Academic Year 2018/2019
- Docente: Lara Michelacci
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Also valid for 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)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student is expected to have a deep knowledge on diachronical aspects of the Italian literary tradition, knows the critical discussion on the keys issues about texts and authors and is able to use the main tools of the methodological analysis of texts and contexts.
Course contents
Female characters/Male characters
The course addresses, from a conceptual and thematic point of view, the issue of female and male characters. The first module deals with the nineteenth century, with particular reference to Capuana and Tarchetti. The second module is dedicated to the characters in Elena Ferrante's and Maria Rosa Cutrufelli's writings.
Readings/Bibliography
Readings: L. Capuana, Profumo, Milano, Mondadori, 1996; L. Capuana, Novelle dal mondo occulto (Un caso di sonnambulismo; Il ritratto di ignota; La redenzione dei capilavori; Il dottor Cymbalus), edited by A. Cedola, Bologna, Pendragon, 2007, pp. 78-98, pp. 113-116; pp. 117-122; pp. 133-150; U. Tarchetti, Fosca, Milano, Mursia, 2009 (or Milano, Mondadori, 1981); E. Ferrante, L'amore molesto, Roma, Ed. e/o, 1992;E. Ferrante, My Brilliant friend, vol. 1, Roma, E/O, 2011.
Programme Gemma and Letterature moderne, comparate e postcoloniali: E. Ferrante, L’amore molesto, Roma, Ed. e/o, 1992.; the first vol. of Amica geniale, Roma, Ed. e/o, 2017.; M. R. Cutrufelli, La briganta, Palermo, Ed. del Pozzo, 1992;D'amore e d'odio, Milano, Frassinelli, 2008; a novel a between those anylized in M.A. Bazzocchi, Il codice del corpo: genere e sessualità nella letteratura italiana del Novecento, Bologna, Pendragon, 2016.
Bibliography:
L'invenzione delle personagge, a cura di Roberta Mazzanti, Silvia Neonato, Bia Sarasini, [Roma], Iacobelli, 2016, pp. 18-41.
L. Michelacci, Il microscopio e l’allucinazione. Luigi Capuana fra letteratura, scienza e anomalia, Bologna, Pendragon, 2015, pp. 79-115. E. Comoy Fusaro, La nevrosi tra medicina e letteratura: approccio epistemologico alle malattie nervose nella narrativa italiana, 1865-1922, Firenze, Polistampa, chap. 1 and 3 (the book is available on-line using the proxy).
B. Stagnitti, Dualismo onomastico scapigliato nell’ultimo romanzo di Tarchetti: Clara e Fosca, in «Otto/Novecento», XXXI, Gennaio-Aprile, 2007, pp. 1-10.
R. Mazzanti, Madri e figlie in Elena Ferrante, in Crispino A. M., Vitale M. (edited by), Dell’ambivalenza. Dinamiche di narrazione in Elena Ferrante, Julie Otsuka e Goliarda Sapienza, Roma, Iacobelli editore, 2016, pp. 88-104 e A. Pirri, Elena Ferrante: nomi e corpi ambivalenti, in in Crispino A. M., Vitale M. (edited by), Dell’ambivalenza. Dinamiche di narrazione cit., pp. 56-73.
N. Marchais, Dalla difficoltà all'impossibilità di diventare madre nella letteratura femminile contemporanea, in Madri: figure e figurazioni nella letteratura italiana contemporanea, Avellino, Sinestesie, 2014, pp. 285-329; M. Marras, Corporeità femminile e femminismo in “Disio” di S. Grasso e “L’amore molesto” di E. Ferrante, in «Narrativa» 30, 2008, pp. 151-163. T. De Rogatis, L’amore molesto di Elena Ferrante. Mito classico, riti di iniziazione e identità femminile, «Allegoria», 69-70, XXVI, 2014, pp. 273-308. T. de Rogatis, Elena Ferrante. Parole chiave, Roma, E/O, ©2018, pp. 27-54.
Students of the Master Gemma and of Letterature moderne, comparate e postcoloniali will read only the essays regarding Goliarda Sapienza and Elena Ferrante.
Teaching methods
The course will be divided in frontal lessons and laboratories on the texts.
Assessment methods
Those students who are able to demonstrate a wide and systematic understanding of the issues covered during the lessons, are able to use these critically and who master the field-specific language of the discipline will be given a mark of excellence.
Those students who demonstrate a mnemonic knowledge of the subject with a more superficial analytical ability and ability to synthesize, a correct command of the language but not always appropriate, will be given a ‘fair' mark.
A superficial knowledge and understanding of the material, a scarce analytical and expressive ability that is not always appropriate will be rewarded with a pass mark or just above a pass mark.
Students who demonstrate gaps in their knowledge of the subject matter, inappropriate language use, lack of familiarity with the literature in the programme bibliography will not be given a pass mark.
Teaching tools
Audio and video aids may be used in support of lectures.
Office hours
See the website of Lara Michelacci