28883 - Literature and Rhetoric (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will be acquainted with nomenclature, definitions and persuasive implications of the main argumentative techniques, with a particular attention to the rhetorical figures and their classification. He will also be able to apply the learnt knowledge through the analysis of literary texts.

Course contents

In the perspective of general rhetoric, the first part of the course considers the description of the discipline in its main internal expressions, as well as the presentation of its fundamental presence in the genres of the speech, which represent the special bond between rhetoric, literature and society.

During the first 30 hours-module, the extra-literary use of the discipline will be exemplified; the aim is to efficaciously explain the structural aspects of rhetoric in argumentation, inductive and deductive tests, tropes and other rhetorical figures.

Notably, the exemplifications will be taken from the relationships between rhetoric and politics, rhetoric and cinema, rhetoric and medicine.

The second part of the course, 30 hours-module, too, will focus on the rhetorical reading of some Italian classics, namely Dante's Inferno, Boccaccio's Decameron, Machiavelli's Il Principe, Alfieri's Tragedie, Foscolo's Sepolcri, Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi, De Roberto, Imperio, Bellonci, Lucrezia Borgia

The course will be held, starting from 3 February 2020, from 5pm to 7pm, at the Forti of the Department of Classical and Italian Philology in Via Zamboni 32.

 

Readings/Bibliography

Ch. Perelman L. Olbrechts Tyteca, Trattato della argomentazione. La nuova retorica, Torino, Einaudi, 2013 (solo capitolo: La base della argomentazione, pp-71-199).

F. Piazza, La retorica di Aristotele. Introduzione alla lettura, Roma, Carocci, 2015.

F. Piazza, Linguaggio, persasione e verità. La retorica nel Novecento, Roma, Carocci, 2006.

E. Raimondi, La retorica d'oggi, Bologna, il Mulino, 2012.

B. Capaci G. Spassini, Ad populum. Parlare alla pancia: retorica del populismo in Europa, Bologna, i libri di Emil, 2017.

M.P. Ellero, Retorica. Guida alla argomentazione e alle figure del discorso Roma, Carocci, 2017

E. Raimondi, La dissimulazione romanzesca. Antropologia manzoniana, Bologna, il Mulino, 2004

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Teaching methods

Frontal lesson with the help of multimedia, mainly in the first module

Assessment methods

LEARNING TESTS MODALITY

The test will be carried out by oral exam and conversation and will be eventually integrated by a multimedia didactic presentation.

Example of the evaluation range:

30 with honor:

Thorough knowledge of the contents of the bibliography and of the lessons, a precise and appropriate critical language, already inclined to the best didactic efficacy.

28-30:

Thorough knowledge of the bibliography and of the content of the lessons expressed by a precise and appropriate critical language with significant didactic clarity.

24-27:

Thorough knowledge of the bibliography and of the content of the lessons. Critical language with some inaccuracy and sometimes incongruous to the subject, presence of excessive simplifications during the exposition.

18-23:

Knowledge sometimes uncertain of the contents of the bibliography and of the lessons. Critical language presenting generalizations and incongruities. Presence of simplifications partially inadequate to the content of the exposition.

INVITE TO REPEAT THE TEST:

Serious failings in texts of the bibliography and in the subject of the lessons.

Office hours

See the website of Bruno Capaci [https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/bruno.capaci2/en]

Course Unit Page

• TeacherBruno Capaci [https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/bruno.capaci2/en]

• Credits12

• SSDL-FIL-LET/10

• Teaching ModeTraditional lectures

• LanguageItalian

• Course Timetable [http://www.artshumanitiesculturalheritage.unibo.it/en/programmes/course-unit-catalogue/course-unit/2016/412284/orariolezioni] from

Teaching tools

Audiovisual material used to illustrate some elements of the program.

Office hours

See the website of Bruno Capaci