Academic Year 2019/2020
- Docente: Gino Scatasta
- Credits: 3
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Asian Languages, Markets and Cultures (cod. 0980)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 0983)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Language, Society and Communication (cod. 8874)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the seminar (closely related to the objectives of the degree course), students acquire specific skills and notions in order to deal with linguistic and/or philological and/or literary and/or historical and/or artistic issues and problems.
Course contents
British and American comics and its translation
The seminar (30 hours, with a compulsory 80% attendance) will be held by experts and translators of contemporary and classic British and American comics. The aim is to provide attendees with basic skills about comics and their translation.
It is not only a workshop but also an introduction to the languages and the history of the comics, with some lessons focused on translation.
Readings/Bibliography
Daniele Barbieri, Breve storia della letteratura a fumetti, Roma, Carocci, 2014
Will Eisner, Comics and Sequential Art, Tamarac (Fl), Poorhouse Press, 1985 (tr. it. L'arte del fumetto: regole, tecniche e segreti dei grandi disegnatori, Milano, Rizzoli, 2010)
Gino Scatasta, "Tradurre il fumetto", in Romana Zacchi, Massimiliano Morini, a cura di, Manuale di traduzioni dall'inglese, Milano, B. Mondadori, 2002
Teaching methods
Lectures and workshops. The active participation of students in classroom activities is essential for the achievement of educational goals.
Assessment methods
At the end of the seminar, students must submit a translation in order to obtain 3 cfu.
Office hours
See the website of Gino Scatasta