30659 - Finnish Literature 2 (2nd cycle)

Academic Year 2010/2011

  • Docente: Carla Corradi
  • Credits: 9
  • SSD: L-LIN/19
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)

Course contents

Baltic Finns (Finns, Karelians, Estonians).

We will study the Baltic Finns  from a comparative viewpoint and we will underline those aspects which mainly characterize their culture, in relation to that of the other Finno-Ugrians too.

We will consider their history, popular traditions, mythology and written and oral literature.

A particular examination will be made of the archaic elements of the ancient world view in popular literature.

An analysis will be made of the forms of melancholy in the literature.

 

Readings/Bibliography

C. CORRADI MUSI, Lingue e popoli ugrici, Parma, Palatina, 1980.

C. CORRADI MUSI, I Finni, Parma, Palatina, 1983.

C. CORRADI MUSI, I Lapponi, Parma, Palatina, 1985.

C. CORRADI MUSI, I Baltofinni del Sud-Est, Parma, Palatina, 1990.

C. CORRADI MUSI, Sciamanesimo in Eurasia. Dal mito alla tradizione, Roma, Aracne, 2008.

C. CORRADI MUSI (edit. by), Simboli e miti della tradizione sciamanica, Bologna, Carattere, 2007.

E. LÖNNROT, Kalevala, Keuruu, Otavan Kirjapaino Oy, 2009.

E.-L. MANNER,  Kirkas, hämärä, kirkas. Kootut runot, Helsinki, Tammi, 2008.

 

The reading of the following texts will be required:

C. CORRADI MUSI (edit. by),  Lo sciamano e il suo 'doppio', Bologna, Carattere, 2007.

ZS. ROZSNYÓI (edit. by), Re Barbaverde. Favole popolari ungheresi, Ferrara, Tosi, 2000.

 

 



 

 

Teaching methods

Direct lessons

Assessment methods

There will be an oral examination on the arguments of the course.

Teaching tools

Audiovisual support will be used.

Office hours

See the website of Carla Corradi