulation. In the first module, it is planned to study the themes, problems and main works of the sociology of 20th-century literature. The second module focuses on the representation of the metropolis in postmodern literature.

A Fondamenti (CFU 3).

- Gianni Turchetta, Critica, letteratura e società, Carocci.

- one of the following: Walter Benjamin, L’opera d’arte nell’epoca della riproducibilità tecnica, Einaudi; Walter Benjamin, Angelus Novus, Einaudi; Erich Auerbach, Mimesis, vol. II, Einaudi, capp. VIII-X; Roland Barthes, Miti d’oggi, Einaudi; Hans Robert Jauss, Storia della letteratura come provocazione, Bollati Boringhieri; Pierre Bourdieu, Le regole dell’arte, Il Saggiatore, pp. 53-176; Paolo Jedlowski, Il racconto come dimora, Bollati Boringhieri.

B Approfondimento (CFU 3).

Postmetropoli

-Paolo Perulli, Visioni di città, Einaudi; Vincenzo Trione, Effetto città. Arte/cinema/modernità, Bompiani, pp. 1-211;Anthony Vidler, Il perturbante dell’architettura, Einaudi, pp. 3-16, 185-247.

-Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili, Mondadori; Patrick Modiano, Un pedigree, Einaudi, oppure Via delle Botteghe Oscure, Bompiani; Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, Einaudi; Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow up, Golem video.

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.