Title of the course: Verga's drama in the background of the Veristic poetics

Description of the course: The cours aims to the analysis and to the comment of the Atti unici (Unique acts) of Giovanni Verga and will propose a study of contextualization of the dramatic works in the whole background of the drama production between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth century and of the theories that develop in Italy and in europe in this period. Students are invited to an active partecipation

Bibliography: The essential bibliography will be provided during the course. Texts and editions that are difficult to find will be available in photocopies.

Title of the course: Italian narration bewteen Nineteenth and Twentith century

Description of the course: The course aims to present an image of Italian narrative between Italy's Unification (1861) and the first World War (1915) though the reading of some of the most important authors of this period: Verga, De Roberto, d’Annunzio, Svevo e Pirandello.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

-Giovanni Verga, Tutte le novelle, Einaudi
-Federico De Roberto, La sorte, Sellerio
-Federico De Roberto, Processi verbali, Sellerio
-Federico De Roberto, La paura e altri racconti di guerra, Garzanti
-Gabriele d’Annunzio, Novelle, Garzanti
-Italo Svevo, I racconti, Garzanti
-Luigi Pirandello, Racconti fantastici, Einaudi
-Fantastico italiano, a cura di Costanza Melani, BUR (A SELECTION)

STUDIES:
-Sergio Luzzatto e Gabriele Pedullà (a cura di), Atlante della letteratura italiana, Einaudi, Torino,2012, vol. 3 (from 1861 on)
- Further material will be provided in photocopies

ADDITIONAL TEXTS FOR STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND THE COURSE:
-Sergio Luzzatto e Gabriele Pedullà (a cura di), Atlante della letteratura italiana, Einaudi, Torino 2012, vol. 3 (also from 1815 to 1861)

Title of the course: Pirandello: novel and drama writer

Description of the course: The course aims to retrace Pirandello's narrative evolution, starting from his earlier novels (L'esclusa and Il turno) and the earlier tales and arriving to his latest novel, Uno nessuno e centomila and to the surrealistic writing of the Thirties. In addition the course will take into consideration some drama works, such as da Così è (se vi pare), Sei personaggi and the unfinished I giganti della montagna, which will be investigated in their original character and in their innovative dramaturgical features.

Bibliography:

Pirandello's Whole work is avalible in the Mondatori's collection «Meridiani», in the following volumes: Tutti i romanzi, a cura di G. Macchia con la collaborazione di M. Costanzo, 2 voll., Milano, Mondadori,1973; Novelle per un anno, a cura di M. Costanzo, Premessa di G. Macchia, 3 voll., 6 tomi, ivi, 1985-1990; Maschere nude, a cura di A. d’Amico, premessa di G. Macchia, 4 voll., ivi, 1986-2007 (vol. III e vol. IV a cura di A. d’Amico con la collaborazione di A. Tinterri. Il vol. IV comprende, inoltre, le Opere teatrali in dialetto, a cura di A. Varvaro, con un’introduzione di A. Camilleri, dal titolo Una storia di contraddizioni e ripensamenti); Saggi e interventi, a cura e con un saggio introduttivo di F. Taviani e una testimonianza di A. Pirandello, ivi, 2006.

A re-edition of pirandello's poetic production is available in Tutte le poesie, introduzione di F. Nicolosi, note di M. Lo Vecchio-Musti, Milano, Mondadori, («Oscar»), 1982.

a useful collection of interviews to Pirandello is in Pirandello. «Parole da dire, uomo, agli altri uomini», a cura di I. Pupo, pref. di N. Borsellino, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2002.


