Translation theory and practice of literary texts from French to Italian

A.Berman, La traduction et la lettre, ou L’auberge du lointain, Paris, Seuil, 1999
U. Eco, Dire quasi la stessa cosa, Milano, Bompiani, 2013
M. Fumaroli, « Le génie de la langue française », in Trois institutions littéraires, Paris, Folio, 1995

English as an International Language: Methodological and Didactic Issues is one of the characterizing modules of the programme. The course provides basic knowledge about the phenomena that have allowed the emergence of variant forms of English among native speakers, among the populations of the former British colonies, and finally among other international communities of speakers. The student is expected to develop a deeper awareness of the multifaceted nature of English as an international language, while using this language as a tool for work and metalinguistic reflection. Specific methodological skills related to the pedagogical implications of Global Englishes in the field of English language teaching will also be provided, including a critical reflection on the role of the teacher, the purpose of activity design, and different learning styles.
The student is expected to be able to: develop lesson plans for the teaching of English in an international context; communicate in written and oral form at an advanced level, including the acquisition of socio-cultural competence.

1. Nicola Galloway and Heath Rose, Introducing Global Englishes, London: Routledge, 2015. ISBN 978-0-415-83532-9

2. Additional materials will be provided during the course.

The course consists of the examination of vocabulary and stylistics of modern Russian literary texts in connection with the problems of Russian-Italian translation.
a/ review of the grammatical system
b/ vocabulary and stylistic analysis of modern Russian literary texts

Materials for analysis are provided during the course.
Daniela Bonciani. Bliže k Rossii. M. 2004
Laskareva E. Čistaja grammatika. Spb. 2017

Baudelaire, « cet étrange classique des choses qui ne sont pas classiques ».

Charles Baudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris, présentation, notes, dossier, chronologie, bibliographie par Aurélia Cervoni et Andrea Schellino, Paris, Flammarion, coll. GF, 2017.

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal, présentation, notes, chronologie de Jacques Dupont, dossier, bibliographie d’Aurélia Cervoni et Andrea Schellino, Paris, Flammarion, coll. GF, 2019.

Charles Baudelaire, Les Paradis artificiels, présentation, notes, dossier, chronologie, bibliographie par Aurélia Cervoni et Andrea Schellino, Paris, Flammarion, coll. GF, 2021.


Rémi Brague, Image vagabonde. Essai sur l’imaginaire baudelairien, Paris, Les Éditions de la transparence, 2008.

Antoine Compagnon, Baudelaire, l’irréductible, Paris, Flammarion, 2014.

Henri Scepi, Baudelaire et le nuage, Genève, La Baconnière, coll. Nouvelle collection langages, 2022.

Andrea Schellino, « Baudelaire condamné », Cahiers de littérature française, no 16: Adjectif Baudelaire, 2017, p. 93-108.



Additional text for non-attending students:

Patrick Labarthe, Baudelaire et la tradition de l’allégorie, Genève, Droz, 2015.

The module proposes the analysis of HeinrMüllers Works with a special focus on his idea and practice of theater, but also on his theory of media.

Heiner Müller, Werke, voll. 1-6, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. M. 2000-2018.

An overview of some key issues in second language learning and teaching research, with particular reference to the way in which teaching can facilitate and speed up the natural process of language acquisition.
Focus. The characteristics of Task-based language teaching, aimed to harmonise teaching programme and learners' internal syllabus, will be discussed in detail.

1) Van Patten B., Smith M., Benati A., Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition, Cambridge University Press, 2020.

2) Cortés Velásquez D. & Nuzzo E. (a cura di), Il task nell’insegnamento delle lingue. Percorsi tra ricerca e didattica al CLA di Roma Tre, RomaTrE-Press, Roma, 2018 (papers by Cortés Velásquez e Nuzzo; Borro).

3) Malicka et al. (2019). From needs analysis to task design: Insights from an English for specific purposes context. Language Teaching Research, 23(1), pp. 78-106.

- Speech Acts theory. Locution, illocution, perlocution.
- The Cooperation Principle and the theory of conversational
implicatures. Relevance theory.
- The linguistic and extralinguistic context. Ambiguity.
- The context. Deixis and Anaphora.
- Face and Politeness.
- Culture and Language. Linguistics, anthropology, ethnography.
- Linguistic presuppositions: existence presupposition, truth
presupposition.
- Pragmatic presuppositions: felicity condicions.
- Information Structure of the Utterance: Given and New, Theme
and Rheme, Fore- and Background.

1) Bianchi, Claudia. (2003). Pragmatica del linguaggio. Roma-Bari, Laterza.

2) Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo. (2009). La struttura informativa. Forma e funzione negli enunciati linguistici. Roma, Carocci.

- Speech Acts theory. Locution, illocution, perlocution.
- The Cooperation Principle and the theory of conversational implicatures. Relevance theory.
- The linguistic and extralinguistic context. Ambiguity.
- The context. Deixis and Anaphora.
- Face and Politeness.
- Culture and Language. Linguistics, anthropology, ethnography.
- Linguistic presuppositions: existence presupposition, truth presupposition.
- Pragmatic presuppositions: felicity condicions.
- Information Structure of the Utterance: Given and New, Theme and Rheme, Fore- and Background.
- Strategies of persuasion: the language of advertising and propaganda.

- Cecilia Andorno, Che cos'è la pragmatica linguistica. Roma, Carocci, 2005.
- Lombardi Vallauri, E. La struttura informativa. Forma e funzione negli enunciati linguistici, Roma, Carocci, 2009.
- Lombardi Vallauri, E. La lingua disonesta. Bologna, il Mulino, 2019.

Translation theory and practice of literary texts from French to Italian

A.Berman, La traduction et la lettre, ou L’auberge du lointain, Paris, Seuil, 1999
U. Eco, Dire quasi la stessa cosa, Milano, Bompiani, 2013
M. Fumaroli, « Le génie de la langue française », in Trois institutions littéraires, Paris, Folio, 1995

English as an International Language: Methodological and Didactic Issues is one of the characterizing modules of the programme. The course provides basic knowledge about the phenomena that have allowed the emergence of variant forms of English among native speakers, among the populations of the former British colonies, and finally among other international communities of speakers. The student is expected to develop a deeper awareness of the multifaceted nature of English as an international language, while using this language as a tool for work and metalinguistic reflection. Specific methodological skills related to the pedagogical implications of Global Englishes in the field of English language teaching will also be provided, including a critical reflection on the role of the teacher, the purpose of activity design, and different learning styles.
The student is expected to be able to: develop lesson plans for the teaching of English in an international context; communicate in written and oral form at an advanced level, including the acquisition of socio-cultural competence.

1. Nicola Galloway and Heath Rose, Introducing Global Englishes, London: Routledge, 2015. ISBN 978-0-415-83532-9

2. Additional materials will be provided during the course.

Baudelaire, « cet étrange classique des choses qui ne sont pas classiques ».

Charles Baudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris, présentation, notes, dossier, chronologie, bibliographie par Aurélia Cervoni et Andrea Schellino, Paris, Flammarion, coll. GF, 2017.

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal, présentation, notes, chronologie de Jacques Dupont, dossier, bibliographie d’Aurélia Cervoni et Andrea Schellino, Paris, Flammarion, coll. GF, 2019.

Charles Baudelaire, Les Paradis artificiels, présentation, notes, dossier, chronologie, bibliographie par Aurélia Cervoni et Andrea Schellino, Paris, Flammarion, coll. GF, 2021.


Rémi Brague, Image vagabonde. Essai sur l’imaginaire baudelairien, Paris, Les Éditions de la transparence, 2008.

Antoine Compagnon, Baudelaire, l’irréductible, Paris, Flammarion, 2014.

Henri Scepi, Baudelaire et le nuage, Genève, La Baconnière, coll. Nouvelle collection langages, 2022.

Andrea Schellino, « Baudelaire condamné », Cahiers de littérature française, no 16: Adjectif Baudelaire, 2017, p. 93-108.



Additional text for non-attending students:

Patrick Labarthe, Baudelaire et la tradition de l’allégorie, Genève, Droz, 2015.

The module proposes the analysis of HeinrMüllers Works with a special focus on his idea and practice of theater, but also on his theory of media.

Heiner Müller, Werke, voll. 1-6, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. M. 2000-2018.

After Eating the Forbidden Fruit: How the poets of the Germanic Middle Ages interpret the Fall of Man.


The course will analyze from an interdisciplinary perspective the different ways in which various authors of the English and German Middle Ages dealt with the complex theme of temptation and its consequences. Works (including the poetic rewriting of Genesis from the Anglo-Saxon period, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Langland's Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Otfrid von Weissenburg's Liber Evangeliorum, Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan) will be examined from a literary, philological and linguistic perspective, with particular attention to such problems as the identification of sources and recurring motifs, inter-textual relations, the relationship between word and image, and the allegorical and metaphorical aspects of the Garden of Eden. The analysis of the texts will enable students to gain insight into some features of the linguistic evolution of English and German, and to face topics of textual criticism. Students will carry out individual and group research that will be presented and discussed during seminars..

Texts.
A selection of chapters from the following texts:

- B. Smalley, Lo studio della Bibbia nel Medioevo, Bologna: Il Mulino 1972.
- N. Frye, Il grande codice. La Bibbia e le letterature, Torino: Einaudi 1986

- A. M. Luiselli Fadda, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel medioevo germanico, Roma-Bari: Laterza 2004 (Parte II).

- D. Wallace, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002 .
- D. Kartschoke, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im hohen Mittelalter, München: DTV 1990.

- D. Crystal, The Stories of English, Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2004.

- P. von Polenz, Geschichte der deutschen Sprache, Berlin: De Gruyter 2009.
Additional bibliographical material (critical editions, glossaries, critical essays etc.) will be provided by the teacher at the beginning of the course.

The course will reconstruct the historical evolution of cartography, retracing the modes of representation from antiquity to the eighteenth-century geodetic revolution, up to the creation of the Military Geographic Institute. Particular emphasis will be given to the deconstruction of geocartographic materials, to their use in geo-historical research for the study of landscape transformations.

Attending students:
- The exam will focus on the topics covered in class, on slides in ppt and supplementary learning material provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
- E. Boria, Storia della cartografia in Italia dall’Unità a oggi. Tra scienza, società e progetti di potere, Milano, Utet, 2020 (pp.XI-299)

The course consists of the examination of vocabulary and stylistics of modern Russian literary texts in connection with the problems of Russian-Italian translation.
a/ review of the grammatical system
b/ vocabulary and stylistic analysis of modern Russian literary texts

Materials for analysis are provided during the course.
Daniela Bonciani. Bliže k Rossii. M. 2004
Laskareva E. Čistaja grammatika. Spb. 2017

An overview of some key issues in second language learning and teaching research, with particular reference to the way in which teaching can facilitate and speed up the natural process of language acquisition.
Focus. The characteristics of Task-based language teaching, aimed to harmonise teaching programme and learners' internal syllabus, will be discussed in detail.

1) Van Patten B., Smith M., Benati A., Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition, Cambridge University Press, 2020.

2) Cortés Velásquez D. & Nuzzo E. (a cura di), Il task nell’insegnamento delle lingue. Percorsi tra ricerca e didattica al CLA di Roma Tre, RomaTrE-Press, Roma, 2018 (papers by Cortés Velásquez e Nuzzo; Borro).

3) Malicka et al. (2019). From needs analysis to task design: Insights from an English for specific purposes context. Language Teaching Research, 23(1), pp. 78-106.

- Speech Acts theory. Locution, illocution, perlocution.
- The Cooperation Principle and the theory of conversational
implicatures. Relevance theory.
- The linguistic and extralinguistic context. Ambiguity.
- The context. Deixis and Anaphora.
- Face and Politeness.
- Culture and Language. Linguistics, anthropology, ethnography.
- Linguistic presuppositions: existence presupposition, truth
presupposition.
- Pragmatic presuppositions: felicity condicions.
- Information Structure of the Utterance: Given and New, Theme
and Rheme, Fore- and Background.

1) Bianchi, Claudia. (2003). Pragmatica del linguaggio. Roma-Bari, Laterza.

2) Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo. (2009). La struttura informativa. Forma e funzione negli enunciati linguistici. Roma, Carocci.

- Speech Acts theory. Locution, illocution, perlocution.
- The Cooperation Principle and the theory of conversational implicatures. Relevance theory.
- The linguistic and extralinguistic context. Ambiguity.
- The context. Deixis and Anaphora.
- Face and Politeness.
- Culture and Language. Linguistics, anthropology, ethnography.
- Linguistic presuppositions: existence presupposition, truth presupposition.
- Pragmatic presuppositions: felicity condicions.
- Information Structure of the Utterance: Given and New, Theme and Rheme, Fore- and Background.
- Strategies of persuasion: the language of advertising and propaganda.

