ARABIC CULTURE AND LITERATURE 1

knowledge and understandig: students should acquire adequate methodological tools in order to develop critical skills, for a good comprehension of literary texts and other forms of cultural expression in an interdisciplinary frame.

applying knowledge and understanding: through lectures, seminars, tutorials and guided readings, students will be able to approach some literary texts, by combining their knowledge in an interdisciplinary way.

making judgement: thanks to their linguistic and critical tools, students will be able to apply independently their skills and knowledge to the reading and comprehension of simple literary texts (with levels of language difficulties and cultural content adapted to the state of their knowledge).

communication skills:students will be able to convey effectively what they have learned during the course of studies, by expressing clearly, with good expertise in this field.

learning skills: students will be able to use adjourned learning techniques (peer tutoring, lateral thinking, problem solving) aiming to increase their levels of knowledge.

The lessons will take place mainly according to a frontal and laboratory teaching method.

There are also seminars, language exercises and peer tutoring activities.

The course aims to introduce students to the history of arabic literature, through the study of literary genres and how these relate to and emerge out of the cultural contexts that formed them during the classical and post-classical periods. Through reading, analysis and translation of literary texts, students will explore the cultural topics of the Arab civilization.

knowledge and understandig:

Students should acquire adequate methodological tools in order to develop critical skills, for a good comprehension of literary texts and other forms of cultural expression in an interdisciplinary frame.

applying knowledge and understanding:

Through lectures, seminars, tutorials and guided readings, students will be able to approach some literary texts, by combining their knowledge in an interdisciplinary way.

making judgement:

Thanks to their linguistic and critical tools, students will be able to apply independently their skills and knowledge to the reading and comprehension of simple literary texts (with levels of language difficulties and cultural content adapted to the state of their knowledge).

communication skills:

Students will be able to convey effectively what they have learned during the course of studies, by expressing clearly, with good expertise in this field.

learning skills:

Students will be able to use adjourned learning techniques (peer tutoring, lateral thinking, problem solving) aiming to increase their levels of knowledge.

• D. Amaldi, Storia della letteratura araba classica, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2004.
• un testo a scelta tra:

1. J. Sharlet, Patronage and Poetry in the Islamic World: Social Mobility and Status in the Medieval Middle East and Central Asia, London - New York, 2011 (pp. 1-237)
2. S. Pinckney Stetkevych, The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode, Bloomington, Indiana, 2002, cap. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (pp. 1-240)

• W. P. Heinrichs, “Rhetorical figures”, in J.S. Meisami – P. Starkey (eds.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, vol. 1, New York, 1998, pp. 656–662.
• M. Cassarino (a cura di), Le mille e una notte. Le storie più belle, Einaudi, 2006.
• un testo a scelta tra:

1. J.Laveille Le thème du voyage dans Les mille et une nuits. Du Maghreb à la Chine, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1998 (pp. 1-85)
2. J. E. Montgomery, "Al-Sindbad and Polyphemus: Reflections on the Genesis of an Archetype"; e R. van Leeuwen, "Space as a Metaphor in alf Laylah wa-laylah: the Archetypal City", in Angelika Neuwirth et. alii (eds.) Myths, Historical Archetypes and Symbolic Figures in Arabic Literature: Towards a New Hermeneutic Approach (Proceedings of the International Symposium in Beirut, June 25th-June 30th, 1996), Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999, pp. 437-466; pp. 493-505

Per la traduzione dei testi letterari:

• R.Traini: “Vocabolario arabo-italiano”, Roma IPO, 1965-1973 (e successive ristampe).

Materiali integrativi e testi in lingua saranno indicati e forniti dal docente durante il corso.

• Gli studenti non frequentanti sono tenuti a contattare il docente per ricevere indicazioni sui testi e sui materiali didattici utilizzati.