Textual Stylistics

Through the discussion of critical essays and literary works, the course aims at providing students with a thorough grounding in a number of theoretical issues that were much debated in the twentieth century, also in relation to textual analysis, in order to lead students to a deeper reflection on and analysis of the forms, modes and styles of literary texts, and to a contextualisation of the authors dealt with in the course.

Knowledge: students will deepen notions of literary theory and knowledge of methods of analysis, with particular attention to the theoretical proposals of the twentieth century concerning interpretation, the relationship between the stylistic-expressive level and the attribution of meanings, authorship and the relationship between text and context

Skills: students will gain mastery of different textual levels: the ability to reflect on issues of literary theory, to read and critically discuss writing in verse or prose, the ability to analyse literary text from a linguistic, stylistic and rhetorical point of view, the ability to understand different forms of criticism and to relate texts to their historical context, authorial identity and notions of genre.