Teacher
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FORTINI LAURA
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Title of the course: Writing letters Beyond genres: from private writing to epistolary novel
Description of the course: Between private and public, between the intimate and the literary, epistulary writing has always had features that sets it beyond the conventional literary genres, in works of writers both men and women. The course aims to retrace the critical debate about epistolography through significant cases, with a special care in the study of the Sixteenth century, when the epistolary book in modern sense was created, and of the Twentieth century, when it changes its features and way of expression.
(reference books)
Bibliography:
- Maria Luisa Doglio, Lettera e donna. Scrittura epistolare al femminile tra Quattro e Cinquecento, Roma, Bulzoni, 1993 - Laura Fortini, Giuseppe Izzi, Concetta Ranieri (a cura di), Scrivere lettere nel Cinquecento. Corrispondenze in prosa e in versi, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2016 (single essays in pdf are available for download on the web site of the publishing company)
Students are required to choose one of the following Fifteenth-Sixteenth century epistolary collection (in agrrement with the teacher) and a Twentieth century epistolary work among the followings, in any edition provided that is it complete. - Alba de Céspedes, Il rimorso, Milano, Mondadori, 1963 - Gianfranco Contini-Carlo Emilio Gadda, Carteggio 1934-1963, Milano, Garzanti, 2009 - Antonio Gramsci, Lettere dal carcere, Torino, Einaudi, 1948. - Gianna Manzini, Lettera all'Editore, Firenze, Sansoni, 1945, Palermo, Sellerio, 1993 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lettere luterane, Torino, Einaudi, 1976 - Goliarda Sapienza, Lettera aperta, Milano, Garzanti, 1967
Further material will be available online on the teacher's page (bit.ly/dsu-fortini) and provided (when possible) in pdf of similar formats during the course.
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