- Docente: Silvia Albertazzi
- Credits: 3
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Silvia Albertazzi (Modulo 1) Maria Chiara Gnocchi (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
First cycle degree programme (L) in Asian Languages, Markets and Cultures (cod. 0980)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 0983)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Language, Society and Communication (cod. 8874)
Learning outcomes
Promoting World Literature
The seminar aims to provide the students with tools that will enable them to promote and disseminate literary culture on the territory, reflecting on the nowadays much used (and abused) concept of World Literature in a mature and critical way. Through a multi- and inter-disciplinary didactic approach, the student learns a methodology suitable for distinguishing and interpreting the various meanings attributed to the term, past and present standpoints of scholars and critics, the relations of World Literature with globalization, history, memory, orality and indigenous voices, translation, and the publishing market. A transversal path will be proposed to focus issues of cultural communication, offering strategies which will be useful also in a professionalizing perspective.
Course contents
Promoting World Literature
The seminar, organized by the members of CLOPEX (Centro studi sulle letterature omeoglotte dei paesi extra-europei), aims to provide the students with tools that will enable them to promote and disseminate literary culture on the territory, reflecting on the nowadays much used (and abused) concept of World Literature in a mature and critical way. Through a multi- and inter-disciplinary didactic approach, the student learns a methodology suitable for distinguishing and interpreting the various meanings attributed to the term, past and present standpoints of scholars and critics, the relations of World Literature with globalization, history, memory, orality and indigenous voices, translation, and the publishing market. A transversal path will be proposed to focus issues of cultural communication, offering strategies which will be useful also in a professionalizing perspective.
These are the themes that will be tackled with the help of specialists and the active participation of the students: Theory and methodology of world literature; World Lit. and canon; WL, ethics and globalization; World Poetry; WL, trauma, history and memory; WL and global South; global re-writings; transmediality and WL.
Readings/Bibliography
- S. Albertazzi (a cura di), Introduzione alla World Literature, Roma, Carocci 2021.
- G. Benvenuti, R. Ceserani, La letteratura nell’età globale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012.
Further readings will be suggested during the lessons.
Teaching methods
Meetings coordinated by the different members of CLOPEX, to emphasize the plurality of approaches to World Literature and its function in contemporary reality. Talks by specialists about the use of world literature in publishing, radio, theatre, the media in general.
Assessment methods
At the and the seminar the students will be required to present - individually or in groups - one of the following projects:
1) a proposal for a publishing project (translation, essay, book profile etc.)
2) a proposal for a radio broadcasting
3) a proposal of performative storytelling / civic theatre
Teaching tools
Multimedial tools
Office hours
See the website of Silvia Albertazzi
See the website of Maria Chiara Gnocchi