Unit LITERARY CRITICISM

Course
Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
Study-unit Code
GP005200
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Sandro Gentili
Teachers
  • Sandro Gentili
Hours
  • 36 ore - Sandro Gentili
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2022
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Metodologie linguistiche, filologiche, comparatistiche e della traduzione letteraria
Academic discipline
L-FIL-LET/14
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
Stylistic and structuralist criticism: Leo Spitzer, Erich Auerbach, Giuseppe De Robertis, Gianfranco Contini, Angelo Monteverdi, Luigi Blasucci, Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo, on Racine, Woolf, Proust, Baudelaire, Dante, Marino, Leopardi, Montale, Woolf, Proust, Baudelaire.
Reference texts
P.V. Mengaldo, Prima lezione di stilistica, Bari, Laterza, 2007;
L. Spitzer, Critica stilistica e semantica storica, Bari, Laterza, 1975;
E. Auerbach, Mimesis. Il realismo nella letteratura occidentale, Torino, Einaudi, 1973.
Educational objectives
The teaching is the main opportunity to have un introduction to literary criticism, in particular to stylistic criticism and analysis of literary texts. The main Knowledge should cover: 1) Knowledge of the basic elements of literary theory; 2) Knowledge of the basic elements of history of literary criticism; 3) Knowledge of the stylistic method in literary criticism. The main skills will be: Knowing how to analyze and comment on a literary text.
Prerequisites
In order to understand and to make a development of the knowledge of the literary concepts provided from teaching, you must have a basic knowledge of literature and literary criticism. This precondition is valid both for attending and not attending students.
Teaching methods
The predominant teaching method consists of lectures in the classroom assisted, if necessary, by multimedia tools, or distance learning. It also provides exercises of text analysis.
Other information
Reception Hours:
Wednesday, 11-13
Learning verification modality
The exam includes only the final oral test consisting of a discussione-interview on the topics discussed during the course and examined in-depth through recommended texts. The test aimes at assuring the level of knowledge and understanding, as well as synthesis, achieved by the student. Moreover, this interview will verify that the student is able to communicate, with method, propriety of language and of exposure, what he has acquired. The duration of the test varies depending on the peformance of the test itself.
Extended program
Stylistic criticism: history and method. Essays by Leo Spitzer, Erich Auerbach, Giuseppe De Robertis, Gianfranco Contini, Angelo Monteverdi, Luigi Blasucci, Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo. Elements of tjeory and history of literary criticism. Critical exercises on Racine, Woolf, Proust, Baudelaire, Dante, Marino, Leopardi, Montale.
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