Oriental languages and civilizations

GENERAL OBJECTIVES: The general objective of the course is to enable students to gain a good level of knowledge of a complex of significant literary texts of the Chinese civilization of specific periods, knowing how to place them in the literary, cultural and historical context. The course will propose the analysis of some texts in the original language, allowing students to correctly evaluate some of their formal characteristics and to contextualize them in the literary landscape of the time. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: a) Knowledge and understanding: The course will provide knowledge of the development trends of Chinese literature in the period under consideration. It will also promote the critical understanding of the formal and thematic structure of some types of text chosen according to their linguistic level and representativeness; b) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: upon completion of the course the students will have acquired the ability to place the main authors and the most relevant works of literary history they have studied in the historical and cultural context of reference. Thanks to the analysis of the forms and techniques of literary communication carried out during the course, they will be able to understand the overall structure, contents and style of some types of text. This knowledge will enhance the students' argumentative skills and the ability to apply formal analysis methods to some types of text; c) autonomy of judgment: at the end of the course, on the basis of the theoretical and methodological knowledge acquired, students should have gained the ability to independently collect the data necessary for the historical-literary contextualization of a work. They should also be able to critically examine some types of texts independently, as well as be able to formulate autonomous and motivated judgments in relation to the socio-cultural issues connected to them; d) Communication skills: at the end of the course, students should have achieved the ability to convey contents of classical Chinese literature correctly and clearly; e) Learning skills: the course aims to give students a useful learning ability to access subsequent historical-literary studies with a sufficient degree of autonomy.