MODERN EUROPEAN LITTERATURES

Introduction to the study of literature as a supranational field of relationship between forms, themes, works.

The course is divided into three parts. The first part presents a general overview of problems and issues of comparative literature with particular attention to the anthropological fundamentals of narrative. The second part involves the historical analysis of the nineteenth century paradigm of the novel. The third part involves the reading of some narrative works of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A (Theory). Letterature comparate, a cura di Francesco de Cristofaro, Carocci; Jonathan Gottschall, L’istinto di narrare. Come le storie ci hanno reso umani, Bollati Boringhieri; Paolo Giovannetti, Il racconto, Carocci.

B (History). The earnestness of everyday life: the bourgeois novel. Erich Auerbach, Mimesis, vol. II, Einaudi, pp. 220-343; Franco Moretti, Il borghese, Einaudi; Guido Mazzoni, Teoria del romanzo, il Mulino, pp. 247-353.

C (Works). Two books of your choice: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac, Illusions perdues; Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary; Gustave Flaubert, L’éducation sentimentale; Giovanni Verga, Mastro-don Gesualdo; Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks; Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse.

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.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.