- Cecilia Andorno, Che cos'è la pragmatica linguistica. Roma, Carocci, 2005.
- Lombardi Vallauri, E. La struttura informativa. Forma e funzione negli enunciati linguistici, Roma, Carocci, 2009.
- Lombardi Vallauri, E. La lingua disonesta. Bologna, il Mulino, 2019.

Renaissance theater: from classical authors to modern Italian playwrights.

Bibliography:

Required Text Books (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8)
1. Primary Works: P. Aretino, Cortigiana (1525), any editions (edition by G. Innamorati is available online);
2. Primary Works: B. Dovizi detto il Bibbiena, La Calandra, edited by G. Padoan, Padova, Antenore, 1985 (this edition is available online);
3. Primary Works: N. Machiavelli, La Mandragola, edited by P. Stoppelli, Milan, Mondadori, 2006;
4. Criticism: Il teatro a Roma prima della Cortigiana (1525) di Pietro Aretino, edited by G. Crimi, Rome, Roma nel Rinascimento, 2020;
5. Criticism: *G. Aquilecchia, La favola “Mandragola” si chiama (1971), in Id., Schede di italianistica, Torino, Einaudi, 1976, pp. 97-126;;
6. Criticism: *R. Guarino, Feste e spettacoli a Roma nel primo Rinascimento. Tradizioni, spazi, poteri, in Roma 1347-1527. Linee di un’evoluzione. Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi (Roma, 13-15 novembre 2017), a cura di M. Miglio e I. Lori Sanfilippo, Roma, Istituto storico italiano per il Medioevo, 2020, pp. 129-41;
7. Criticism: *A. Guidotti, Il doppio gioco della Calandria, in «Modern Language Notes», 104 (1989), 1, pp. 98-116;
8. Criticism: *M. Pieri, Il montaggio della commedia nel laboratorio romano, in Leone X. Finanza, mecenatismo, cultura. Atti del Convegno internazionale (Roma, 2-4 novembre 2015), 2 tt., edited by F. Cantatore et alii, Rome, Roma nel Rinascimento, 2016, I, pp. 145-66;

Items 5, 6, 7 and 8 will be provided by the teacher.

Additional readings for non-attending students:

9. Criticism: C. Falletti Cruciani, Il Teatro in Italia. II. Il Cinquecento e Seicento, Rome, Edizioni Studium, 1999 e 2003, pp. 13-190.

During the course, structured in seminar form, Giorgio Caproni's lyrics will be examined.

- Caproni "Package"
1. Giorgio Caproni, Antologia personale, edited by Stefano Verdino, Garzanti, Milan 2017 (or subsequent editions).
2. Adele Dei, L'orma della parola. Su Giorgio Caproni, Esedra, Padova 2016.

- Moravia "Package"
1. Alberto Moravia, Gli indifferenti, Bompiani, Milan or Mondadori, Milan.
2. Alberto Moravia, Agostino, Bompiani, Milan.
3. Luca Chiurchiù, Primavera d'incertezza. Mito e malattia della giovinezza in Federigo Tozzi, Alberto Moravia, Vitaliano Brancati, EUM, Macerata 2020, chapters one and three.

- Brancati's "Package"
1. Vitaliano Brancati, Don Giovanni in Sicilia, Mondadori, Milan 2002 (or later editions).
2. Vitaliano Brancati, Il bell'Antonio, with a note by Leonardo Sciascia, Mondadori, Milan 2001 (or later editions).
3. Marco Dondero, Il gallo non ha cantato. Vitaliano Brancati, il fascismo, Il bell'Antonio, Carocci, Rome 2021.

- Sciascia "Package"
1. Leonardo Sciascia, Il giorno della civetta, Adelphi, Milan (or other editions).
2. Leonardo Sciascia, Una storia semplice, Adelphi, Milan (or other editions).
3. Massimo Onofri, Storia di Sciascia, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2004, or Inschibboleth, Roma 2021.

Attending students: Caproni "package".
Non-attending students: Caproni "package" plus a "package" to be chosen among Moravia, Brancati, Sciascia.

The aim of the course is to explore, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the relationship between Ungaretti and the European literature. The analysis of his intellectual function, will be done on the poetry but also on literary criticism, essays, teaching activities, correspondence and collaborations with magazines and newspapers.
The course will have a seminary structure and the lessons will be organized so as to facilitate the discussion.

Exam book:

M. Venturini, Il terzo tempo. Sull'Ungaretti intellettuale negli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta, Bulzoni (in corso di stampa)

The course aims to analyse and to translate Hispanic essayistic prose. Guided by the teacher, students will learn techniques of the expositive and argumentative writings in Spanish and translation’s strategies and they will focus primarily on the strategies and thinking of Ortega y Gasset.

1) Manuali e saggi
Montolío, Estrella, Manual de escritura académica y profesional, I. Estrategias gramaticales, II. Estrategias discursivas, Barcelona, Ariel, 2014. Disponible edizione ebook della versione in due volumi.
Vicente Cervera, Belén Hernández - Mª Dolores Adsuar (eds.), El ensayo como género literario, Murcia, Universidad, 2005 (articoli di Pedro Aullón de Haro, Elena Arenas Cruz, José María Pozuelo Yvancos). Disponibile online: https://libros.um.es/editum/catalog/book/971
Gracia, Jordi – Ródenas de Moya, Domingo, Pensar por ensayos en la España del siglo XX, Barcelona, UAB, 2015, pp. 31-151.
Juliá, Santos, «Penetrar, educar y conducir a la masa: la intelectualidad como minoría selecta», in Historias de las dos Españas, Madrid, Taurus, 2015, pp. 139-188.
Eventuali altre indicazioni bibliografiche verranno fornite agli studenti nel corso delle lezioni.

2) Testi
Ortega y Gasset, José, Meditaciones del Quijote, ed. Julián Marías, Madrid, Cátedra, 2012.
Ortega y Gasset, España invertebrada y otros ensayos, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2014.
Zambrano, María, Pensamiento y poesía en la vida española, ed. Mercedes Gómez Blesa, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2004.
Marías, Julián, España inteligible. Razón histórica de las Españas, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2020.
Paz, Octavio, Tiempo nublado, Barcelona, Planeta, 1995.

Additional mandatory material for students who have failed their final tests (written essay and oral presentation) and for non-attending students.
Ortega y Gasset, La rebelión de las masas y otros ensayos, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2014.
Alcaide Lara, Esperanza R., La argumentación lingüística y sus medios de expresión, Madrid, Arco Libros, 2010.

The course aims to analyse the textual and linguistic characteristics of web-mediated hybrid textual genres for scientific or semi-scientific (semi-)popularisation and to provide students with adequate tools to be able to subtitle high and medium specialised audiovisual texts (technical-translational competence) and to critically reflect on the PB LSP, especially the monitored academic speech variety.
By the end of the course, students will have refined their linguistic-communicative skills in the two varieties (PE and PB).
These knowledge and skills will be acquired through regular participation in lectures and other supplementary teaching activities.

Cortelazzo, M. 1994, Lingue speciali, Unipress, Padova.
De Rosa GL e Morleo F. in corso di stampa, Os Marcadores Discursivos no Discurso Especializado.
De Rosa GL 2020, O Discurso Científico mediado pela web. Legendar videoverbetes entre tipologias textuais, línguas especiais e problemáticas tradutórias, Lingue Linguaggi, pp. 29-45, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22381/18823.
De Rosa GL 2020, Características da fala acadêmica monitorada no Brasil: os videoverbetes da ENCIDIS entre PB técnico-científico e PB neo-standard, Cultura Latinoamerica, Universidad Católica de Bogotá.
Gualdo, R e Telve S. 2012, Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Carocci, Roma.
Gotti M. 1991, I Linguaggi Specialistici. Caratteristiche linguistiche e criteri pragmatici, La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
Mariani B. 2018, Linguagem, conhecimento e tecnologia: a Enciclopédia Audiovisual da Análise do Discurso e áreas afins, in “Linguagem & Ensino” v.21, n. esp., VIII SENALE, pp. 359-393.
Mariani B 2020, La produzione e la circolazione del sapere su piattaforme digitali: lo status del portoghese brasiliano in un’enciclopedia digitale sottotitolata, Lingue Linguaggi (2020), pp. 13-28, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22388/18832.
Sabatini F. 1990, Rigidità-esplicitezza vs elasticità-implicitezza: possibili parametri massimi per uma tipologia dei testi, in Skytte G. e Sabatini F., Linguistica testuale comparativa, Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 141-172.
Sobrero A. A. 2006, Lingue Speciali, in Sobrero, A. A. (ed.), Introduzione all'italiano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi. Vol. 2, Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 237-277.

The class offers a diachronic overview of the different paths of translation theory and also presents dictionaries and translation tools. You will deal with the translation from German into Italian of different textual varieties. There will be periodic verifications with in-depth analysis of individual essays.

Course Materials
• Radegundis Stolze, Übersetzungstheorien. Eine Einführung, Narr, Tübingen 2018 (or other editions).

"The protean face of Franco's Spain between novel and intermediality".
The course focuses on the study of metropolitan, provincial and rural society in post-war Spain in some texts from the contemporary novelistic canon, later adapted for cinema and television. The aim is to refine practical and theoretical skills in the analysis of narrative texts, as well as to provide the necessary tools and methodologies for the study of filmic texts. Finally, an initial reflection will be made on the problems related to the teaching of literature and the integration of audiovisual texts for the development of literary skills in Spanish L2 learners.

LITERARY TEXTS

• Camilo José Cela, La colmena, ed. J. Urrutia, Madrid, Cátedra;
• Carmen Martín Gaite, Entre visillos, Barcelona, Destino;
• Miguel Delibes, Los santos inocentes, ed. D. Ródenas de Moya, Barcelona, Crítica.

FILMIC TEXTS
• La colmena (1982) / dir. Mario Camus; guion José Luis Dibildos.
• Entre visillos (1974) / dir. Miguel Picazo; guion Esmeralda Adam García, Carmen Martín Gaite.
• Los santos inocentes (1984) / dir. Mario Camus; guion Antonio Larreta, Manuel Matji, Mario Camus.

By reviewing the main moments and works of the artistic-literary re-elaboration of political violence in Argentina during the years of the military dictatorship (1976-1983), in a perspective that places Argentine authoritarianism within a broader Latin American framework, the course aims to present students artistic and literary products, to be analyzed through tools and methodologies connected to the most recent studies on post-memory and post-testimony. At first, the main concepts that shape the theoretical apparatus will be presented, then the works in the program will be analyzed and discussed. The concluding lectures will be devoted to a reflection on literature as an archive of political and social violence and its didactics in the context of recent studies on the "pedagogy of memory".

- Lola Arias, Mi vida después y otros textos, Buenos Aires, Reservoir Books, 2016
- Graciela Bialet, I rospi della memoria di Roma, Rapsodia Edizioni, 2021
- Marco Bechis, La solitudine del sovversivo, Milano, Guanda, 2021
- Daniele Cini, La sirena, Italia, 2008 (cortometraggio)
- Damián Olivito, El cielo sobre Riace, Argentina, 2020 (documentario)
- Marta Dillon, Aparecida, Narni, Gran Via Edizioni, 2021 [2019].

The course aims to provide a historical-literary analysis of authoritarianism in Brazil during the period of military dictatorship (1964-1985) through the study and examination of reflections on violence and political repression developed in the field of women's literature. Specifically, it will be examined literary texts that interpret the socio-historical reality of Brazil through the construction of an anti-authoritarian literary discourse and through the elaboration of new expressive and aesthetic forms.
The course consists of an introductory part relating to the historical context and the presentation of the general contents, and an in-depth analysis of the literary works on the syllabus.

