- Docente: Melinda Pirazzoli
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-OR/21
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Asian Languages, Markets and Cultures (cod. 0980)
Course contents
The first part of the course will focus on the Shijing. We shall study "The Great Preface" and we shall read many poems from the "Book of Songs". We shall understand the basic concepts of "qing" 情 e "jing" 景. We shall enjoy the
While students will learn
While readings excerpts from Zhuangzi, we shall read about the "happiness of the fish", the "dream of the butterfly" and the "usefulness of the useless" and, finally of the principle of
Then we shall deal with commentaries such as the Zuozhuan 左传and the Zhanguo
We shall then move on to the Chinese middle ages. We shall read important
We shall devote at
The second part of the course will begin by focusing on Ou Yangxiu 欧阳修 e Su Shi 苏轼. We shall also briefly mentions the evolution of the Chinese drama during the Song and Yuan dynasties.
We shall spend the last three weeks focusing on Ming and Qing fiction. All students are required to read Cao Xueqin's The Dream of the Red Chamber and excerpts from the Three Kingdoms, Outlaws of the Marsh, the Jin Ping
Readings/Bibliography
Owen, Stephen: An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 (Norton, 1996)
Pirazzoli, Melinda: Intenti poetici (Ananke, 2016)
Baccini, Giulia, I Sette Savi del Bosco di bambù: modelli di letterati eccentrici nella Cina antica, Letteratura Universale Marsilio: la Fenice (monografia), 2016
Bisetto, Barbara, Il laccio scarlatto, Venezia, Marsilio, 2011
Cao. Xueqin, Il sogno della camera rossa, (Masi Edoarda, a cura di),(Milano: BUR, 2013)
Teaching methods
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Office hours
See the website of Melinda Pirazzoli