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LITERARY CRITICISM AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
LITERARY CRITICISM AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Elementary knowledge of (at least) one of the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish.
Objectives
Contents The course is divided into three steps: 1) a general introduction to semiotics and to literary semiotics; 2) the main theories and methods of literary criticism in the 19th Century; 3) comparative literature: theories, methods, and research-fields.
Extended Syllabus - The linguistic sign.
- Signification, communication, and interpretation.
- Text and textuality.
- Communication and literary communication.
- What a literary text is.
- Literary texts and possible worlds.
- Linguistic structuralism and literary structuralism.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Comparative literature.
- The main trends and topics in comparative literature.
Recommended Bibliography Chines, L., e Varotti, C., "Che cos’è un testo letterario", Roma, Carocci, 2012.
Lopopolo, M., "Che cos’è la letteratura comparata", Roma, Carocci, 2012.
Muzzioli, F., "Le teorie della critica letteraria", 2a ediz., Roma, Carocci, 2005.
Vitacolonna, L., "Semiotica", Brescia, La Scuola, 2008.
Teaching Methods
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Possible (in itinere) written exercises and tests and possible final oral or written examination.
Contacts/More Information Attendance is recommended.