- Docente: Daniela Branca
- Credits: 12
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)
Course contents
Title of the course: Renaissance and folktale : at the boundaries of the literary system
The two parts of the course (related but indipendent) have each an introduction devoted to the theory of european folktale (Propp and Jolles). Then there will be an analysis of texts from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. In the first part the texts concern the elements of the folktale in the “novella” starting with the prominent pattern of the Decameron and going to its humanistic interpretation by Petrarch, to the religious theater, the pseudo-historical novel, the sixteenth century entertainment prose.The texts of the second part concern the folktale in the short fourteenth- fifteenth century poems called “cantari”, and in the most important chivalric poems of italian Renaissance ( Boiardo and Ariosto). In both sections of the course, the analysis of texts is supported by selected and specific bibliography.
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