CONTEMPORARY COMMUNICATION MODELS (ARABIC)

The course aims to deepen the knowledge related to literature and other models of expression in the contemporary Arab world. In this sense, it constitutes one of the key courses in the LICAAM master's degree program.

The course aims at developing the students’ language skills as well as their knowledge of the Arabic literary heritage through the analysis of important innovative trends witnessed since the 1970s.

Knowledge of Arabic language and literature acquired in the Bachelor’s course.

The course will offer an overview of distinctive features of postmodern Arabic literature, mostly focusing on fiction and on intertextuality. It will consider significant works, thereof providing a comprehensive analysis, followed by the examination of selected passages, aimed at identifying the main stylistic-linguistic characteristics of the texts. Concomitantly, it will briefly deal with a number of translation related issues.

Material provided by the teacher.

Bibliography:

- Allen, Roger, The Arabic Novel, Syracuse & New York: Syracuse University Press, 1994.
- Barresi, Ferial, Narratori egiziani contemporanei, Roma: Istituto per l'Oriente, 1977.
- Bertazzoli, Raffaela, La traduzione: teorie e metodi, Roma: Carocci, 2007.
- Casini, Lorenzo, Fuori degli argini. Racconti del ’68 egiziano, Roma: Edizioni Lavoro, 2003.
- Deheuvels L., Michalak-Piluska B., Starkey P. (eds),Intertextuality in Modern Arabic Literature since 1967, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2009.
- Dickins J., Hervey S. & Higgins I., Thinking Arabic Translation. A course in Translation Method: Arabic to English, London and NY: Routledge, 2002.
- Eco, Umberto, Dire quasi la stessa cosa, Milano: Bompiani, 2003
- Hafez, Sabry, "An Arabian Master", in A Tool for Change: Abdel Rahman Munif Remembered, The MIT Journal of Middle East Studies,Vol. 7, Spring 2007, pp.156-176.
- Jarrar, Maher, "Upon Leaving the Bridge & Endings: A Redemptive Journey", in A Tool for Change: Abdel Rahman Munif Remembered, The MIT Journal of Middle East Studies,Vol. 7, Spring 2007, pp. 59-69.
- Kendall E., Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde. Intersection in Egypt, London & New York: Routledge, 2006.
- Mehrez, Samia, Egyptian Writers between History and Fiction: Essays on Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim and Gamal al-Ghitani, Cairo: AUC Press, 1994 and 2004, pp. 39-57, 96-146.
- Munday, Jeremy, Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications, London and New York: Routledge, 2001.
- Neuwirth A., Pflitsch A. & Winckler B. (eds), Arabic Literature. Postmodern Perspectives, London: Saqi, 2010.
- Osimo, Bruno, Manuale del traduttore - guida pratica con glossario, Milano: Hoepli, 3° ed. 2011.
- Tamer, Zakariyya, Racconti, introduzione e traduzione di Eros Baldissera, Roma: IPO, 1979.
- Venuti, Lawrence, The Translator's Invisibility: a History of Translation, London & New York: Routledge, 1995.


Dictionaries:

- Baldissera, E., Vocabolario arabo-italiano/italiano-arabo, Milano: Zanichelli, 2013.
- al-Maany, http://www.almaany.com/
- Traini, R., Vocabolario arabo-italiano, Roma: Istituto per l’Oriente, 1993.
- Tresso C.M., Dizionario arabo - italiano-arabo, Milano: Hoepli, 2014.Further bibliography, related to each lesson, will be promptly provided during the course.

The methods of verification of learning are multiple.

Frontal lessons and discussion in the classroom, individual presentations and discussion in the classroom, indications concerning the preparation of an individual paper and the presentation of it to the colleagues.

Italian

written and oral