Jaime Ginzburg, “A violência constitutiva e a política do esquecimento”, in Crítica em tempos de violência, São Paulo, edusp-fapesp, 2012, pp. 217-238;

Ettore Finazzi Agrò, (Des)memória e catástrofe: considerações sobre a literatura pós-golpe de 1964, «Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea», n. 43, 2014, pp. 179-190;

Maria Amélia de Almeida Teles, Violações dos direitos humanos das mulheres na ditadura, «Revista Estudos Feministas», Florianópolis, v. 23 n. 3, 2015, pp. 1001-1022;

Clarice Lispector, A hora da estrela, Rio de Janeiro, Rocco, 1998 (ed. it. L’ora della stella, in Le passioni e i legami, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2013 pp. 727-787);

Ettore Finazzi Agrò, A (im)possível resposta. Clarice Lispector e a obrigação ao testemunho, «Revista Eletrônica Literatura e Autoritarismo» – Dossiê n. 9, Setembro de 2012, pp. 4-15;

Lygia Fagundes Telles, As horas nuas, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2010 (ed. it. Le ore nude, Milano, La Tartaruga, 1993);

Ana Paula dos Santos Martins, Entre espelhos, máscaras, palcos e memórias: o jogo da representação em As horas nuas, de Lygia Fagundes Telles, «Estudos De Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea», (56), 2019, pp. 1–16;

Heloneida Studart, O pardal é um pássaro azul, São Paulo, Círculo do Livro, s.d. (ed. it. La libertà è un passero blu, Milano, Marcos y Marcos, 2012);

Alessia Di Eugenio, Literatura, autoritarismo e corpo das mulheres. A ditadura brasileira através dos romances de Heloneida Studart, «Revell - Revista de Estudos Literários da UEMS», 2(25), 215–233

In the teaching of English literature, the term 'English (High) Modernism' has long been used to identify, among the poems and novels written in the United Kingdom from the early twentieth century to the post-war period, a body of works so unique that it required a new academic discipline - English Studies - to make them understandable to the English public.
It is interesting to note that, while the difficult and impersonal poetry of the 'modernists' was presented as a rebellion against the kind of poetry written over the past three centuries, the modernist novel was hailed instead as the culmination of an evolution that led the crude creations of a Daniel Defoe to become finally an art form.
Perhaps not enough thought has been given to the fact that many of the modernist authors - and certainly the major ones - were foreigners; some lived in London as expatriates, but they were a minority: others resided in the English countryside, others in Europe.
The course will be an opportunity for a reflection on the meaning of "modernism", and on how to conceptualize that period through the notion of "modernisms". We will study three novels by modernists - only one of which is 'English' - and a selection of poetic works, which we will address by contrasting the American priests of "modernist" poetry and other poets. It will be interesting to hear what the students think about these poems.

Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes (1911)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)

T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams vs. W. B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen, D. H. Lawrence e Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost

Through the rewritings of visual, narrative, and poetic texts (ekphrases, parodies, adaptations for the stage and the screen), published in a period ranging from the last decades of the 18th century to the end of the 20th, the course investigates the specificities of different genres, languages and media and the processes of adaptation and transcodification. Reflection will also focus on issues related to democracy and citizenship in the United States; racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination; civil rights; transculturalism.

Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. In The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley, ed. John Shields (Oxford UP, 1988)
Henry James, "Daisy Miller". In Daisy Miller and Other Stories, ed. John Gooder (Oxford UP, 2009);
-----, “Pandora”. Ibidem.
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (W.W. Norton Annotated Edition, 2001);
The Wizard of Oz (film), dir. Victor Fleming;
The Wiz (film), dir. Sidney Lumet.
William Carlos Williams, Paterson (New Directions);
Paterson (film), dir. Jim Jarmusch.
Carole Maso, The Art Lover (New Directions, 1995).

Moscow (1920-2020): Utopias, Transformations and Nostalgia

M. Bulgakov Master i Margarita
V. Aksenov Zvezdnyi bilet
V. Erofeev Moskva-Petushki
V. Pelevin Omon Ra
Vl. Sorokin Eros Moskvy, Sakharnyj Kreml'

1 additional reading
A. Platonov Shastlivaia Moskva
Ju. Trifonov Dom nа naberezhnoi
Glukhovsky Metro 2033

Selected poems

The course consists of: a) Old Church Slavonic grammar - the first literary language of the Slavs - and the reading of texts in Old Slavonic; b) an introduction to the history of the development and peculiarities of the written culture of Rus', the history of the formation of the Russian language through Church Slavonic and Old Russian.
Old Church Slavonic: history and main concepts
Old Church Slavonic: grammar, texts
Church Slavonic of a Russian redaction and Old Russian. Texts.

Nicoletta Marcialis. Introduzione alla lingua paleoslava. FUP 2005
Lilia Skomorochova Venturini, Corso di lingua paleoslava. Grammatica. Edizioni ETS 2005
Horace G. Lunt, Old Church Slavonic Grammar. Seventh Revised Edition. Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.
Horace G. Lunt, On the Relationship of Old Church Slavonic to the Written Language of Early Rus'. Russian Linguistics , 1987, Vol. 11, No. 2/3 (1987), pp. 133-162
Kasatkin L., Krysin L., Zhivov V. Il russo. Firenze, 1999
Ulteriori materiali e nozioni bibliografiche vengono fornite a lezione.

Interpreting the landscape in medieval English literature


Motifs related to the representation of landscape and the natural environment in the Middle Ages will be identified through the reading of passages from Old and Middle English poetic works. How forests, gardens and trees, pleasant or wild places mark the narration and interact with the characters will be specifically dealt with in texts such as: Beowulf, Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl. References will also be made to other works from the Germanic world, both from the Continental and Norse traditions.
The philological-literary analysis of the texts will be accompanied by the study of the main lexical, morphological and syntactical changes that have occurred in the English language over the centuries.

Students (who will be guided in their choice of topics and bibliographic material) will be required to submit a paper, individually or in groups, on literary-historical, linguistic and textual topics related to works of the Germanic Middle Ages.

Texts:

- G. Brunetti (ed.), Beowulf, Roma: Carocci, (selection of passages).
- The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/)
- L. D. Benson, ed., The Riverside Chaucer, Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1987 (selection of passages) .
- The Canterbury Tales and Other Works of Chaucer (Middle English): https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/mect/index.htm
- M. Andrew and R. Waldron, edd., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Exeter: Exeter University Press 2007 (selections of passages).
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;idno=Gawain (trad.: http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/ready.htm)

Texts and critical essays:

- Ernst R. Curtius, Letteratura europea e medioevo latino, Scandicci (Firenze): La Nuova Italia,1992 , cap. X. Il paesaggio ideale, pp. 207-226.
- Paul Zumthor, La misura del mondo. La rappresentazione dello spazio nel Medio Evo, Bologna, Il mulino, 1995.
- Nicholas Howe,, “The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England: Inherited, Invented, Imagined.” In Inventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western Europe, edited by John Howe and Michael Wolfe, 91-112. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
- Margaret Gelling, The landscape of Beowulf, in AngloSaxon England, 32 (2001), pp. 7-11.
- William F. Woods, 2002. 'Nature and the Inner Man in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight .' Chaucer Review 36, 3 (2002), pp. 209-27.
- Paul A. Olson, 'Chaucer's Merchant and January's “Hevene in Erthe Heere”, in ELH 28, n. 3 (1961), pp. 203-214.
- Elizabeth Petroff, “Landscape in ‘Pearl’: The Transformation of Nature.” The Chaucer Review 16, no. 2 (1981), pp. 181–93.

History of medieval English literature:

- D. Wallace, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002 (Chapters 1,2,6,21,26)
- P. Boitani, La letteratura del Medioevo inglese, Roma, Carocci 2001.

History of the English language:
- C. Barber, The English Language: a Historical Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009.

Textual criticism:
- Anna Maria Luiselli Fadda, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Roma-Bari: Laterza 2004 (Parts II e III).

Additional bibliographical material (critical editions, glossaries, critical essays etc.) will be provided during the course.

The course focuses on language pathologies, with particular attention to the deficits related to the discursive communication. Among the cases discusses, there are the communicative deficits characterizing pathologies such as autism, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury. In such cases, as well as in many neuropsychological and psychopathological disorders, the communicative impairments mainly concern the level of discourse and depend on deficits that primarily involve the cognitive dimension, rather than the linguistic one. Thus, the study of discourse disorders is particularly useful to investigate a more general question that is extremely relevant from a theoretical point of view: the relationships between language and cognition.

1) Adornetti I. (2018) Patologie del linguaggio e della comunicazione. Carocci, Roma

2) Pawełczyk, A., Łojek, E., Żurner, N., Kotlicka‐Antczak, M., & Pawełczyk, T. (2021). Higher order language impairments can predict the transition of ultrahigh risk state to psychosis—An empirical study. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 15(2), 314-327.

3) Galbraith, N. (2021). Delusions and Pathologies of Belief: Making Sense of Conspiracy Beliefs via the Psychosis Continuum. In Cardella V., Gangemi A. (a cura di) Psychopathology and Philosophy of Mind: What Mental Disorders Can Tell Us About Our Minds (pp. 117-144). Routledge. (disponibile al link: https://ebrary.net/178492/psychology/delusions_pathologies_belief_making_sense_conspiracy_beliefs_psychosis_continuum)

The climate emergency demands new forms of linguistic and conceptual inventiveness, in literature and in politics. Focusing on the vulnerability and value of human and non-human life on a warming planet, this module will discuss the climate emergency as a dynamic opening: an invitation to re-think categories of place and space, and to re-imagine the future not in terms of eschatological closure, but as a state of protracted uncertainty that necessitates new political and epistemic modes. We will read recent novels by Niccolò Ammaniti, Antonia Honeywell, Emily St John Mandel, Lydia Millet and Nnedi Okorafor. We will also discuss two precursors: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) and H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds (1896). A variety of critical approaches will be considered, including decolonial theory, psychoanalytic criticism, posthumanism, Anthropocene Studies, deconstruction, critical animal studies and genre theory.

Primary Texts:

Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna (Turin: Einaudi, 2015), translation, Anna (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2017).
Antonia Honeywell, The Ship (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2015).
Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven (London: Picador, 2014).
Cormac McCarthy, The Road (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).
Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible (New York: W.W. Norton, 2020).
Nnedi Okorafor, Lagoon (London: Hodder and Stoughton 2014).
H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds [1898], ed. by A. Sawyer (London: Penguin, 2005), or any other available edition.

Dystopia from M (1984) to Z (zombies) and the Question of Textualities

«Utopia is an idyllic world described by the hero and considered perfect, in contrast to the world he has left. The dystopia paints a nightmare world, apprehended as such in opposition to a better world known to the hero thanks to his personal experience, thanks to the memories of a bygone age, or thanks to the reading of forbidden books dedicated to a distant past» (Hélène Greven-Borde, Formes modernes du roman utopique en Grande Bretagne (1918- 1960), in «Etudes Anglaises», 1, 1977: 20). The course starts by tracing a genealogy of dystopia in literature and culture, and then looks at theories of adaptation examining a wide variety of examples drawn from the radio, opera, cinema, and television.
The core syllabus consists of twelve dystopian texts, in the broader meaning: we will read and discuss George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Niccolò Ammaniti’s Anna, Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven and their adaptations for different media: film, television, opera, radio. We will approach the notions of intertexuality thanks to Alan Moore’s graphic novel V. for Vendetta, and of intermediality through Simon Armitage’s radio drama The Raft of Medusa.
In analysing the texts, a variety of critical approaches will be considered, including theory of adaptation, media studies, intermedial studies, and genre theory. The course will also take into consideration the significance of dystopia in relation to social transformations, technological change, totalitarianism, and capitalist modernity.

Bibliography:

Theory:
1. Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation, New York-London, Routledge 2006 (trad. it. Teoria degli adattamenti, Roma, Armando 2011); OR Henry Jenkins, Convergence culture. Where old and new media collide, New York, New York University Press, 2006 (trad it. Cultura convergente, Milano, Apogeo 2007).
2. Massimo Fusillo et al. (a cura di), Oltre l’adattamento? Narrazioni espanse, Bologna, il Mulino, 2020.
3. Irina O. Rajewsky, Intermediality, Intertextuality, and Remediation: A Literary Perspective on Intermediality. In «Intermédialités / Intermediality», n. 6, 2005, pp. 43-64.
4. Francesco de Cristofaro (a cura di), Letterature comparate [nuova ed.], Roma, Carocci 2020.
5. Gregory Claeys, Dystopia: A natural history. A study of modern despotism, its antecedents, and its literary diffractions, Oxford, Oxford University Preess 2017; OR Patricia McManus, Critical theory and dystopia, Manchester, Manchester University Press 2022; OR Francesco Muzzioli, Scritture della catastrofe: Istruzioni e ragguagli per un viaggio nelle distopie, Milano, Meltemi 2021; OR Fátima Vieira (ed.), Dystopia(n) Matters : On the Page, on Screen, on Stage, Newcastle Upon Tweed, Cambridge Scholars Publisher 2013.
Primary texts and media adaptations:
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four [1948], any available edition (trad. it. ogni traduzione accreditata)
 Medial transpositions:
• [Film] Nineteen Eighty-Four, directed by film Michael Radford, UK 1984;
• [Opera] Nineteen Eighty-Four, composed and directed by Lorin Maazel, libretto by J. D. McClatchy and Thomas Meehan, premiered in London, May 3 2005, Royal Opera House;
• [Radio Drama] Nineteen Eighty-Four, dramatised by Jonathan Holloway, directed by Jeremy Mortimer, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 10th and 17th February 2013


Cormac McCarthy, The Road, New York, Alfred A. Knopf 2006
 Film: The Road, directed by John Hillcoat, USA 2009

Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven, London, Picador, 2014
 Station Eleven, created by Emily St. John Mandel and Claire Welland, HBO, USA 2021-2022

Niccolò Ammaniti, Anna, Torino, Einaudi 2015
 Miniseries: Anna, created by Niccolò Ammaniti, Sky Studios, Italia 2021

Intertexuality:
Graphic novel: Alan Moore and David Lloyd, V. for Vendetta [1982-1989], any available edition (trad. it. V per Vendetta, Milano, Rizzoli 2006)

Intermediality:
Radio drama: The Raft of Medusa, written by Simon Armitage, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 18th April 2015

Optional Primary Sources:
H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds [1898], ed. by A. Sawyer, London, Penguin 2005
 Radio: The War of the Worlds, directed by Orson Welles, CBS, USA 1938

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale [1985], London, Vintage Classics 2017 (trad. it. Il racconto dell'ancella, Milano, Mondadori 1988)
 Series: The Handmaid’s Tale, created by Bruce Miller, Hulu and MGM, USA-Canada 2017–

P.D. James, Children of Men, London, Faber and Faber, 1992
 Film: Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, UK-USA 2006

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 [1953], any available edition (trad. it. ogni traduzione accreditata)
 Fahrenheit 451, directed by François Truffaut, France 1966

Other sources to be agreed (Z is for Zombies too…)

- Speech Acts theory. Locution, illocution, perlocution.
- The Cooperation Principle and the theory of conversational
implicatures. Relevance theory.
- The linguistic and extralinguistic context. Ambiguity.
- The context. Deixis and Anaphora.
- Face and Politeness.
- Culture and Language. Linguistics, anthropology, ethnography.
- Linguistic presuppositions: existence presupposition, truth
presupposition.
- Pragmatic presuppositions: felicity condicions.
- Information Structure of the Utterance: Given and New, Theme
and Rheme, Fore- and Background.

