LATIN LITERATURE 2
Oral exam.
Module 1
It will be assessed the ability of the student to develop a critical discourse on authors, forms and problems of literary history.
Module 2
t will be assessed the ability of the student to understand the texts in the original language (texts should be read metrically, translated and commented).
Module 1
The critical acquisition of knowledge about the history of Latin Literature.
Module 2
The ability to read and understand Latin literary, documentary texts, sources.
The course aims to provide a general introduction to Latin literature by means of a close reading of major literary genres in a diachronic perspective. In particular, we will explore the main aspects of the Latin poetry of the first century BC. The aim is to provide students with the opportunity to acquire the essential tools for the literary analysis (Module 1), that also involves linguistic, stylistic and metrical properties of the text (Module 2). In addition will be identified Virgilian echoes in Italian contemporary poetry.
Module 1
Il bosco sacro. Letteratura e antropologia di Roma antica (or: Nemora), Ed. by M. Bettini, Firenze, La Nuova Italia [to be studied until the second century A.D.].The handbook indicated includes an anthology, the reading of which is recommended.
Module 2
A. Traina - G. Bernardi Perini, Propedeutica al latino universitario, Bologna, Pàtron.
Vergil, Aeneid - An Anthology (the edition will be provided at the beginning of the course).
Additional references will be provided at the beginning of the course, along with further material useful for attending lessons.
Students that are not able to attend classes are asked to contact the professor in order to agree an integrative learning program.
Face to face. Classroom and interactive lectures; workshop activities on the text studied.
L10, curriculum "Linguistica e letterature moderne":
Module 1 = Letteratura latina 1 (Course compulsory)
Module 2 = Letteratura latina 2 (Course optional)
Contacts:
email: bruzzone@uniss.it; antonellabruzzone@hotmail.com
tel.: 079-229623; 338-2519709
studio: via M. Zanfarino 62, III piano
Reception hours:
In the hour following the lesson; additional reception hours will be announced weekly on the website dissufdidattica.uniss.it.