- Docente: Donata Meneghelli
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/14
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Learning outcomes
The course aims at providing students with theoretical tools for interpreting literature in the new framework of visual culture which emerged at the threshold of modernity. Students acquire a deep knowledge of the relationships between verbal and visual texts in their multiple manifestations, and are familiar with the main theoretical categories and methodologies which have been elaborated by visual studies and have crossed (and transformed) literary studies themselves.
Course contents
Literature, photography, and illustration at the beginning of the Twentieth century: The collaboration between Henry James and Alvin Langdon Coburn
Classes will be in the second semester
Readings/Bibliography
1. Literary Texts:
A. Travel writings
► Henry James, Italian Hours
B. Novels and short stories
► Henry James, In the Cage
► Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
► Henry James, Daisy Miller
► Henry James, Four Meetings
2. Critical texts:
► Philip Dubois, L'acte photographique► Susan Sontag, On Photography
► John Urry, Jonas Larsen, The Tourist Gaze 3.0, London, Sage, 2011
► Michela Vanon, “Introduzione”, in Id. (a cura di), Camera Work. La rivista fotografica di Alfred Stieglitz 1903-1917, Torino, Einaudi.
► https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Langdon_Coburn
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Office hours
See the website of Donata Meneghelli
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.