1) Bianchi, Claudia. (2003). Pragmatica del linguaggio. Roma-Bari, Laterza.

2) Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo. (2009). La struttura informativa. Forma e funzione negli enunciati linguistici. Roma, Carocci.

- Speech Acts theory. Locution, illocution, perlocution.
- The Cooperation Principle and the theory of conversational implicatures. Relevance theory.
- The linguistic and extralinguistic context. Ambiguity.
- The context. Deixis and Anaphora.
- Face and Politeness.
- Culture and Language. Linguistics, anthropology, ethnography.
- Linguistic presuppositions: existence presupposition, truth presupposition.
- Pragmatic presuppositions: felicity condicions.
- Information Structure of the Utterance: Given and New, Theme and Rheme, Fore- and Background.
- Strategies of persuasion: the language of advertising and propaganda.

- Cecilia Andorno, Che cos'è la pragmatica linguistica. Roma, Carocci, 2005.
- Lombardi Vallauri, E. La struttura informativa. Forma e funzione negli enunciati linguistici, Roma, Carocci, 2009.
- Lombardi Vallauri, E. La lingua disonesta. Bologna, il Mulino, 2019.

The course aims to analyse and to translate Hispanic essayistic prose. Guided by the teacher, students will learn techniques of the expositive and argumentative writings in Spanish and translation’s strategies and they will focus primarily on the strategies and thinking of Ortega y Gasset.

1) Manuali e saggi
Montolío, Estrella, Manual de escritura académica y profesional, I. Estrategias gramaticales, II. Estrategias discursivas, Barcelona, Ariel, 2014. Disponible edizione ebook della versione in due volumi.
Vicente Cervera, Belén Hernández - Mª Dolores Adsuar (eds.), El ensayo como género literario, Murcia, Universidad, 2005 (articoli di Pedro Aullón de Haro, Elena Arenas Cruz, José María Pozuelo Yvancos). Disponibile online: https://libros.um.es/editum/catalog/book/971
Gracia, Jordi – Ródenas de Moya, Domingo, Pensar por ensayos en la España del siglo XX, Barcelona, UAB, 2015, pp. 31-151.
Juliá, Santos, «Penetrar, educar y conducir a la masa: la intelectualidad como minoría selecta», in Historias de las dos Españas, Madrid, Taurus, 2015, pp. 139-188.
Eventuali altre indicazioni bibliografiche verranno fornite agli studenti nel corso delle lezioni.

2) Testi
Ortega y Gasset, José, Meditaciones del Quijote, ed. Julián Marías, Madrid, Cátedra, 2012.
Ortega y Gasset, España invertebrada y otros ensayos, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2014.
Zambrano, María, Pensamiento y poesía en la vida española, ed. Mercedes Gómez Blesa, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2004.
Marías, Julián, España inteligible. Razón histórica de las Españas, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2020.
Paz, Octavio, Tiempo nublado, Barcelona, Planeta, 1995.

Additional mandatory material for students who have failed their final tests (written essay and oral presentation) and for non-attending students.
Ortega y Gasset, La rebelión de las masas y otros ensayos, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2014.
Alcaide Lara, Esperanza R., La argumentación lingüística y sus medios de expresión, Madrid, Arco Libros, 2010.

The course aims to analyse the textual and linguistic characteristics of web-mediated hybrid textual genres for scientific or semi-scientific (semi-)popularisation and to provide students with adequate tools to be able to subtitle high and medium specialised audiovisual texts (technical-translational competence) and to critically reflect on the PB LSP, especially the monitored academic speech variety.
By the end of the course, students will have refined their linguistic-communicative skills in the two varieties (PE and PB).
These knowledge and skills will be acquired through regular participation in lectures and other supplementary teaching activities.

Cortelazzo, M. 1994, Lingue speciali, Unipress, Padova.
De Rosa GL e Morleo F. in corso di stampa, Os Marcadores Discursivos no Discurso Especializado.
De Rosa GL 2020, O Discurso Científico mediado pela web. Legendar videoverbetes entre tipologias textuais, línguas especiais e problemáticas tradutórias, Lingue Linguaggi, pp. 29-45, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22381/18823.
De Rosa GL 2020, Características da fala acadêmica monitorada no Brasil: os videoverbetes da ENCIDIS entre PB técnico-científico e PB neo-standard, Cultura Latinoamerica, Universidad Católica de Bogotá.
Gualdo, R e Telve S. 2012, Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Carocci, Roma.
Gotti M. 1991, I Linguaggi Specialistici. Caratteristiche linguistiche e criteri pragmatici, La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
Mariani B. 2018, Linguagem, conhecimento e tecnologia: a Enciclopédia Audiovisual da Análise do Discurso e áreas afins, in “Linguagem & Ensino” v.21, n. esp., VIII SENALE, pp. 359-393.
Mariani B 2020, La produzione e la circolazione del sapere su piattaforme digitali: lo status del portoghese brasiliano in un’enciclopedia digitale sottotitolata, Lingue Linguaggi (2020), pp. 13-28, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22388/18832.
Sabatini F. 1990, Rigidità-esplicitezza vs elasticità-implicitezza: possibili parametri massimi per uma tipologia dei testi, in Skytte G. e Sabatini F., Linguistica testuale comparativa, Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 141-172.
Sobrero A. A. 2006, Lingue Speciali, in Sobrero, A. A. (ed.), Introduzione all'italiano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi. Vol. 2, Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 237-277.

The class offers a diachronic overview of the different paths of translation theory and also presents dictionaries and translation tools. You will deal with the translation from German into Italian of different textual varieties. There will be periodic verifications with in-depth analysis of individual essays.

Course Materials
• Radegundis Stolze, Übersetzungstheorien. Eine Einführung, Narr, Tübingen 2018 (or other editions).

"The protean face of Franco's Spain between novel and intermediality".
The course focuses on the study of metropolitan, provincial and rural society in post-war Spain in some texts from the contemporary novelistic canon, later adapted for cinema and television. The aim is to refine practical and theoretical skills in the analysis of narrative texts, as well as to provide the necessary tools and methodologies for the study of filmic texts. Finally, an initial reflection will be made on the problems related to the teaching of literature and the integration of audiovisual texts for the development of literary skills in Spanish L2 learners.

LITERARY TEXTS

• Camilo José Cela, La colmena, ed. J. Urrutia, Madrid, Cátedra;
• Carmen Martín Gaite, Entre visillos, Barcelona, Destino;
• Miguel Delibes, Los santos inocentes, ed. D. Ródenas de Moya, Barcelona, Crítica.

FILMIC TEXTS
• La colmena (1982) / dir. Mario Camus; guion José Luis Dibildos.
• Entre visillos (1974) / dir. Miguel Picazo; guion Esmeralda Adam García, Carmen Martín Gaite.
• Los santos inocentes (1984) / dir. Mario Camus; guion Antonio Larreta, Manuel Matji, Mario Camus.

By reviewing the main moments and works of the artistic-literary re-elaboration of political violence in Argentina during the years of the military dictatorship (1976-1983), in a perspective that places Argentine authoritarianism within a broader Latin American framework, the course aims to present students artistic and literary products, to be analyzed through tools and methodologies connected to the most recent studies on post-memory and post-testimony. At first, the main concepts that shape the theoretical apparatus will be presented, then the works in the program will be analyzed and discussed. The concluding lectures will be devoted to a reflection on literature as an archive of political and social violence and its didactics in the context of recent studies on the "pedagogy of memory".

- Lola Arias, Mi vida después y otros textos, Buenos Aires, Reservoir Books, 2016
- Graciela Bialet, I rospi della memoria di Roma, Rapsodia Edizioni, 2021
- Marco Bechis, La solitudine del sovversivo, Milano, Guanda, 2021
- Daniele Cini, La sirena, Italia, 2008 (cortometraggio)
- Damián Olivito, El cielo sobre Riace, Argentina, 2020 (documentario)
- Marta Dillon, Aparecida, Narni, Gran Via Edizioni, 2021 [2019].

The course aims to provide a historical-literary analysis of authoritarianism in Brazil during the period of military dictatorship (1964-1985) through the study and examination of reflections on violence and political repression developed in the field of women's literature. Specifically, it will be examined literary texts that interpret the socio-historical reality of Brazil through the construction of an anti-authoritarian literary discourse and through the elaboration of new expressive and aesthetic forms.
The course consists of an introductory part relating to the historical context and the presentation of the general contents, and an in-depth analysis of the literary works on the syllabus.

Jaime Ginzburg, “A violência constitutiva e a política do esquecimento”, in Crítica em tempos de violência, São Paulo, edusp-fapesp, 2012, pp. 217-238;

Ettore Finazzi Agrò, (Des)memória e catástrofe: considerações sobre a literatura pós-golpe de 1964, «Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea», n. 43, 2014, pp. 179-190;

Maria Amélia de Almeida Teles, Violações dos direitos humanos das mulheres na ditadura, «Revista Estudos Feministas», Florianópolis, v. 23 n. 3, 2015, pp. 1001-1022;

Clarice Lispector, A hora da estrela, Rio de Janeiro, Rocco, 1998 (ed. it. L’ora della stella, in Le passioni e i legami, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2013 pp. 727-787);

Ettore Finazzi Agrò, A (im)possível resposta. Clarice Lispector e a obrigação ao testemunho, «Revista Eletrônica Literatura e Autoritarismo» – Dossiê n. 9, Setembro de 2012, pp. 4-15;

Lygia Fagundes Telles, As horas nuas, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2010 (ed. it. Le ore nude, Milano, La Tartaruga, 1993);

Ana Paula dos Santos Martins, Entre espelhos, máscaras, palcos e memórias: o jogo da representação em As horas nuas, de Lygia Fagundes Telles, «Estudos De Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea», (56), 2019, pp. 1–16;

Heloneida Studart, O pardal é um pássaro azul, São Paulo, Círculo do Livro, s.d. (ed. it. La libertà è un passero blu, Milano, Marcos y Marcos, 2012);

Alessia Di Eugenio, Literatura, autoritarismo e corpo das mulheres. A ditadura brasileira através dos romances de Heloneida Studart, «Revell - Revista de Estudos Literários da UEMS», 2(25), 215–233

In the teaching of English literature, the term 'English (High) Modernism' has long been used to identify, among the poems and novels written in the United Kingdom from the early twentieth century to the post-war period, a body of works so unique that it required a new academic discipline - English Studies - to make them understandable to the English public.
It is interesting to note that, while the difficult and impersonal poetry of the 'modernists' was presented as a rebellion against the kind of poetry written over the past three centuries, the modernist novel was hailed instead as the culmination of an evolution that led the crude creations of a Daniel Defoe to become finally an art form.
Perhaps not enough thought has been given to the fact that many of the modernist authors - and certainly the major ones - were foreigners; some lived in London as expatriates, but they were a minority: others resided in the English countryside, others in Europe.
The course will be an opportunity for a reflection on the meaning of "modernism", and on how to conceptualize that period through the notion of "modernisms". We will study three novels by modernists - only one of which is 'English' - and a selection of poetic works, which we will address by contrasting the American priests of "modernist" poetry and other poets. It will be interesting to hear what the students think about these poems.

Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes (1911)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)

T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams vs. W. B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen, D. H. Lawrence e Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost

Through the rewritings of visual, narrative, and poetic texts (ekphrases, parodies, adaptations for the stage and the screen), published in a period ranging from the last decades of the 18th century to the end of the 20th, the course investigates the specificities of different genres, languages and media and the processes of adaptation and transcodification. Reflection will also focus on issues related to democracy and citizenship in the United States; racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination; civil rights; transculturalism.

Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. In The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley, ed. John Shields (Oxford UP, 1988)
Henry James, "Daisy Miller". In Daisy Miller and Other Stories, ed. John Gooder (Oxford UP, 2009);
-----, “Pandora”. Ibidem.
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (W.W. Norton Annotated Edition, 2001);
The Wizard of Oz (film), dir. Victor Fleming;
The Wiz (film), dir. Sidney Lumet.
William Carlos Williams, Paterson (New Directions);
Paterson (film), dir. Jim Jarmusch.
Carole Maso, The Art Lover (New Directions, 1995).

The course consists of: a) Old Church Slavonic grammar - the first literary language of the Slavs - and the reading of texts in Old Slavonic; b) an introduction to the history of the development and peculiarities of the written culture of Rus', the history of the formation of the Russian language through Church Slavonic and Old Russian.
Old Church Slavonic: history and main concepts
Old Church Slavonic: grammar, texts
Church Slavonic of a Russian redaction and Old Russian. Texts.

Nicoletta Marcialis. Introduzione alla lingua paleoslava. FUP 2005
Lilia Skomorochova Venturini, Corso di lingua paleoslava. Grammatica. Edizioni ETS 2005
Horace G. Lunt, Old Church Slavonic Grammar. Seventh Revised Edition. Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001.
Horace G. Lunt, On the Relationship of Old Church Slavonic to the Written Language of Early Rus'. Russian Linguistics , 1987, Vol. 11, No. 2/3 (1987), pp. 133-162
Kasatkin L., Krysin L., Zhivov V. Il russo. Firenze, 1999
Ulteriori materiali e nozioni bibliografiche vengono fornite a lezione.

Interpreting the landscape in medieval English literature


Motifs related to the representation of landscape and the natural environment in the Middle Ages will be identified through the reading of passages from Old and Middle English poetic works. How forests, gardens and trees, pleasant or wild places mark the narration and interact with the characters will be specifically dealt with in texts such as: Beowulf, Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl. References will also be made to other works from the Germanic world, both from the Continental and Norse traditions.
The philological-literary analysis of the texts will be accompanied by the study of the main lexical, morphological and syntactical changes that have occurred in the English language over the centuries.

Students (who will be guided in their choice of topics and bibliographic material) will be required to submit a paper, individually or in groups, on literary-historical, linguistic and textual topics related to works of the Germanic Middle Ages.

Texts:

- G. Brunetti (ed.), Beowulf, Roma: Carocci, (selection of passages).
- The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/)
- L. D. Benson, ed., The Riverside Chaucer, Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1987 (selection of passages) .
- The Canterbury Tales and Other Works of Chaucer (Middle English): https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/mect/index.htm
- M. Andrew and R. Waldron, edd., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Exeter: Exeter University Press 2007 (selections of passages).
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;idno=Gawain (trad.: http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/ready.htm)

Texts and critical essays:

- Ernst R. Curtius, Letteratura europea e medioevo latino, Scandicci (Firenze): La Nuova Italia,1992 , cap. X. Il paesaggio ideale, pp. 207-226.
- Paul Zumthor, La misura del mondo. La rappresentazione dello spazio nel Medio Evo, Bologna, Il mulino, 1995.
- Nicholas Howe,, “The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England: Inherited, Invented, Imagined.” In Inventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western Europe, edited by John Howe and Michael Wolfe, 91-112. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
- Margaret Gelling, The landscape of Beowulf, in AngloSaxon England, 32 (2001), pp. 7-11.
- William F. Woods, 2002. 'Nature and the Inner Man in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight .' Chaucer Review 36, 3 (2002), pp. 209-27.
- Paul A. Olson, 'Chaucer's Merchant and January's “Hevene in Erthe Heere”, in ELH 28, n. 3 (1961), pp. 203-214.
- Elizabeth Petroff, “Landscape in ‘Pearl’: The Transformation of Nature.” The Chaucer Review 16, no. 2 (1981), pp. 181–93.

History of medieval English literature:

- D. Wallace, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002 (Chapters 1,2,6,21,26)
- P. Boitani, La letteratura del Medioevo inglese, Roma, Carocci 2001.

History of the English language:
- C. Barber, The English Language: a Historical Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009.

Textual criticism:
- Anna Maria Luiselli Fadda, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Roma-Bari: Laterza 2004 (Parts II e III).

Additional bibliographical material (critical editions, glossaries, critical essays etc.) will be provided during the course.

Jews and Romans in the 1st century AD

The course is aimed at an in-depth analysis of the ways in which Rome has organized its government on the Near East. Particular attention will be paid to the history of Palestine in the 1st century AD. The reading of the Jewish War by Josephus and other contemporary texts will allow students to acquire adequate information on the problems of the Jewish society of the period.

Flavio Giuseppe- La guerra giudaica, a cura di Giovanni Vitucci, Mondadori Editore, Milano 1982.
Giulio Firpo, Le rivolte giudaiche, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1999
Linda Marie Günther- Erode il Grande, Salerno
Editrice, Roma 2007

The course will address the role of philosophy in its relationship with art, beginning with the idea of philosophy proposed by Deleuze and Guattari.

G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, Mille piani, qualsiasi edizione.

RUSSIA, AN EMPIRE
The course will focus on empire as a peculiar element of continuity in contemporary Russian history despite the radical changes that the country has undergone. The unique characteristics of Russia’s imperial model will be analyzed in its various forms and manifestations, along with the diverse political strategies of Russian governors between 1800 and 1900s, from the Russian Empire through the USSR to the Russian Federation. The national question, the broader geographical dimension, the forms of government, foreign policies and international geopolitical visions will be studied in depth. The different imperial ideologies will also be examined.

1. Andrea Graziosi, L’Unione Sovietica 1914-1991, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011;
2. Andreas Kappeler, La Russia. Storia di un impero multietnico, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2006.
3. Gian Piero Piretto, Gli occhi di Stalin. La cultura visuale sovietica nell'era staliniana, Milano, Raffello Cortina Editore, 2010

Moscow (1920-2020): Utopias, Transformations and Nostalgia

M. Bulgakov Master i Margarita
V. Aksenov Zvezdnyi bilet
V. Erofeev Moskva-Petushki
V. Pelevin Omon Ra
Vl. Sorokin Eros Moskvy, Sakharnyj Kreml'

1 additional reading
A. Platonov Shastlivaia Moskva
Ju. Trifonov Dom nа naberezhnoi
Glukhovsky Metro 2033

Selected poems

- Speech Acts theory. Locution, illocution, perlocution.
- The Cooperation Principle and the theory of conversational
implicatures. Relevance theory.
- The linguistic and extralinguistic context. Ambiguity.
- The context. Deixis and Anaphora.
- Face and Politeness.
- Culture and Language. Linguistics, anthropology, ethnography.
- Linguistic presuppositions: existence presupposition, truth
presupposition.
- Pragmatic presuppositions: felicity condicions.
- Information Structure of the Utterance: Given and New, Theme
and Rheme, Fore- and Background.

1) Bianchi, Claudia. (2003). Pragmatica del linguaggio. Roma-Bari, Laterza.

2) Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo. (2009). La struttura informativa. Forma e funzione negli enunciati linguistici. Roma, Carocci.

- Speech Acts theory. Locution, illocution, perlocution.
- The Cooperation Principle and the theory of conversational implicatures. Relevance theory.
- The linguistic and extralinguistic context. Ambiguity.
- The context. Deixis and Anaphora.
- Face and Politeness.
- Culture and Language. Linguistics, anthropology, ethnography.
- Linguistic presuppositions: existence presupposition, truth presupposition.
- Pragmatic presuppositions: felicity condicions.
- Information Structure of the Utterance: Given and New, Theme and Rheme, Fore- and Background.
- Strategies of persuasion: the language of advertising and propaganda.

- Cecilia Andorno, Che cos'è la pragmatica linguistica. Roma, Carocci, 2005.
- Lombardi Vallauri, E. La struttura informativa. Forma e funzione negli enunciati linguistici, Roma, Carocci, 2009.
- Lombardi Vallauri, E. La lingua disonesta. Bologna, il Mulino, 2019.

Textbook: E. Jezek, “Il lessico. Classi di parole, strutture, combinazioni”, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2011.

Chapter 1 - Nozioni di base (Basic concepts of lexicology)
Except table 1.2, "Profili sintagmatici assimilabili alla parola", and table 1.3, "Tipologia della parola".
Chapter 2 - L'informazione lessicale (Lexical information).
Chapter 3 - Il significato delle parole (The meaning of words).
Chapter 4 - La struttura globale del lessico (The global structure of lexicon).
Chapter 5 - Strutture paradigmatiche del lessico (Paradigmatic structures of lexicon).
Except paragraph 7, "Configurazioni lessicali".
Chapter 6 - Strutture sintagmatiche del lessico (Syntagmatic structures of lexicon).

E. Jezek, “Il lessico. Classi di parole, strutture, combinazioni”, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2011.

In addition, there is a PDF file of lecture notes on Moodle.

Lombard Southern Italy. Power and Society, in the Ninth-Eleventh Centuries (part one, 6 cfu).
The course aims to analyze, with direct use of sources and historiography, the relationships between princely powers and society in the Lombard Southern Italy, from the principality of Arechi (774) to the eleventh century: princes and aristocracy, economic bases of princely power, relations between city and territory.

G. Zornetta, Italia meridionale longobarda. Competizione, conflitto e potere politico a Benevento (secoli VIII-IX), Rome, Viella, 2020, , capitoli 2, 3, 4; V. Loré, Uno spazio instabile. Capua e i suoi conti nella seconda meta del IX secolo, in Les élites et leurs espaces. Mobilité, rayonnement, domination (du VIe au XIe siècle), eds. P. Depreux, F. Bougard, R. Le Jan, Turnhout, Brepols, 2007, pp. 341-360; Idem, Genesi e forme di uno spazio politico: Capua nell’alto Medioevo, in Felix Terra. Capua e la Terra di Lavoro in età longobarda, Atti del convegno internazionale (Capua-Caserta, 4-7 giugno 2015), ed. F. Marazzi, Cerro al Volturno, Volturnia, 2017, pp. 53-64; V. Loré, La chiesa del principe. S. Massimo di Salerno nel quadro del Mezzogiorno longobardo, in Ricerca come incontro. Archeologi, paleografi e storici per Paolo Delogu, a cura di G. Barone, A. Esposito, C. Frova, Rome, Viella, 2013, pp. 103-124; selected sources, analyzed during the lessons. Non-attending students will replace the study of the dossier with Erchemperto, Piccola storia dei Longobardi di Benevento, ed. L. A. Berto, Napoli, Liguori, 2013.

Syllabus TBA

Course Content

Presented within the frame of Religion and Society in Global Perspective, this course explores social, historical, and religious change focusing on western Europe in its relationship with the world. Particular attention will be paid to the Renaissance, Religious Reforms, and the Age of Discovery, starting with the late antique and medieval premises for religious and cultural change, and exploring the transformation of religious/magical beliefs and doctrines, systems of power, identity formation and forms of dissent.
The course introduces students to the foundational themes, methods and skills necessary for the study of upper-level religious and cultural history. With a particular focus on the study of primary sources, it enables students to explore for themselves the characteristics of early modern European religious history in global perspective.
The assessment schedule for this course is set out in stages to allow for the incremental development of core skills in the study of history. It is student-centred and involves a written essay about set primary and secondary readings, an oral presentation, and a final oral exam.

All readings will be made available by the professor on Moodle. The Prof.’s lectures as well as class discussion will be based on those readings.

