75839 - Seminar (1) (G-B)

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Humanities (cod. 8850)

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 (30 hours for 6 CFU) will be dedicated to study on the complex cultural construction of Europe. From the philological reading of selected texts the student will know the relevant 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.

I. Philological reading of ancient texts (Herodotus and Greek historians, Caesar, Ovid, etc.) and modern one (Voltaire, Montesquieu, etc.) as a historiographical texts (F. Chabod, History of the idea of Europe; M. Banniard, The cultural origins of Europe etc.) dedicated to the concept of geographical Europe, mythical and literary.

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 possibile 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 theaters or movies.

Schedule:

monday,  h. 11-13, Via Zamboni 32, aula Pascoli

tuesday,, h. 11-13, Via Zamboni 32, aula Pascoli

wednesday, h. 11-13, Via Zamboni 32, aula Pascoli

Readings/Bibliography

Readings/Bibliography

Textes read during classes will be edited by the Professor, ask her for more information. Classes will start on March 18, 2019.

Students have to read two books and two essays from these:

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 Bollettino '900 - 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

- Seminars

- Video projection

Assessment methods

- Oral examination

- If the student has decided to submit a written essay, evaluation will include oral presentation in front of his mates. The Teacher will judge the ability of synthesis, the correct use of language, coherence of argument, as well as contents and form of the paper.

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