Comparative Literature
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The course aims at introducing students to the comparative study of European and non-European literatures, as well as to the theoretical and methodological issues raised by this approach.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge: Students will achieve an in-depth knowledge of a selection of authors and works from several European and non-European literatures and they will gain a better understanding of the theoretical and methodological issues related to the study of literature.
Competence: By approaching a plurality of historical and cultural horizons in multiple languages, students will improve their hermeneutical competences and their ability to dialog with different cultures. At the end of the course, they will be able to autonomously apply the knowledge and the competences they will have gained to the study of literary works from different times and literatures.
Competence: By approaching a plurality of historical and cultural horizons in multiple languages, students will improve their hermeneutical competences and their ability to dialog with different cultures. At the end of the course, they will be able to autonomously apply the knowledge and the competences they will have gained to the study of literary works from different times and literatures.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The course will cover the work of Daniele Del Giudice, whose fiction and nonfiction writing will both be addressed, and other literature from Del Giudice's intertext, that is, authors of whom Del Giudice writes as an essayist or to whom he refers or alludes in his fiction. In part A of the course, therefore, we will read and discuss "Lo stadio di Wimbledon," "Atlante occidentale," "Nel museo di Reims," "Staccando l'ombra da terra," "Mania," "Orizzonte mobile," "In questa luce," and the other essays collected in "Del narrare." In Part B we will focus on Joseph Conrad and in Part C on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, but in both we may refer to other travel, flight or children's literature.
Prerequisites for admission
No prerequisites for admission.
International or Erasmus incoming students are kindly requested to contact the teacher of the course. Students with SLD should also contact the teacher, in order to discuss alternative examination methods, in agreement with the competent office.
International or Erasmus incoming students are kindly requested to contact the teacher of the course. Students with SLD should also contact the teacher, in order to discuss alternative examination methods, in agreement with the competent office.
Teaching methods
The topics of the course will be presented by the teacher and discussed with the students, also through sessions of group work.
Teaching Resources
Part A: fiction and nonfiction texts by Daniele Del Giudice.
Part B: Joseph Conrad, "Lord Jim" or "Nostromo," or other novels (students will be allowed to choose).
Part C: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Vol de nuit," and other texts (students will be allowed to choose).
Other fiction texts and essays may be proposed for Parts B and C. Complete and final directions will be given in class and on the course's Ariel website.
Part B: Joseph Conrad, "Lord Jim" or "Nostromo," or other novels (students will be allowed to choose).
Part C: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Vol de nuit," and other texts (students will be allowed to choose).
Other fiction texts and essays may be proposed for Parts B and C. Complete and final directions will be given in class and on the course's Ariel website.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam will consist of an interview in which students will be required to present the works on the syllabus and critically discuss them in relation to the issues addressed in the course. The overall evaluation will be in thirtieths. Students preparing the exam for 9 ECTS credits will have to prepare parts A, B and C. Students preparing the exam for 6 ECTS credits will be required to prepare Part A and either Part B or Part C (student's choice).
Unita' didattica A
L-FIL-LET/14 - LITERARY CRITICISM AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica B
L-FIL-LET/14 - LITERARY CRITICISM AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unita' didattica C
L-FIL-LET/14 - LITERARY CRITICISM AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor(s)
Reception:
Mondays, 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm, by appointment.
Dipartimento di Studi letterari, filologici e linguistici, Modern studies section, second floor