75839 - Seminar (1) (G-B)

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

Seminar: History of the idea of Europe

Prof. Giuseppina Brunetti

Contents

The course for 30 hours and for 6 credits (March 20, 2023-May 5, 2023) will be dedicated to study on the complex cultural construction of Europe. From the philological reading of selected texts, the students will know the dedicated 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 texts (Voltaire, Montesquieu, etc.) as a historiographical texts (F. Chabod, Storia dell'idea d'Europa; M. Banniard, La genesi culturale dell'Europa etc.) dedicated to the concept of geographical, mythical and literary Europe.

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 possible 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 theatres or movies.

Due to the high demand for participation (approx. 240 students), it was necessary to provide for password registration for a maximum of 50 participants. For reasons of prerequisites, priority in enrolment is given to those who have already taken and/or have in their study plan the examination in Romance Philology. Those interested can send an e-mail to: giuseppina.brunetti@unibo.it and receive the password to access the course.

Readings/Bibliography

For attending students (attendance is almost mandatory for a seminar), the essential basis for the preparation of the exam will be the notes of the lessons and the handout edited by the Professor available online on Virtuale.

For the preparation of the exam, the reading of two volumes of your choice and two essays included in the list included in the lecture notes are mandatory. Some of the passages analysed during the lessons, in addition to the sources, will be taken from:

Volumes

M. Banniard, La genesi culturale dell’Europa, Bari, Laterza, 1994.

J. Boardman, Archeologia della nostalgia. Come i greci reinventarono il loro passato, Milano, Mondadori, 2004.

Le radici prime dell’Europa. Gli intrecci genetici, linguistici, storici, a cura di G. Bocchi, M. Ceruti, Milano, Mondadori, 2001.

P. Burke, Lingue e comunità nell’Europa moderna, Bologna, il Mulino, 2006.

L’idea di Europa, a cura di D. De Luzenberger, M. L. Pelosi, Palermo, Loffredo, 2011.

L. Febvre, L’Europa storia di una civiltà, Roma, Donzelli, 1999.

W. Freund, Modernus e altre idee di tempo nel Medioevo, prefazione di R. Bodei, Milano, Medusa, 2001.

Identité littéraire de l’Europe. Sous la direction de M. Fumaroli, Y. Bonnefoy, H. Weinrich, M. Zink, Paris, PUF, 2000.

C. Malandrino, S. Quirico, L’idea di Europa. Storie e prospettive, Roma, Carocci, 2020

Europa: miti di identità, a cura di C. Ossola, Venezia, Marsilio, 2001.

L. Passerini, Il mito d’Europa. Radici antiche per nuovi simboli, Firenze, Giunti, 2002.

E. Said, Orientalismo. L’immagine europea dell’Oriente, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1999 [1977].

Essays

T. W. Adorno, Sulla tradizione (1966), in Parva Aestetica. Saggi 1958-1967, Frankfurt a. M., Suhrkamp, 1967 (trad. it. Milano, Feltrinelli, 1979, pp. 27-39).

R. 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, 1948).

P. 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.

B. Baldi, Enea Silvio Piccolomini e il ‘De Europa’: umanesimo, religione e politica, in «Archivio Storico Italiano», 161/4 (2003) pp. 619-683.

U. Eco, Dalla terra piatta alla terra cava, in Segni e sogni della terra. Il disegno del mondo dal mito di Atlante alla geografia delle reti, Milano, 2001, pp. 15-22.

P. V. 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.

Au. Roncaglia, L’Europa e la Filologia romanza, in «Bulletin de la Classe des Lettres et des Sciences Morales et Politiques», VI sér., IX (1998), pp. 83-94 (trad. it. di G. Brunetti).

Classes will start on March 20, 2023

Place and course timetable:

Monday, 11:00-13:00, Via Zamboni 32, aula Pascoli

Tuesday, 11:00-13:00, Via Zamboni 32, aula Pascoli

Wednesday 11:00-13:00, Via Zamboni 32, aula Pascoli

Teaching methods

Teaching methods

Seminar classroom meetings will be accompanied by projections from documentaries and soundtracks.

Assessment methods

- Oral examination (the Professor also offers the opportunity to present and exhibit a short-written essay on an agreed topic).

The evaluation will follow the following indications:

• Not suitable: absence or strong deficiency of the basics in the ability to read and analyse texts; incompleteness of the program studied; inability to express correctly;
• Suitable: possession of the basics; good understanding of texts; critical ability to connect between different contents, correct expression.

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

Links to further information

https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/giuseppina.brunetti/

Office hours

See the website of Giuseppina Brunetti