LITERARY CRITICISM AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0078

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in LINGUISTIC MEDIATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

LITERARY CRITICISM AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

VITACOLONNA Luciano

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

Elementary knowledge of (at least) one of the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish.

Objectives

Acquisition of the main semiotic conceptions which are indispensable to deal with the general question of literariness as well as of the production, the circulation, and the reception of literay texts in a constant comparison between texts belonging to different literatures and cultures.

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

Frontal lessons.

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.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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