LATIN EPIGRAPHY (MASTER) 2015-16

Epigraphy, power, society: the Senatus consultum de Cnaeo Piso patre

The discovery in 1990 in southern Spain (Betica) of the bronze tablet on which was engraved the senatusconsultum containing the full text of the judgment of the trial against the legacy of Syria Cn. Calpurnius Piso allows you to re-read one of the most dramatic events in the history of the High Empire. Around the sudden death of Germanicus Caesar, in 19 AD, we see looming tensions in the Julio-Claudian house, the fluidity of the new Augustan regime, the eminent role of the Senate, the importance of the loyalty of the legions, the obsession of the Roman people for this deceased prince, but also the harmony between Piso and his wife Plancina. A great fresco of a changing society.

▪ Discipline: Latin epigraphy - SSD: L-ANT / 03.
▪ Study course: LETTERS (DM 270) Master of Science.
▪ Type: BASIC.
▪ Total credits: 6 = 36 teaching hours.
▪ Objectives: analysis and knowledge of the epigraph of Senatus consultum de Cn. Piso patre and its historical context.
▪ Teaching methods: lessons in the classroom.
▪ Teaching language: Italian (it is possible to arrange programs in English, French and German).
▪ Type of examination and evaluation: oral examination with final grade.
▪ SEMESTER: FIRST (November 2015 - January 2016).
▪ START CLASSES: Monday, November 16, 2015.
▪ TIME CLASSES: Mondays and Wednesdays, 14: 00-16: 00, Lecture on Ancient World Studies Department; Friday, 09: 00-11: 00, Lecture on Ancient World Studies Department.
▪ Prerequisites: requires knowledge of Latin, Roman history, also in conjunction with its course, and a frequency not occasional.
▪ Exam session: vd. calendar on the bulletin board and online.
▪ Receipt of lecturer: Wednesday at 9: 00-12: 00 (or by appointment to be fixed by mail - see. Below).
▪ Delivery of lecturer: pierfrancesco.porena@uniroma3.it.

LATIN EPIGRAPHY (MAGISTRAL)

▪ TEXTS of reference for attending students: xerocopies provided by the teacher in class.

▪ TEXTS of reference for non-attending students: they must agree on a program with the teacher.

Psychoanalysis as Philosophy: Epistemology and Philosophy of the Language in Freud's Work.

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.

Horace’s Epodes. In this course a literary setting of the liber Epodum by Horace will be offered, toghether with a reading of the latin text, an italian interpretation and a commentary, with particular care to the aspects of poetical shape and form (models, metrics, style).

- Orazio, Il libro degli Epodi, a cura di A. Cavarzere, Venezia (ed. Marsilio).
- E. Fraenkel, Horace, Clarendon Press: Chapters I (‘Vita Horati’) e II (‘The Epodes’).