75349 - Literature and Visual Studies (LM)

Course contents

Literature and Photography at the Thresholds of Modernism:

Henry James’s and H.G. Wells’ collaborations with Alvin Langdon Coburn

The course will be in the second semester (Feb-March)

Readings/Bibliography

1. Literary texts

► Henry James, The Prefaces, in Id., Literary Criticism, The Library of America, vol. II (students will only read the prefaces to: The Portrait of a Lady, What Maisie Knew, The Riverberator, The Golden Bowl)

A. Novels and novellas:

► Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

► Henry James, In the Cage

► Henry James, The Riverberator

B. Short stories:

► Henry James, "The Real Thing"

► Henry James,"Four Meetings"

► H.G. Wells, The Door in the Wall and Other Stories

 

2. Critical texts

► Alvin Langdon Coburn Photographer: An Autobiography, a cura di Helmut e Alison, Gernsheim, New York, Dover Publications

► Philip Dubois, L’acte photographique

► Susan Sontag, On Photographyi

► Michela Vanon, "Introduzione", in Camera Work. La rivista fotografica di Alfred Stieglitz 1903-1917, ed. Michela Vanon, Torino, Einaudi

► Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

► https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Langdon_Coburn

For students non attending classes

Students who will not attend classes, will NOT read H.G. Wells, La porta nel muro e altri racconti (section 1.B), and WILL READ INSTEAD Ralph F. Bogardus, Pictures and Texts. Henry James, A.L. Coburn, and New Ways of Seeing in Literary Culture, Ann Arbor, Michigan, UMI Research Press (section 2). The book, which is not present in the Bologna inter-library system, will be made available by Prof. Meneghelli.

Teaching methods

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Office hours

See the website of Donata Meneghelli