COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

The teaching is part of the basic disciplines of the degree course in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation. The main objective of the course is to provide the tools to relate literatures and cultures of different languages and countries, applying different interpretative methodologies.

1. Knowledge and understanding:
- Knowledge of the cultural and literary aspects of the various geographical areas with particular reference to the Spanish and English-speaking linguistic communities;
- Knowledge of the contemporary history of the countries of the studied languages, through their literature;
- Knowledge of the main intercultural phenomena of different linguistic communities with particular reference to those of Spanish and English speakers.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
- Knowing how to establish relations between the culture of the countries and the communities of the two languages of study and their own culture;
- Knowing how to read a literary text to obtain useful information for the knowledge of the history and culture of a country;
- Knowing how to build links between different cultures and different forms of culture.
3. Ability to judge:
- Ability to interpret a literary text in relation to the historical-cultural reality in which the text and the reader have fallen.
4. Communication skills:
- Know how to use a suitable basic vocabulary of literary and historical scope.
5. Learning skills:
- Know how to critically use literary and theoretical texts and relate them;
- Knowing how to insert specific knowledge on a text in a wider knowledge.

There is no prerequisite, if not a good knowledge of Italian.

This course will be a reading and analysis of some novels and movies of the last decades, to understand the transition from postmodernism to the 2000s.

Criticism:

V. Re, A. Cinquegrani, L'innesto. Realtà e finzioni da Matrix a 1q84, Mimesis, 2014, da p. 194 in poi.
A. Cinquegrani, Impostori! Verità e menzogna nella letteratura contemporanea, https://odradek.cfs.unipi.it/index.php/odradek/article/view/55

Reading:

P. Auster, Trilogia di New York, Einaudi
E. Carrère, L'Avversario, Adelphi
J. Cercas, Soldati di Salamina, Bompiani
M. Covacich, A nome tuo, Einaudi o La nave di Teseo

Movies:

Q. Tarantino, Pulp Fiction
S. Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut

The verification of learning will be based on an oral interview. The knowledge of critical texts and the topics of the lessons and the ability to analyze novels and films will be verified.

Frontal lesson. Seminars on some points considered particularly important and stimulating for the student will be discussed in seminar lessons.

Italian

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development