The consumption of popular culture and policies aimed at influencing popular culture became increasingly salient in 20th century Western societies. Also Italian political parties and governments became aware of the importance of controlling and manipulating popular culture, and started developing sophisticated and effective forms of propaganda. Concurrently, popular culture itself became politically engaged, as militancy started to be conveyed in various forms of popular art, as writings, drawings, songs, radio and TV broadcasts and movies. The relationship between propaganda from above and popular cultures from below must not be interpreted in terms of a rigid opposition, but rather of a conflictual relationship capable of influencing each other.
The course aims at providing a general overview of the main trends in the history of italian popular culture from the early to the late 20th century, as well as at introducing students to key arguments in historical scientific research on the topic. In this way, students will develop skills to critically read, think, discuss and write about a set of historiographical arguments and a multiplicity of historical evidence.
In this sense, the course will detect how mass communication, literature and the visual arts determined the attitudes, moods and mentality of Italian society during the twentieth century.
The first part of the course will focus on the analysis of the concepts of "Popular Culture", "Propaganda", “Consensus Building” and "Political Religion”, with special references to the so-said “cultural turn”, which changed many perspectives in Contemporary History.
The second part of the course will deal with the role of Italian media as, at one hand, a pillar of ideological consensus and social stability and, to the other, as antidote to social conformism and State power. The connection between Italian Media, Popular Culture and Political History will be stressed through main periods of Italian history, observing continuity and fractures from Liberal Italy to Fascist regime and from the Cold War to the Second Italian Republic.

Students attending AND not attenting classes will have to refer to the following essays for the final oral exam:

- R. Moro, Mosse, the Cultural Turn, and the Cruces of Modern Historiography, (in George L. Mosse’s Italy, pp. 131-136)

- Holt N. Parker, Toward a Definition of Popular Culture, in “History and Theory”, May 2011, v. 50, pp. 147-170

- John Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, Cap. 1, "What is Popular Culture", pp. 1-16

In the oral exam, Students attending classes have to refer also on lessons contents. Students not attending classes must to refer instead to the following textbook:

- Matthew Hibberd, The Media in Italy: Press, Cinema and Broadcasting from Unification to Digital, New York, 2008.

In the last part of the course and before oral exam Students attending classes will have to present a paper on one of the following “blocks”. Students not attending classes will have to choose one of the “blocks” for their oral exams as well, besides essays and textbook suggested above.

Block 1: Poetry and Journalism in Early XX Century
- Pierluigi Allotti, The Style of a Revolutionary Journalist (in Mussolini 1883-1915. Triumph and Transformation of Revolutionary Socialist, pp. 225-256)
- Enrico Serventi Longhi, The Triumph of the Noble People: Gabriele d’Annunzio and Populism between literature and politics (in “Qualestoria”)

Block 2: Totalitarian Radio and Music
- Philip V. Cannistraro, The Radio in Fascist Italy (in “Journal of European Studies, vol. 2, 1972, pp.127-154)
- Marilisa Merolla, Jazz and Fascism: Contradictions and Ambivalences in the Diffusion of Jazz Music under the Italian Fascist Dictatorship (1925-1935) (in Jazz and Totalitarism, pp. 31-44)

Block 3: PostWar Italian Cinema and Glamour
-- Maurizio Zinni, Entertainment, Politics and Colonial Identity in Post-War Italian and British Cinema (1945-1960) (in Images of Colonialism and Decolonisation in Italian Media, pp- 67-80)
- Stephen Gundle, Hollywood Glamour and Mass Consuption in Postwar Italy, (in “Journal of Cold War Studies”, vol. 4 n. 3, 2002, pp. 95-118)

Block 4: Women and 70’s
-Andrea Hayek, A Room of One’s Own. Feminist Intersections between Space, Women’s Writing and Radical Bookselling in Milan (1968-1986) (in “Italian Studies”, vol. 73:1, pp. 81-97)
- Ruth Glynn, Press Representation of Italian Women Terrorist (in Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture pp. 39-72)

Block 5: TV fiction and Popular Culture
- Mauro Resmini, ‘Il senso dell'intreccio’: History, Totality, and Collective Agency in Romanzo criminale (in “The Italianist”, vol. 36(2), pp. 243-265)
- Luca Barra, Massimo Scaglioni, Saints, Cops and Camorristi. Editorial Policies and Production Models of Italian TV Fiction, (in “International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, vo. 1, spring 2015, pp. 65-76)

Block 6: Berlusconi and the Second Republic
- Cinzia Padovani, ‘Berlusconi’s Italy’: the media between structure and agency (in “Modern Italy”, vol. 20:1, pp. 41-57)
- Philip Schlesinger, Berlusconi Phenomenon (in Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy,

The course will address the study of the interaction between the technological, economic and political dynamics of human development and those of the natural world, from the 'first' industrial revolution to the beginning of the 21st century.
The course will focus in particular on the period 1945-2000, from which the following subjects will be analysed: the birth of associations for the conservation of the environment; the rise of ecological protest, environmentalist movements and animalism; the development of green cultures and parties in Europe; and the unfolding of the scientific and political debate on climate change. The course will focus on the Italian case: both on environmental and health emergencies in the history of the second half of the 20th century, and on the environmentalist movements and parties that arose and their political course.

The course will deal with translation in its relationship with adaptation practices, focusing in particular on advertising texts, tourist texts and comics. By analysing the verbal-iconic strategies adopted from time to time, the course aims to show how the "lettre-image" connivance is responsible for the effects of meaning intended for the addressee/reader who is, at the same time, a "spectator".

- J.M. Adam & M. Bonhomme, L'argumentation publicitaire. Rhétorique de l'éloge et de la persuasion, Armand Colin 2005 (pp. 3-67; pp. 89-107)
- R. Barthes, Rhétorique de l'image, "Communications", 4, 1964, pp. 40-51
URL: https://www.persee.fr/doc/comm_0588-8018_1964_num_4_1_1027
- C. Kerbrat-Orecchioni, “Suivez le guide! Les modalités de l'invitation au voyage dans les guides touristiques », in F. Baider, M. Burger & D. Goutsos (éds), La communication touristique. Approches discursives de l'identité et de l'altérité, L'Harmattam 2004, pp. 133-150
- S. Moirand, « Le même et l'autre dans les guides de voyage au XXIè siècle », in F. Baider, M. Burger & D. Goutsos (éds), La communication touristique. Approches discursives de l'identité et de l'altérité, L'Harmattam 2004, pp. 151-172.

For the volet on the bande dessinée:

-G. Tallarico, « Stratégies culturelles dans la traduction des livres pour enfants: le cas de Geronimo Stilton », Parallèles, 27, avril 2015, pdf scaricabile all’indirizzo : https://iris.univr.it/handle/11562/817367#.YG22Px8zbIU

-N. Celotti, « La bande dessinée : art reconnu, traduction méconnue », in J. Podeur (a cura di), Tradurre il fumetto, Liguori Editore 2012, pp. 1-12.

-A. Patierno, « Un cas d’adaptation en BD : Le Petit Prince de Saint-Exupéry », in J. Podeur (a cura di), Tradurre il fumetto, Liguori Editore 2012, pp. 29-38.

-J. Muller, “Proust en BD”, Cahiers de narratologie, 31, 2016, URL : https://journals.openedition.org/narratologie/7604

The course consists of two modules.
The first will be devoted to intersemiotic and intermediate translation and its specific techniques, with particular attention to the main translation problems of subtitling and screenplay in the Hispanic-Italian context. In this context, it will deal with the translation of titles, language varieties, songs and humour, in close relation with issues related to culture-specific elements and all adaptation phenomena.

The second module is aimed at the acquisition of methodological tools for the creation of didactic materials, following an eclectic and action-oriented approach. The course includes the design of didactic units for learning the Spanish language, aimed at developing communicative, textual and intercultural competence through the use of ICT. To this end, the link between theatre and education will be explored and the theatrical text and its adaptations and rewritings will be "exploited" in order to experiment innovative pedagogical practices. Students will therefore have the opportunity to consolidate their acquired linguistic-expressive skills, to refine their metalinguistic competence and to experiment with different techniques for using audiovisual materials as mediators of "significant learning".

Testi adottati

1) Textbooks and critical essays
Díaz Cintas, Jorge – Remael, Aline, Audiovisal Translation: Subtitling, London/New York, Routledge, 2007. (Anche epub)

Soler Pardo, Betlem, “La traducción audiovisual en la enseñanza de una LE: la subtitulación como herramienta metodológica para la adquisición de léxico”, Tejuelo, nº 26 (2017), págs. 163-192. (disponibile online)

Díaz-Cintas, J. (2012). Los subtítulos y la subtitulación en la clase de lengua extranjera, en Abehache, año 2-3, págs. 95-114. (disponibile online)

Rodríguez Gonzalo C., La elaboración de unidades como marco de investigación, Valencia, Perifèric, 1999.

Giovanna Benetti, Mariarita Casellato, Imparare per competenze: principi, strategie, esperienze, Loescher, Torino, 2013. (Vd. Roma Tre Discovery)


Griffin, Kim, Lingüística aplicada a la enseñanza del español como segunda lengua, Madrid, Arco/Libros, 2011.



2) Texts
Mihura, M., El caso de la mujer asesinadita, Melocotón en almíbar, Teatro completo, Madrid, Cátedra, 2009, pp. 295-353. (Vd. Roma Tre Discovery)
Almodóvar, P., Parla con lei, Torino, Einaudi, 2003.
Selection of texts (download from teacher’s website)

Filmography under analysis
Rufufú (I soliti ignoti) di M. Monicelli
Bienvenido Mr Marshall di Luis García Berlanga
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Donne sull’orlo di una crisi di nervi) di P. Almodóvar
Hable con ella di P. Almodóvar

3) Reference documents
Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las lenguas (disponibile online: https://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/biblioteca_ele/marco/cvc_mer.pdf)

Plan curricular del Instituto Cervantes (disponibile on line: https://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/biblioteca_ele/plan_curricular/)

Un Quadro di Riferimento per gli Approcci Plurali alle Lingue e alle Culture (disponibile online:https://carap.ecml.at/Portals/11/documents/CARAP-documents/CARAP_Italien_sur_Site.pdf?ver=2014-05-08-160235-867)

Compulsory supplementary materials for non-attendants will be indicated during the interview with the teachers.

The part of the course taking place in Semester 1 will focus on the transcription and speech analysis of web-mediated hybrid textual genres for scientific or semi-scientific popularisation.
By the end of the course, students will have refined their linguistic-communicative skills in the two varieties (PE and PB).
These knowledge and skills will be acquired through regular participation in lectures and other supplementary teaching activities.

Cortelazzo, M. 1994, Lingue speciali, Unipress, Padova.
De Rosa GL e Morleo F. in corso di stampa, Os Marcadores Discursivos no Discurso Especializado.
De Rosa GL 2020, O Discurso Científico mediado pela web. Legendar videoverbetes entre tipologias textuais, línguas especiais e problemáticas tradutórias, Lingue Linguaggi, pp. 29-45, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22381/18823.
De Rosa GL 2020, Características da fala acadêmica monitorada no Brasil: os videoverbetes da ENCIDIS entre PB técnico-científico e PB neo-standard, Cultura Latinoamerica, Universidad Católica de Bogotá.
Gualdo, R e Telve S. 2012, Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Carocci, Roma.
Gotti M. 1991, I Linguaggi Specialistici. Caratteristiche linguistiche e criteri pragmatici, La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
Mariani B. 2018, Linguagem, conhecimento e tecnologia: a Enciclopédia Audiovisual da Análise do Discurso e áreas afins, in “Linguagem & Ensino” v.21, n. esp., VIII SENALE, pp. 359-393.
Mariani B 2020, La produzione e la circolazione del sapere su piattaforme digitali: lo status del portoghese brasiliano in un’enciclopedia digitale sottotitolata, Lingue Linguaggi (2020), pp. 13-28, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22388/18832.
Sabatini F. 1990, Rigidità-esplicitezza vs elasticità-implicitezza: possibili parametri massimi per uma tipologia dei testi, in Skytte G. e Sabatini F., Linguistica testuale comparativa, Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 141-172.
Sobrero A. A. 2006, Lingue Speciali, in Sobrero, A. A. (ed.), Introduzione all'italiano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi. Vol. 2, Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 237-277.

The part of the course taking place in Semester 1 will focus on the transcription and speech analysis of web-mediated hybrid textual genres for scientific or semi-scientific popularisation.
By the end of the course, students will have refined their linguistic-communicative skills in the two varieties (PE and PB).
These knowledge and skills will be acquired through regular participation in lectures and other supplementary teaching activities.

