08846 - Comparative Literatures

Learning outcomes

Course contents

TOPIC

Rewriting practices in the contemporary cultural environment: prequels, sequels, expansions, contaminations, counternarrations.

Timing of the course: second semester (February-May 2018)

Readings/Bibliography

1.Literary texts

► J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice

► Ch. Brontë, Jane Eyre

► J. Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

► Jo Baker, Longbourn

 ► P.D. James, Death Comes to Pemberley

2. Critical texts

► Gérard Genette, Palinsesti. La letteratura al secondo grado, Torino, Einaudi (solo i capitoli XLVI- LXXV, pp. 273-442).

► Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation

Teaching methods

Assessment methods

Evaluation methods

 

The abilities acquired during the course will be evaluated through an oral test aimed at ascertaining a deep knowledge of all the topics covered during the course. The oral test consists in an interview aimed at evaluating the students' critical and methodological skills. Students will be invited to discuss the texts in the reading list and comment on them. Therefore students must demonstrate an appropriate knowledge of the recommended reading list.

Students who are able to demonstrate a wide and systematic understanding of the issues covered during the course, to tackle them critically, and who master the critical jargon of the discipline will be given a mark of excellence. Students who demonstrate a mere mnemonic knowledge of the subject together with a more superficial analytical ability to synthesize, a correct command of the critical jargon but not always appropriate, will be given a ‘fair' mark. A superficial knowledge and understanding of the course topics, a scarce analytical and expressive ability will be rewarded with a pass mark or just above a pass mark. Students who demonstrate gaps in their knowledge of the main topics, inappropriate language skills, lack of familiarity with the syllabus reading list will not be given a pass mark.

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