COMPARATIVE LITERATURES

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2021/2022

Type of Course:

Basic

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL MEDIATION

Disciplinary Sector:

LITERARY CRITICISM AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

ONOFRI Massimo

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

The course requires a knowledge of the history of literary comparative studies, literary criticism and of the theory of twentieth-century literature.

AF code:

40001564

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The course aims to achieve a thorough knowledge of the history of literary comparative studies, critique and the theory of twentieth century literature, but also of the publishing industry, in view of a competent application of the specific linguistic and cultural tools required by the discipline

Contents

The course offers an in-depth and comparative analysis of two European writers who have ventured with a spurious and plural nonfiction and critic prose, particularly inventive and difficult to classify, such as Elias Canetti and Winfried Georg Sebald.

Recommended Bibliography

E. Canetti, "La lingua salvata", Adelphi, (only 1 chapter pp. 13-52)
E. Canetti, “Potere e sopravvivenza”, Adelphi, pp. 160 (ALL);
W. G. Sebald, “Vertigini”, Adelphi, pp. 229 (ALL);
“Il fantasma della memoria. Conversazioni con W. G. Sebald”, a cura L. S. Schwartz, Treccani, pp. 164 (This book should not be taken but it is only recommended to better understand Sebald especially if you have not attende)

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Lectures

Contacts/More Information

For further information write to the professor

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