Cortelazzo, M. 1994, Lingue speciali, Unipress, Padova.
De Rosa GL e Morleo F. in corso di stampa, Os Marcadores Discursivos no Discurso Especializado.
De Rosa GL 2020, O Discurso Científico mediado pela web. Legendar videoverbetes entre tipologias textuais, línguas especiais e problemáticas tradutórias, Lingue Linguaggi, pp. 29-45, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22381/18823.
De Rosa GL 2020, Características da fala acadêmica monitorada no Brasil: os videoverbetes da ENCIDIS entre PB técnico-científico e PB neo-standard, Cultura Latinoamerica, Universidad Católica de Bogotá.
Gualdo, R e Telve S. 2012, Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Carocci, Roma.
Gotti M. 1991, I Linguaggi Specialistici. Caratteristiche linguistiche e criteri pragmatici, La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
Mariani B. 2018, Linguagem, conhecimento e tecnologia: a Enciclopédia Audiovisual da Análise do Discurso e áreas afins, in “Linguagem & Ensino” v.21, n. esp., VIII SENALE, pp. 359-393.
Mariani B 2020, La produzione e la circolazione del sapere su piattaforme digitali: lo status del portoghese brasiliano in un’enciclopedia digitale sottotitolata, Lingue Linguaggi (2020), pp. 13-28, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22388/18832.
Sabatini F. 1990, Rigidità-esplicitezza vs elasticità-implicitezza: possibili parametri massimi per uma tipologia dei testi, in Skytte G. e Sabatini F., Linguistica testuale comparativa, Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 141-172.
Sobrero A. A. 2006, Lingue Speciali, in Sobrero, A. A. (ed.), Introduzione all'italiano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi. Vol. 2, Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 237-277.

The course has a twofold strand, centering on the one hand on the translation of specialized discourse and on the other of literary texts. Common to both strands is a reflection on the linguistic and textual features of the source texts, which is meant as a preliminary step to translation, while allowing students to consolidate and expand their language competence.
The specialized discourse strand will address the characteristics of Language for Special Purposes across domains, from a contrastive perspective, focusing on lexical and terminological aspects, as well as on structural aspects, at the syntactic and textual level. Such linguistic features will be set in relation with the register and the genre to which a text belongs. To this purpose, corpus linguistics will be introduced, both as a resource for computer-assisted translation and as a tool for register and genre analysis. Texts will be taken from a variety of discursive domains, including scientific discourse and popularization, institutional, and legal discourse. Theoretical-methodological reflection will be intertwined with translation practice, including the use and construction of specialized corpora.
The literary translation strand will frame translation in contemporary theoretical and methodological perspectives, with special regard for the concepts of translation as a form of rewriting, and of cultural adaptation. The focus, however, will be on the practice of translation with a solid anchorage to linguistics. Particular attention will be given to the stylistic peculiarities of the source text, and especially to the interaction of the linguistic code with other aspects of narratives. Starting form the analysis of existing translations, and, relying on competences acquired in the first year, students’ awareness will be raised with regard to the recognition of linguistic varieties and register, and the strategies that can be used for their transposition in the target language and context. Different genres will be addressed, all falling in the domain of creative writing: narrative and its para-texts, theatre, audiovisual products.

Cavagnoli Franca 2017. La traduzione letteraria anglofona. Il proprio e l'altrui - English e englishes. Gli autori postcoloniali di lingua inglese. Milano: Hoepli.

Giuliana Garzone 2020. Specialized communication and popularization in English. Roma: Carocci Editore.

Osimo Bruno 2006. La traduzione saggistica dall'inglese. Guida pratica con versioni guidate e glossario. Milano: Hoepli.

The course involves the analysis of vocabulary and stylistics of modern Russian literary texts in connection with the problems of Russian-Italian translation.

The course material will be provided during the course.


Daniela Bonciani. Bliže k Rossii. M. 2004
Laskareva E. Progulki po russkoj leksike. SPb. 2018
Dobrovolskaja J. Il russo: l'ABC della traduzione. Hoepli 2004

"De risas y lágrimas: The Two Faces of Golden Dramaturgy"
This course focuses on the study of the tragic and comic codes in a selected corpus of Spanish theatrical texts of the Golden Age. Students will be provided with the methodological tools for dramaturgical analysis, focusing in particular on the study of the relationship between the dramatic text and its realisation in some contemporary productions. A second part of the course will deal with practical and theoretical reflections on the didactics of literature, with special regard to the use of theatre in a didactic perspective.
The course provides an initial analytical approach to Golden Theatre texts, which will be opened up to the perspective of textual criticism in the course "En el taller del editor de textos" in the second semester.

TEXTS
• Lope de Vega, La moza de cántaro (digital edition: https://artelope.uv.es/biblioteca/textosAL/AL0754_LaMozaDeCantaro.php; or the edition edited by J. M. Díez Borque, La moza de cántaro, Colección Austral);
• Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, La verdad sospechosa (edition by F. Antonucci in: Il teatro dei Secoli d’oro, coord. M. G. Profeti, Milano, Bompiani, 2014, vol. II; pdf provided by the teacher)
• Lope de Vega, El castigo sin venganza (digital edition: https://artelope.uv.es/biblioteca/textosAL/AL0551_ElCastigoSinVenganza.php)
• Calderón de la Barca, El pintor de su deshonra (edition by E. Marcello in Il teatro dei Secoli d’oro, coord. M. G. Profeti, Milano, Bompiani, 2014, vol. II; pdf provided by the teacher)

The aim of the course is to highlight the extent to which women's bodies and corporalities that do not conform to gender norms have always been a territory in constant re-conquest, as in Latin America. The study of the selected texts is an opportunity to reflect on how some recently published novels have been able to accommodate in the literary space the social, political and cultural instances that on the contemporary horizon deal with the themes of gender violence, dissident identities and sexual expression in the ethnic-social system.

• Reyes, Dolores. Cometierra, Sigilo, Buenos Aires, 2020.
• Lozano, Brenda. Brujas, Alfaguara, 2020.
• Sosa Villada, Camila. Las malas, Tusquets (2019), 2020.


Non-attending students should contact the professor at least two months prior to the exam.

Additional text for non-attending students:
Mataix, Remedios. “La escritura (casi) invisible. Narradoras hispanoamericanas del siglo XIX”, Anales de Literatura Española, Universidad de Alicante, n. 16, 2003. (pp. 5-47). [on line] https://ale.ua.es/article/view/2003-n16-la-escritura-casi-invisible-narradoras-hispanoamericanas-del-siglo-xix

The module deals with the diffusion of Hispanic-American fiction in Italy with particular attention to the problems of translation of American variants of Spanish and Italian publishing policies.

J. L. Borges, Ficciones, Madrid, Alianza, 2004 (trad. it. Finzioni, Milano, Adelphi, 2004).
H. Bustos Domeq, Seis problemas para Don Isidro Parodi http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/textos_diversos/Borges-Bioy%20Casares,Seis%20problemas%20para%20don%20Isidro%20Parodi.pdf)
J. Rulfo, Pedro Páramo (http://web.seducoahuila.gob.mx/biblioweb/upload/Juan%20Rulfo%20-%20Pedro%20P%C3%A1ramo.pdf)

From Literary Text to Performance in Theatre, Cinema and Beyond: Shakespeare and Jane Austen

The programme aims to explore the adaptive processes through which a literary text can be performed in a variety of media. Chosen case studies will be Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Primary Texts
William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ed by John Wilders, Arden
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, ed by James Kinsley, Oxford University Pres

Secondary Texts
Domenico Lovascio (ed), Antony and Cleopatra. A Critical Reader, Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
Maddalena Pennacchia, Adattamento, appropriazione, condivisione di un classico: Pride and Prejudice di Jane Austen
More references will be given over the period when the module is delivered and uploaded on Moodle

The course focuses on the relationship between literature and media (lithographs realized for the books, radio, film, gramophone, photography), in early twentieth-century Germany by analyzing the following aspects: 1. seeing the invisible: the fantastic and the occult in literature and film; 2. the genre of the novel and the new media; 3. experiments with literature and new media

Texts and films:

- Gustav Meyrink, Der Golem (Mit Illustrationen von Hugo Steiner-Prag)
- Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg
- Hermann Hesse, Der Steppenwolf
- Bertolt Brecht, Der Ozeanflug. Ein Radiolehrstück für Knaben und Mädchen / Das Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis
- Bertolt Brecht, Kriegsfiebel

- Stellan Rye, Der Student von Prag
- Carl Boese, Paul Wegener, Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam
- Arthur Robison, Schatten. Eine nächtliche Halluzination
- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Nosferatu. Eine Symphonie des Grauens

The course aims to examine the post-World War II phase in Germany through the analysis of some significant texts in the literature of the 20th century.

Anna Seghers, Das siebte Kreuz (La settima croce, BEAT)
Günther Grass, Die Blechtrommel, (Il tamburo di latta, Feltrinelli)
Heinrich Böll, Billiard um halb zehn (Biliardo alle nove e mezza, Mondadori)
Jurek Becker, Jakob der Lügner (Jakob il bugiardo, Feltrinelli)
Christa Wolf, Der geteilte Himmel (Il cielo diviso, E/O)
W.G. Seebald, Die Ausgewanderten (Gli Emigranti, Adelphi)

Testi critici:
Raul Calzoni, La letteratura tedesca del secondo dopoguerra. L’età delle macerie e della ricostruzione (1945-1961), Carocci, Roma 2013.
Simone Costagli, Alessandro Fambrini, Matteo Galli, Stefania Sbarra, Guida alla Letteratura tedesca. Percorsi e protagonisti 1945-2017, Odoya, Bologna 2018.
Ulteriori testi critici saranno indicato durante il corso.
Per i non frequentanti si consiglia vivamente di mettersi in contatto con la docente.

The course will deal with translation in its relationship with adaptation practices, focusing in particular on advertising texts, tourist texts and comics. By analysing the verbal-iconic strategies adopted from time to time, the course aims to show how the "lettre-image" connivance is responsible for the effects of meaning intended for the addressee/reader who is, at the same time, a "spectator".

- J.M. Adam & M. Bonhomme, L'argumentation publicitaire. Rhétorique de l'éloge et de la persuasion, Armand Colin 2005 (pp. 3-67; pp. 89-107)
- R. Barthes, Rhétorique de l'image, "Communications", 4, 1964, pp. 40-51
URL: https://www.persee.fr/doc/comm_0588-8018_1964_num_4_1_1027
- C. Kerbrat-Orecchioni, “Suivez le guide! Les modalités de l'invitation au voyage dans les guides touristiques », in F. Baider, M. Burger & D. Goutsos (éds), La communication touristique. Approches discursives de l'identité et de l'altérité, L'Harmattam 2004, pp. 133-150
- S. Moirand, « Le même et l'autre dans les guides de voyage au XXIè siècle », in F. Baider, M. Burger & D. Goutsos (éds), La communication touristique. Approches discursives de l'identité et de l'altérité, L'Harmattam 2004, pp. 151-172.

For the volet on the bande dessinée:

-G. Tallarico, « Stratégies culturelles dans la traduction des livres pour enfants: le cas de Geronimo Stilton », Parallèles, 27, avril 2015, pdf scaricabile all’indirizzo : https://iris.univr.it/handle/11562/817367#.YG22Px8zbIU

-N. Celotti, « La bande dessinée : art reconnu, traduction méconnue », in J. Podeur (a cura di), Tradurre il fumetto, Liguori Editore 2012, pp. 1-12.

-A. Patierno, « Un cas d’adaptation en BD : Le Petit Prince de Saint-Exupéry », in J. Podeur (a cura di), Tradurre il fumetto, Liguori Editore 2012, pp. 29-38.

-J. Muller, “Proust en BD”, Cahiers de narratologie, 31, 2016, URL : https://journals.openedition.org/narratologie/7604

The part of the course taking place in Semester 1 will focus on the transcription and speech analysis of web-mediated hybrid textual genres for scientific or semi-scientific popularisation.
By the end of the course, students will have refined their linguistic-communicative skills in the two varieties (PE and PB).
These knowledge and skills will be acquired through regular participation in lectures and other supplementary teaching activities.

Cortelazzo, M. 1994, Lingue speciali, Unipress, Padova.
De Rosa GL e Morleo F. in corso di stampa, Os Marcadores Discursivos no Discurso Especializado.
De Rosa GL 2020, O Discurso Científico mediado pela web. Legendar videoverbetes entre tipologias textuais, línguas especiais e problemáticas tradutórias, Lingue Linguaggi, pp. 29-45, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22381/18823.
De Rosa GL 2020, Características da fala acadêmica monitorada no Brasil: os videoverbetes da ENCIDIS entre PB técnico-científico e PB neo-standard, Cultura Latinoamerica, Universidad Católica de Bogotá.
Gualdo, R e Telve S. 2012, Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Carocci, Roma.
Gotti M. 1991, I Linguaggi Specialistici. Caratteristiche linguistiche e criteri pragmatici, La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
Mariani B. 2018, Linguagem, conhecimento e tecnologia: a Enciclopédia Audiovisual da Análise do Discurso e áreas afins, in “Linguagem & Ensino” v.21, n. esp., VIII SENALE, pp. 359-393.
Mariani B 2020, La produzione e la circolazione del sapere su piattaforme digitali: lo status del portoghese brasiliano in un’enciclopedia digitale sottotitolata, Lingue Linguaggi (2020), pp. 13-28, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22388/18832.
Sabatini F. 1990, Rigidità-esplicitezza vs elasticità-implicitezza: possibili parametri massimi per uma tipologia dei testi, in Skytte G. e Sabatini F., Linguistica testuale comparativa, Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 141-172.
Sobrero A. A. 2006, Lingue Speciali, in Sobrero, A. A. (ed.), Introduzione all'italiano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi. Vol. 2, Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 237-277.

