"Aristocratic model, productive sectors and constraints of social representation"
The rich epigraphic heritage of the city of Rome, and of other cities of the Latin West, allows us to examine the paths of self-representation, in life and in death, of the different, stratified, heterogeneous components of a multiform urban society. In the universe of production workers, different in origin, age, category and social weight, illustrates by means of latin inscriptions the attraction of the aristocratic model, but also eccentric forms of exaltation of subordinate roles. A world suspended between dominant thought and eccentricity.

Testi:
- A. Buonopane, Manuale di epigrafia latina, Roma (Carocci) 2009 [obbligatorio];
un volume a scelta tra:
- M.L. Caldelli, F. Zevi, M. Cébeillac-Gervasoni, Epigrafia latina. Ostia: cento iscrizioni in contesto, Roma (Quasar) 2010 [328 pp. - € 28,00]: studio integrale.
- Terme di Diocleziano. La collezione epigrafica, a cura di R. Friggeri, M.G. Granino Cecere, G. Gregori, Milano (Electa) 2012 [757 pp. - € 49,00]: studio obbligatorio della Sala I + 4 Sale a scelta.
Esercitazioni:
- Visita della ‘Collezione Epigrafica’ del Museo Nazionale Romano alle Terme di Diocleziano a Roma.

N.B. Testi aggiuntivi per i non frequentanti: da concordare con il docente.
Si richiede la conoscenza della lingua latina. Si consiglia di affrontare l’esame di Epigrafia Latina dopo aver sostenuto un esame di Storia Romana.

Il Giallo modernista. Il corso si propone di ricostruire gli usi “modernisti” della forma gialla nella narrativa italiana e straniera del secondo Novecento.

TESTI NARRATIVI DA ACQUISTARE (sono da studiare anche le introduzioni):
-- Jorge Luis Borges, Finzioni, Adelphi
-- Vladimir Nabokov, La vera vita di Sebastian Knight, Adelphi
-- Carlo Emilio Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, Garzanti
-- Alain Robbe-Grillet, Il voyeur, Nonostante
-- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, La promessa. Requiem per il romanzo giallo, Einaudi (fuori commercio - da acquistare usato)
-- Luigi Malerba, Salto mortale, Mondadori
-- George Perec, La scomparsa, Guida
-- Leonardo Sciascia, Il contesto, Adelphi

FILM DA VEDERE:
-- Pietro Germi, Quel maledetto imbroglio
-- Orson Welles, Quarto potere
-- Ettore Scola, La più bella serata della mia vita
-- Francesco Rosi, Cadaveri eccellenti
-- Elio Petri, Todo modo

TESTI CRITICI DA ACQUISTARE:
-- Mauro Bersani, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Einaudi
-- Siegfried Kacauer, Il romanzo poliziesco, SE

NB. Altri saggi e testi saranno forniti in fotocopia

TESTI IN PIU’ PER I NON FREQUENTANTI:
-- Marco Belpoliti, Settanta, Einaudi, 2010 (nuova edizione ampliata)

N.B. Prima di ogni lezione verranno prese le presenze. Il numero massimo di assenze accettate è 6 ore (3 lezioni). Sopra questo numero gli studenti saranno considerati a tutti gli effetti non frequentanti e dovranno portare un libro in più.

Module A
Reading of the Preface and Introduction to the Critique of Judgment and Analytic of the Beautiful.

Module B
Reading of the Analytic of the Sublime, the Deduction of the Pure Aesthetic Judgements and the Dialectic of Aesthetic Judgment.

Module A
Immanuel Kant, Critica del Giudizio, Roma-Bari, Laterza: Prefazione, Introduzione, §§ 1-22
Module B
Immanuel Kant, Critica del Giudizio, Roma-Bari, Laterza, §§ 23-60

English Version
Instructor: Richard Ambrosini
Subject: Letteratura inglese I magistrale
CFU: 6
Semester: I & II

Wednesday 11:-13:00 (Aula 21)
Thursday 11:00-13:00 (Aula 3)
First Class: Wednesday October 7, 2015


Objectives:
Students are expected to acquire the advanced skills required to analyze complex texts and the literary phenomena of the Anglophone world viewed in a transcultural context, also in relation to translation and the teaching of literature. They are also expected to refine their ability to employ in a problematic manner the sophisticated theoretical tools which will enable them to engage in a culturalist and linguistic analysis of texts and cultural phenomena, as well as in the analysis of the interrelations between literary language and other narrative forms.

