- 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
Language, Society and Communication (cod. 8874)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 0983)
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from Nov 14, 2022 to Nov 30, 2022
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from Dec 01, 2022 to Dec 19, 2022
Learning outcomes
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 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, 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.
Programme:
Week 1 : Introduction to WL
Week 2 : How do independent librarians choose their books?
Week 3: How to make a proposal to a publishing house
Week 4: What is a series?
Week 5: How to create a radio broadcasting.
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, and the media in general.
Assessment methods
At the end of 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.
Teaching tools
Multimedial tools
Office hours
See the website of Silvia Albertazzi
See the website of Maria Chiara Gnocchi