Unit LITERARY CRITICISM
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- GP005245
- Curriculum
- Letteratura e filologia italiana
- Teacher
- Sandro Gentili
- Teachers
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- Sandro Gentili
- Hours
- 36 ore - Sandro Gentili
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- 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.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.
For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - 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.
Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, consult the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) - 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.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies ensured by law, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of tests and exams. For general information, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or SLD Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - 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.