Programme

The course will set out by attempting an historical and cultural synthesis of the different strands that went into the making of British Modernism, which was at the same time a transnational phenomenon and a crucial passage in the history of English literature. The study of some of the major Modernist poets’ and novelists’ main texts will serve the purpose of casting light on the theoretical significance of the formal and stylistic experimentations that went into their making. This way, it will become possible to then understand the role those theories played once an institutionalized version of ‘Modernism’ became the foundation of the academic teaching of English literature.

Prescribed reading

Essays
Henry James, “The Art of Fiction” (1884) R. L. Stevenson, “A Humble Remonstrance” (1884)
Joseph Conrad, “Preface” to The Nigger of the “Narcissus” (1897), selection from his letters
T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919), “Ulysses, Order and Myth” (1923)
D. H. Lawrence, “Surgery for the Novel – or, a Bomb” (1923)
Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction” (1919), “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1923)
E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel (1927) [Extracts]

Fiction

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)
D. H. Lawrence, “Odour of Chrysanthemums” (1911)
James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)

Poems
Thomas Hardy, Selection from Poems of 1912-13
W. B. Yeats, “Easter, 1916” (1916), “The Wild Swans at Coole” (1917), “Sailing to Byzantium” (1928)
T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), The Waste Land (1922)
Ezra Pound, “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste” (1913), “In a Station of the Metro” (1913), “Homage to Sextus Propertius” (1919)


Reading List
Students are required to study on their own one of the following novels:

D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (1913)
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)

Criticism and Historical Background

A list of secondary texts will be available in early October.

The course will be held in English.

Students who do not plan to attend classes should come and speak to the instructor during his office hours (Tuesday, 14:30-16:30)

Essays
Henry James, “The Art of Fiction” (1884) R. L. Stevenson, “A Humble Remonstrance” (1884)
Joseph Conrad, “Preface” to The Nigger of the “Narcissus” (1897), e una selezione dall’epistolario
T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919), “Ulysses, Order and Myth” (1923)
D. H. Lawrence, “Surgery for the Novel – or, a Bomb” (1923)
Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction” (1919), “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1923)
E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel (1927) [Estratti]

Fiction
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)
D. H. Lawrence, “Odour of Chrysanthemums” (1911)
James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)

Poems
Thomas Hardy, una scelta di poesie tratte dalla raccolta Poems of 1912-13
W. B. Yeats, “Easter, 1916” (1916), “The Wild Swans at Coole” (1917), “Sailing to Byzantium” (1928)
T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), The Waste Land (1922)
Ezra Pound, “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste” (1913), “In a Station of the Metro” (1913), “Homage to Sextus Propertius” (1919)

Reading List

E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910)
D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (1913)

History and art of the actor
(L-ART/05) credits 6 - Teacher: Stefano Geraci
Learning objectives: The course introduces the study of the actor in the European theatrical culture from the modern age to the twentieth century.
Programme. The art and the practices of the actors will be analyzed through the traces, the memories, the visual documents and their relationships with the life of the theaters.
TEXT BOOKS: Lecture notes edited by the teacher, (available at the beginning of the course on the site https://sites.google.com/com/site/stefanogeraci1);L. Jouvet, Lezioni su Molière, a cura di S.Geraci, Officina Edizioni, 2015 ; The non-attending students must add to the program one of the following books : Copeau, Artigiani di una tradizione vivente: l’attore e la pedagogia teatrale; a cura di Maria Ines Aliverti, La casa Usher, 2009; C. Dullin, La ricerca degli dei. Pedagogia di attore e professione di teatro, a cura di D. Seragnoli, ETS, 2005.
Oral examination 
E-MAIL geraci@uniroma3.it
LESSONS: semester II


I

TEXT BOOKS: Lectures notes edit by the teacher; (available at the beginning of the course on the site https://sites.google.com/com/site/stefanogeraci1) S.E Ėjzenštejn, Stili di regia, Venezia Marsilio,1987 e succ.ed.; Text books for the non-attending students :  Lecture notes edited by the teacher:, P. Szondi, Teoria del dramma moderno,Torino, Einaudi,1962 e succ.ed.; B. Brecht, Scritti teatrali, Torino, Einaudi,1962 e succ ed.; S.E.Ėjzenštejn ,Stili di regia, Venezia Marsilio,1987 e succ.ed , Venezia , Marsilio, 1988 e succ. ed.

