Modern humanities

This course will be focused on the main Literary Theories of the 20th Century and on the methodologies of Comparative Literature. Students will understand what Comparative Literature is and how it is evolving; learn different approaches of comparative literary criticism, including thematic analysis, reception theory, cultural studies, gender studies, intertextuality and etc. A special focus will be devoted to the study of hypertextuality between literature and other arts, and to transmedia storytelling.

Knowledge of the fundamental historical lines of literature in the West.

- S. Sini, F. Sinopoli, Percorsi di teoria e di comparatistica letteraria (Pearson) - E. Biagini, A. Brettoni, P. Orvieto, Teorie critiche del Novecento (Carocci) Insights for non-attending students. Non-attenders will also study the material on the Pearson online platform, which can be accessed through the code printed on the cover of the volume.

The course consists of lectures preceded weekly by a programme outlining the topics to be covered. Frontal lessons may be accompanied by flipped classroom lessons in which students, individually or in small groups, present in oral form some of the topics covered by the teacher on the basis of the course bibliography and independent readings carried out by the students themselves. Part one of the course: presentation and development of the topics on the basis of the syllabus and textbooks; part two of the course: in-depth studies devoted from year to year to different aspects of literary theory and comparative studies.

non mandatory, mandatory for erasmus students

Attending students: oral examination on topics dealt during the course; non-attending students: conventional oral examination. Assessment of learning outcomes knowledge of the topics dealt with during the course and ability to understand: knowledge of the main methodologies for studying literature and of the main aspects of text analysis (author, work, character, literary genre, style, themes/myths, production and reception of literature, historical and cultural contextualisation); ability to outline a critical reasoning in front of a literary text and to contextualise it. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: ability to use the main theories and methodologies of literary study to deal with authors and texts by comparing them in order to identify the main aspects of analysis of the text as well as its thematic and cultural density. Autonomy of judgement: being able to compare different theories of the literary text, evaluating their limits and potential; ability to compare two or more texts, identifying similarities and differences on a general level.

lectures

This course will be focused on the main Literary Theories of the 20th Century and on the methodologies of Comparative Literature. Students will understand what Comparative Literature is and how it is evolving; learn different approaches of comparative literary criticism, including thematic analysis, reception theory, cultural studies, gender studies, intertextuality and etc. A special focus will be devoted to the study of hypertextuality between literature and other arts, and to transmedia storytelling.

Knowledge of the fundamental historical lines of literature in the West.

- S. Sini, F. Sinopoli, Percorsi di teoria e di comparatistica letteraria (Pearson) - E. Biagini, A. Brettoni, P. Orvieto, Teorie critiche del Novecento (Carocci) Insights for non-attending students. Non-attenders will also study the material on the Pearson online platform, which can be accessed through the code printed on the cover of the volume.

The course consists of lectures preceded weekly by a programme outlining the topics to be covered. Frontal lessons may be accompanied by flipped classroom lessons in which students, individually or in small groups, present in oral form some of the topics covered by the teacher on the basis of the course bibliography and independent readings carried out by the students themselves. Part one of the course: presentation and development of the topics on the basis of the syllabus and textbooks; part two of the course: in-depth studies devoted from year to year to different aspects of literary theory and comparative studies.

non mandatory, mandatory for erasmus students

Attending students: oral examination on topics dealt during the course; non-attending students: conventional oral examination. Assessment of learning outcomes knowledge of the topics dealt with during the course and ability to understand: knowledge of the main methodologies for studying literature and of the main aspects of text analysis (author, work, character, literary genre, style, themes/myths, production and reception of literature, historical and cultural contextualisation); ability to outline a critical reasoning in front of a literary text and to contextualise it. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: ability to use the main theories and methodologies of literary study to deal with authors and texts by comparing them in order to identify the main aspects of analysis of the text as well as its thematic and cultural density. Autonomy of judgement: being able to compare different theories of the literary text, evaluating their limits and potential; ability to compare two or more texts, identifying similarities and differences on a general level.

lectures