Università Roma Tre

The thematic criticism (thematology), in its various declinations, will initially be framed in the development of twentieth-century literary theory, starting from the identification of the minimum unit of the "motif" in the field of Russian formalism, through the European philological tradition of studies on literary topoi, until the archetypal criticism of Jungian origin and its evolution in the Anglo-Saxon sphere. The second part of the course will be dedicated to a case study, in particular to the modern and postmodern fortune of a topos of classical and Renaissance derivation, in contemporary fiction and cinematography.