75839 - Seminar (1) (G-B)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the seminar (activity closely related to the goal of the degree program), the student acquires specific skills and notions to deal with linguistic and/or philological and/or literary and/or historical and/or artistic issues.

Course contents

The course for 30 hours and for 6 credits (March 22, 2021-April 28, 2021) will be dedicated to study on the complex cultural construction of Europe. From the philological reading of selected texts, the students will know the dedicated literature and will acquire, through a critical analysis of the historical and literary sources, a specific skill, even relative to the contributions that the medieval romance tradition has procured the modern idea of literary Europe.

Classes will start on March 22, 2021

Due to the high demand for participation (approx. 240 students), it has been necessary to enrol a maximum of 70 participants with a password. For reasons of prerequisites, preference will be given to those who have already taken and/or are planning to take the exam in Romance Philology. Those interested can send an e-mail to: giuseppina.brunetti@unibo.it and receive a password to access the course.

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Place and course timetable:

Monday, 11:00-13:00, Via Zamboni 32, aula Pascoli

Tuesday, 11:00-13:00, Via Zamboni 32, aula Pascoli

Wednesday 11:00-13:00, Via Zamboni 32, aula Pascoli

I. Philological reading of ancient texts (Herodotus and Greek historians, Caesar, Ovid, etc.) and modern texts (Voltaire, Montesquieu, etc.) as a historiographical texts (F. Chabod, Storia dell'idea d'Europa; M. Banniard, La genesi culturale dell'Europa etc.) dedicated to the concept of geographical, mythical and literary Europe.

II. Philological reading of modern literary texts – seen from different perspectives: ‘the poetry of war’; ‘the history of forms: poetry, story, novel’; etc. – where is possible to recognize the influence of medieval texts novels: poetry (Pound, Beckett, Pasolini, D’Elia etc. ), fiction (MV Montalbán, G. Bufalino, Th. Mann, A. Byatt etc.), with readings from theatres or movies.

Readings/Bibliography

For attending students (attendance is almost mandatory for a seminar), the essential basis for the preparation of the exam will be the notes of the lessons and the handout edited by the Professor available in hard copy and online on IOL platform [https://iol.unibo.it].

For the preparation of the exam, the reading of two volumes of your choice and two essays included in the list included in the lecture notes are mandatory. Some of the passages analysed during the lessons, in addition to the sources, will be taken from:

E. AUERBACH, Philologie der Weltliteratur / Filologia della letteratura mondiale, nuova traduzione con testo a fronte di Regina Engelmann, introduzione di E. Salvaneschi e S. Endrighi, Bologna, Book Editore 2006

Federico Chabod, Storia dell’idea d’Europa a cura di Ernesto Sestan e Armando Saitta, Bari, Laterza, 1961.

Edward Said, Orientalism [1977], tr. it. Orientalismo. L’immagine europea dell’Oriente, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1999.

Theodor W. Adorno, Sulla tradizione (1966), in Parva Aestetica. Saggi 1958-1967, Frankfurt a. M., Suhrkamp, 1967 (trad. it. Milano, Feltrinelli, 1979, pp. 27-39).

Roberto Antonelli, Filologia e modernità, in E. R. Curtius, Letteratura europea e medioevo latino, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1992, pp. vi-xxxiv (trad. it. a cura di A. Luzzatto, M. Candela, C. Bologna di E.R.Curtius, Europäische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter, Bern, Francke Verlag, 1948).

Michel Banniard, La genesi culturale dell’Europa, Bari, Laterza, 1994.

Ezio Raimondi, L’Italianistica e l’Europa (lezione del 22 maggio 1996), in versione cartacea: n. sei-undici, 1997, pp. 12-18 - versione web: 1996, n. 2, II semestre [http://www3.unibo.it/boll900/numeri/1996-ii/] [http://www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/boll900/default.html] - Electronic Newsletter of '900 Italian Literature - © 1995-1997

Aurelio Roncaglia, L’Europa e la Filologia romanza [in: «Bulletin de la Classe des Lettres et des Sciences Morales et Politiques», 6e série, Tome IX (1998), pp. 83-94; trad. it. di G. Brunetti].

Giorgio Agamben, L’archivio e la testimonianza, in Quel che resta di Auschwitz. L’archivio e il testimone, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1998

Identité littéraire de l’Europe. Sous la direction de Marc Fumaroli, Yves Bonnefoy, Harald Weinrich, Michel Zink, Paris, PUF, 2000.

Europa: miti di identità a c. di Carlo Ossola, Venezia, Marsilio, 2001.

Le radici prime dell’Europa. Gli intrecci genetici, linguistici, storici a c. di Gianluca Bocchi e Mauro Ceruti, Milano, Mondadori, 2001.

Walther Freund, Modernus e altre idee di tempo nel Medioevo. Prefazione di Remo Bodei (trad. it. a cura di G. Santamaria), Milano, Medusa, 2001.

Lucia Passerini, Il mito d’Europa. Radici antiche per nuovi simboli, Firenze, Giunti editore 2002.

Paolo Bagni, Tra Europa e utopia: rileggendo Mimesis in Memoria, storia, romanzo. Intersezioni e forme della scrittura francese medievale a cura di G. Brunetti, in «Francofonia», 45 (2003), pp. 13-25.

James Boardman, Archeologia della nostalgia. Come i greci reinventarono il loro passato, Milano, Mondadori, 2004.

Peter Burke, Lingue e comunità nell’Europa moderna, il Mulino, Bologna, 2006.

Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo, Parole e Il ruolo della cultura, in La vendetta è il racconto. Testimonianze e riflessioni sulla Shoah, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2007, pp. 59-68 e 111-116.

M. Zambrano, L’agonia dell’Europa, Venezia, Marsilio, 1999 (Buenos Aires 1945)

Teaching methods

Teaching methods

Seminar classroom meetings will be accompanied by projections from documentaries and soundtracks.

Assessment methods

- Oral examination (the Professor also offers the opportunity to present and exhibit a short-written essay on an agreed topic).

The evaluation will follow the following indications:

• Not suitable: absence or strong deficiency of the basics in the ability to read and analyse texts; incompleteness of the program studied; inability to express correctly;
• Suitable: possession of the basics; good understanding of texts; critical ability to connect between different contents, correct expression.

Teaching tools

Lessons can be supported by powerpoint or short movies.

For further informations see the link below

http://www.unibo.it/SitoWebDocente/default.aspx?UPN=giuseppina.brunetti%40unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Giuseppina Brunetti