Close reading of the "Vita nova" by Dante Alighieri.
The aim of this course is to provide students with specialised instruments for a close reading of medieval Italian texts in their linguistic and stylistic features, and with regard to critique of source, reconstruction of their cultural context, and analysis of tradition. A majority of lectures will be devoted to a close reading and commentary of Dante's text, and to the analysis of its main interpretative problems. Attention will be paid to the reception of this text and to its manuscript tradition.

Bibliography:
- Dante ALIGHIERI, Vita nova, a cura di Stefano Carrai, Milano, BUR - Rizzoli, 2009
- notes from lectures

NB: students not attending lectures will integrate their reading of Carrai's edition with:
Dante ALIGHIERI, Vita nuova, a cura di Donato Pirovano, in Nuova edizione commentata delle opere di Dante, I. Vita nuova - Rime, tomo I, a cura di Donato Pirovano e Marco Grimaldi, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2015, pp. 1-289

Critical bibliography:
- Saverio BELLOMO, Filologia e critica dantesca, nuova ed. ampliata e corretta, Brescia, Editrice La Scuola, 2012, pp. 55-89
- Stefano CARRAI, Dante elegiaco. Una chiave di lettura per la «Vita nova», Firenze, Olschki, 2006, pp. 43-75 (cap. «La testura di un racconto artefatto»)
- Enrico FENZI, Il libro della memoria, in Dante in lettura. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi (Foggia, 28-29 marzo 2003), a cura di G. De Matteis, Ravenna, Longo, 2005, pp. 15-38
- Guglielmo GORNI, La Beatrice di Dante, dal tempo all’eterno, in Dante ALIGHIERI, Vita Nova, a cura di Luca Carlo Rossi, Milano, Mondadori, 1999, pp. V–LX

For an introduction to Dante's Life and works, see "Filologia e critica dantesca" by Saverio Bellomo, and Giorgio INGLESE, Vita di Dante. Una biografia possibile, Roma, Carocci, 2015.

Italian Renaissance literature. Love treatises between two centuries: from Ficino to Bembo. The course intends to examine in depth the themes at the center of the interest of amorous treatise between the last years of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, which saw the publication of the Commentarium in Convivium Platonis de Amore (1484) by Ficino and the composition and publication of the Asolani di Bembo (1497-1505). A comparison between the two texts and a close analysis of the latter and its stylistic, formal and philosophical assumptions will be proposed.

- P. Bembo, Gli Asolani, (sarà reso disponibile on line il testo secondo l’edizione Dilemmi).
- C. Dionisotti, Introduzione, in P. Bembo, Prose e rime, Torino, UTET, 1960, pp. 9-60.
- L. Marcozzi, Pietro Bembo, Firenze, Cesati, 2016.
- C. Berra, La scrittura degli ‘Asolani’, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1996.
- S. Gentile, “Commentarium in Convivium de amore / El libro dell’Amore” di Marsilio Ficino, in Letteratura italiana. Le opere, I, Dalle Origini al Cinquecento, Einaudi, Torino 1992, pp. 743-767.

Seneca and the Power: the two faces of an intellectual between commitment and compromise. In the course an historical and literary setting of Seneca's Apokolokyntosis and Consolatio ad Polybium will be offered, toghether with a close reading of the latin text, an italian interpretation and a full commentary, with particular care to the aspects of literary shape and style.

- As for the Apokolokyntosis, an edition as preferred among: Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokolokyntosis, a cura di G. Vannini, Milano (Mondadori), Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokokyntosis, introduzione, traduzione e note a cura di R. Mugellesi, Milani (Rizzoli) e Lucio Anneo Seneca, Apokokyntosis, a cura di G. Focardi, Firenze (Giunti).
- As for the Consolation ad Polybium: Lucio Anneo Seneca, Le consolazioni: a Marcia, alla madre Helvia, a Polibio, introduzione, traduzione e note di A. Traina, Milano (Rizzoli).