The part of the course taking place in Semester 1 will focus on the transcription and speech analysis of web-mediated hybrid textual genres for scientific or semi-scientific popularisation.
By the end of the course, students will have refined their linguistic-communicative skills in the two varieties (PE and PB).
These knowledge and skills will be acquired through regular participation in lectures and other supplementary teaching activities.

Cortelazzo, M. 1994, Lingue speciali, Unipress, Padova.
De Rosa GL e Morleo F. in corso di stampa, Os Marcadores Discursivos no Discurso Especializado.
De Rosa GL 2020, O Discurso Científico mediado pela web. Legendar videoverbetes entre tipologias textuais, línguas especiais e problemáticas tradutórias, Lingue Linguaggi, pp. 29-45, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22381/18823.
De Rosa GL 2020, Características da fala acadêmica monitorada no Brasil: os videoverbetes da ENCIDIS entre PB técnico-científico e PB neo-standard, Cultura Latinoamerica, Universidad Católica de Bogotá.
Gualdo, R e Telve S. 2012, Linguaggi specialistici dell'italiano, Carocci, Roma.
Gotti M. 1991, I Linguaggi Specialistici. Caratteristiche linguistiche e criteri pragmatici, La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
Mariani B. 2018, Linguagem, conhecimento e tecnologia: a Enciclopédia Audiovisual da Análise do Discurso e áreas afins, in “Linguagem & Ensino” v.21, n. esp., VIII SENALE, pp. 359-393.
Mariani B 2020, La produzione e la circolazione del sapere su piattaforme digitali: lo status del portoghese brasiliano in un’enciclopedia digitale sottotitolata, Lingue Linguaggi (2020), pp. 13-28, http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/22388/18832.
Sabatini F. 1990, Rigidità-esplicitezza vs elasticità-implicitezza: possibili parametri massimi per uma tipologia dei testi, in Skytte G. e Sabatini F., Linguistica testuale comparativa, Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 141-172.
Sobrero A. A. 2006, Lingue Speciali, in Sobrero, A. A. (ed.), Introduzione all'italiano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi. Vol. 2, Laterza, Roma-Bari, pp. 237-277.

Is there currently a 'theory of translation'? Surely there are many theoretical approaches to this activity, often strongly divergent. The class offers a diachronic and synchronic overview of the different paths of translation theory and also presents dictionaries and translation tools. You will deal with the translation from German into Italian of different textual varieties. There will be periodic verifications with in-depth analysis of individual essays.

Course Materials
• Radegundis Stolze, Übersetzungstheorien. Eine Einführung, Narr, Tübingen 2018 (or other editions).

The course involves the analysis of vocabulary and stylistics of modern Russian literary texts in connection with the problems of Russian-Italian translation.

The course material will be provided during the course.


Daniela Bonciani. Bliže k Rossii. M. 2004
Laskareva E. Progulki po russkoj leksike. SPb. 2018
Dobrovolskaja J. Il russo: l'ABC della traduzione. Hoepli 2004

The course aims to explore the notion of style through theoretical and textual analyzes on texts from French literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Attending students will work on texts and bibliography provided in class; non-attending students will instead follow the program indicated here.

L. Spitzer, Saggi di critica stilistica. Maria di Francia, Racine, Saint-Simon, Firenze, Sansoni, 2004.
E. Bordas, “Style”. Un mot et des discours, Paris, Kimé, 2008.
M. Macé, Styles, Critique de nos formes de vie, Paris, Gallimard, 2016.

Poetry and critical poetics of the French extrême contemporain.

The course will be divided into three parts. Following a chronological order, each of these will take into consideration, in order: Denis Roche, Emmanuel Hocquard, Nathalie Quintane.

Poetry:
- Denis Roche, Éros énergumène, Paris, Gallimard, 2001.
- Emmanuel Hocquard, Un privé à Tanger, Paris, P.O.L, 1987 (versione tascabile: Paris, Seuil, 2014).
- Nathalie Quintane, Remarques / Osservazioni, traduzione di Michele Zaffarano, Colorno, Tiellecì («Benway Series»), 2015.


Critical essays:
- Jean-Marie Gleize, Éloge de la véhémence, Paris, Seuil, 2019.
- Emmanuel Hocquard. La poésie mode d’emploi, sous la direction de N. Koble, A. Lang, M. Murat, J.-F. Puff, Paris, Le Presses du réel, 2020.
- Nathalie Quintane, sous la direction de Benoît Auclerc, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2015.

The course aims to familiarize students with the main problems faced by anyone wishing to create a critical edition of a golden theatrical text, and will have a markedly laboratorial character. The activities that will be carried out require the application of skills already acquired in the course of study (ability to use historical dictionaries and corpora, knowledge of the history of the language, literary knowledge, writing skills in Spanish) and encourage the acquisition of new skills (history of the ancient book, ecdotics, metrics).

TEXTS
Lope de Vega, La moza de cántaro (edizione digitale: https://artelope.uv.es/biblioteca/textosAL/AL0754_LaMozaDeCantaro.php; oppure l’edizione a cura di J. M. Díez Borque, La moza de cántaro, Colección Austral);
Lope de Vega, El castigo sin venganza (edizione digitale: https://artelope.uv.es/biblioteca/textosAL/AL0551_ElCastigoSinVenganza.php)
P. Calderón de la Barca, El pintor de su deshonra (edizione di E. E. Marcello in Il teatro dei Secoli d’oro, coord. M. G. Profeti, Milano, Bompiani, 2014, vol. II; .pdf messo a disposizione dalla docente);
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, La verdad sospechosa (edizione di F. Antonucci in: Il teatro dei Secoli d’oro, coord. M. G. Profeti, Milano, Bompiani, 2014, vol. II; .pdf messo a disposizione dalla docente).
CRÍTICA y METODOLOGÍA
Per il punto 1):
• M. G. Profeti, “Tradición impresa y voluntad del autor: el problema del teatro áureo”, en: Filologia dei testi a stampa: area iberica (Actas del Simposio, Pescara, 20-22 de noviembre de 2003), ed. Patrizia Botta, Modena, Mucchi Editore, 2005, pp. 57-72 (.pdf messo a disposizione dalla docente);
• F. Rico, El texto del Quijote (cap. I, “Cómo se hacía un libro en el Siglo de Oro”, pp. 53-93).
Other critical materials eventually indicated by the teacher.

The module deals with the diffusion of Hispanic-American fiction in Italy with particular attention to the problems of translation of American variants of Spanish and Italian publishing policies.

J. L. Borges, Ficciones, Madrid, Alianza, 2004 (trad. it. Finzioni, Milano, Adelphi, 2004).
H. Bustos Domeq, Seis problemas para Don Isidro Parodi http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/textos_diversos/Borges-Bioy%20Casares,Seis%20problemas%20para%20don%20Isidro%20Parodi.pdf)
J. Rulfo, Pedro Páramo (http://web.seducoahuila.gob.mx/biblioweb/upload/Juan%20Rulfo%20-%20Pedro%20P%C3%A1ramo.pdf)

The course aims to reflect on the racial issue in Brazil in the decades between the 19th and 20th centuries. The analysis of some novels and short stories will highlight how the idea of nation and the ideal of order and progress is deeply linked to racial theories developed after the abolition of slavery (1888).

C. Cattarulla – G. de Marchis (a cura di), Apocalisse. Alle origini della fantascienza latinoamericana, Roma, Nova Delphi Libri, 2014
J. Amado, Gabriela, cravo e canela (qualunque edizione)
Monteiro Lobato, O Presidente Negro (qualunque edizione)
Lima Barreto, Clara dos Anjos (qualunque edizione)
A. Azevedo, O Cortiço (qualunque edizione)
Inglez de Sousa, O Missionário (qualunque edizione)

K. L. Caldwell, «A foot in the kitchen»: Brazilian Discourses on Race, Hybridity and National Identity, in Negras in Brazil, New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2007, pp. 27-49;
A. Candido, De cortiço a cortiço, nel vol. O Discurso e a cidade, São Paulo-Rio de Janeiro, Ouro sobre Azul, 2004, pp. 105-129;
V. Ribeiro Corossacz, Razzismo, meticciato, democrazia razziale. Le politiche della razza in Brasile, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino Editore, 2005;
G. M. Fredrickson, Breve storia del razzismo, Roma, Donzelli, 2005;
L. Moritz Schwarcz, O Espetáculo das Raças. Cientistas, instituições e questão racial no Brasil (1870-1930);

The course aims to reflect on the racial issue in Brazil in the first half of the 20th century. Starting from the analysis of Gilberto Freyre's theories we will try to grasp the evolution from the politics of “branqueamento” to the myth of racial democracy.

Gilberto Freyre, Casa Grande e Sanzala, São Paulo, Editora Global, 2006;
Lélia Gonzalez, Racismo e sexismo na cultura brasileira, “Revista Ciências Sociais Hoje”, 1984, pp. 223-244;
L. Jaccoud, Racismo e República: o debate sobre o branqueamento e a discriminação racial no Brasil, in As políticas públicas e a desigualdade racial no Brasil. 120 ano após a abolição, Brasília, IPEA, 2008 pp. 45-64;
Djamila Ribeiro, O lugar de fala, Polén Livros, 2019 (tr.it. Il luogo della parola, Alessandria, Capovolte, 2020)
Stefan Zweig, Brasile. Terra del futuro, Roma, Elliot, 2014;

Island narratives and the rhetoric of nostalgia

In this course we will explore the island trope in a selection of texts, from R.L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island to Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place. In these narratives, the island features at times as a place of adventure, at other times as a theatre where humanity is tested, as a projection of psychotic fantasies, as an artificial paradise, or as a place of violence and squalor. In its latest, astonishing metamorphosis, the island has become a gigantic, floating garbage patch. In this way, islands continue to inspire the imagination of both writers and readers.

Primary Texts:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883)
William Golding, The Lord of the Flies (1954)
V. S. Naipaul, The Middle Passage (1962)
Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971)
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (1988)

Films to be announced.

The course is focused on the Hollywood Novel, a subgenre of twentieth century American novel, including writers, such as Fitzgerald and West, who worked for cinema as screenplayers and later reworked their experience in works that are not biographical but metaphorically represent American life through Hollywood lenses. Themes will be discussed related to alienation and mass-production. Texts will allow a different discussion about literature and cinema shifting from adaptation to reshaping literary language in cinematic terms. A recent TV series and an older movie about the end of classical Hollywood will be shown and discussed during the extra academic classes.

Prof.. Fred L. Gardaphe Corsi di laurea magistrale SSD L-Lin/11

20710480 - American Fictions: Plots and Counterplots

2nd year MA Languages and Literatures for Teaching and Translation

(36 hours – 6 CFU; meeting twice a week – each class is 2 hours)
This course is focused on the way minority writers in the U.S.A. fashion their novels, stories and poetry in relation to what has been considered as traditonal and canonical U.S. American literature. Through the example of Italian American writers, students will become aware of the way minority cultures have impacted the definitions of U.S. American literature through realism, naturalism, modernism and postmodernism.

Novels

Christ in Concrete (Pietro di Donato, 1939)

Paper Fish (Tina DeRosa, 1980)

Short Fiction in From the Margin

“Nonna,” (Tony Ardizzone)

“Drowning,” (Mary Bucci Bush)

“Morra, Amore,” (Fred L. Gardaphe)

“The Last Godfather,” (Anthony Valerio)

“My Grandfather’s Suit,” (Lisa Ruffolo)

Poetry in From the Margin

M. Gillan

L. Ferlinghetti

D. di Prima

D. Gioseffi

This course is focused on the concept of the Great American Novel (GAN), analyzed through four novels which have aspired to become GAN. Students will work on the historical and theoretical issue that have moulded this national aim as well as on the variations that hasve been brought along in the literary canon of the US.

The following description is related to the course held by Prof. Gardaphe (visiting professor, Queens University)
This course is focused on the issue of multiculturalism in U.S. American literary studies, a movement that has reshaped the notion of the U.S. American canon. The course examines how socio-political movements in U.S. American history have affected what is studied in U.S. American schools. The novels chosen for this course reflect those changes from a variety of ethnic and racial perspectives.

The following text are for the section taught by Prof. Gardaphe

Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)

Ghost Dance (Carol Maso)

Mules and Men (Zora Neal Hurston)

In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu (Tony Ardizzone)

Modern and contemporary Russian poetry (XIX-XXI centuries)

Students will analyse and translate poetical texts of different authors