Critical text for consultation:
A biography of Pirandello can be found in G. Giudice, Luigi Pirandello, Torino, UTET, 1963
Critical essays for a general framework of the author:
- L. Lugnani, Pirandello. Letteratura e teatro, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1970
- G. Debenedetti, Il romanzo del Novecento, Milano, Garzanti, 1971
- P. Puppa, Fantasmi contro giganti (Scena e immaginario in Pirandello), Bologna, Patron, 1978
- U. Artioli, L’officina segreta di Pirandello, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1989
- N. Borsellino, Ritratto e immagini di Pirandello, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1991
- G. Mazzacurati, Pirandello nel romanzo europeo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1987; Id., Stagioni dell’Apocalisse. Verga, Pirandello e Svevo, Torino, Einaudi, 1998
- V. Spinazzola, Il romanzo antistorico, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1990
- R. Luporini, Pirandello, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999
- G. Macchia, Pirandello o la stanza della tortura, Milano, Mondadori, 2000
- A. R. Pupino, Pirandello:maschere e fantasmi, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2000; Id., La maschera e il nome. Interventi su Pirandello, Napoli, Liguori, 2001; Id., Pirandello o l’arte della dissonanza. Saggio sui romanzi, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2008; Id., Pirandello. Poetiche e pratiche di umorismo, ivi, 2013
- M. Guglielminetti, Pirandello, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2006
- S. Costa, Introduzione, in L. Pirandello, Opere, vol. I, Milano-Napoli, Ricciardi, 2015
- P. Frassica, Introduzione, in L. Pirandello, Opere, vol. II, Milano-Napoli, Ricciardi, 2015
- C. Vicentini, Pirandello. Il disagio del teatro, Venezia, Marsilio, 2016
- B. Alfonzetti, Pirandello. L’impossibile finale, Venezia, Marsilio, 2017

Sull’estetica di Pirandello:
- G. Andersson, Arte e teoria. Studi sulla poetica del giovane Luigi Pirandello, Stockolm, Almqvist e Wiksell, 1966
- C. Vicentini,L’estetica di Pirandello, Milano, Mursia, 1970

Su lingua e stile di Pirandello:
- B. Terracini, Le «Novelle per un anno» di Luigi Pirandello, in Id., Analisi stilistica. Teoria, storia, problemi, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1966, pp. 283-395
- M. Guglielminetti, Il soliloquio di Pirandello, in Id., Il romanzo del Novecento italiano. Strutture e sintassi, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1986, pp. 55-97
- G. Nencioni, Di scritto e di parlato. Discorsi linguistici, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1983, pp. 126-179; Id., Tra grammatica e retorica. Da Dante a Pirandello, Torino, Einaudi,1983, pp. 176-190 e 210-253; Id., Saggi e memorie, Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2000, pp. 237-247
- M. L. Altieri Biagi, La lingua in scena, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1980, pp. 162-221

Further indication will be provided during the course

Title of the course: The others' travel. Contemporary narrations of migration to Italy

Description of the course: In the last fifteen years the epochal phaenomenon of migrations has had literary repercussion also in Italy. The course will present some samples of this recent literary production in order to describe the different strategies of narration employed to give voice to the migratory experience.

- U. Fracassa, Patria e lettere. Per una critica della letteratura postcoloniale e migrante in Italia, Perrone, 2012

- 4 of the following texts:
• Wu ming 2, Antar Mohamed, Timira. Romanzo meticcio, Torino , Einaudi, 2012
• Paolo Di stefano, I pesci devono nuotare, Rizzoli, 2016
• Melania Mazzucco, Io sto con te. Storia di Brigitte, Einaudi 2017
• Eraldo Affinati, Vita di vita, Mondadori, 2014
• Erri De Luca, Solo andata. Righe che vanno troppo spesso a capo, Einaudi, 2005
• Marco Rovelli, La parte del fuoco, Barbès, 2012
• Giuseppe Catozzella, Non dirmi che hai paura, Feltrinelli, 2014
• Fabio Geda, Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli. Storia vera di Enaiatollah Akbari, Baldini&Castoldi, 2010
• Ibrahim Kane Annour, Elisa Cozzarini, Il deserto negli occhi, Nuovadimensione, 2013

Further indications will be provided during the course

Medieval English and German authors between Latin and the Vernacular languages

The aim of the course is to describe the medieval author's concern with the diffusion of knowledge  and his concept of vernacular literacy through the analysis of texts, prologues, letters coming from the Germanic milieu. Special attention will be paid to the relationship between Latin and the vernacular languages, to translation strategies, to the use of different languages and dialects within the same text and to the intended audience. 
The works analyzed will serve as the starting point for outlining the main literary and cultural conditions and circumstances in which they were produced and for widening and refining the students’ knowledge in the field of diachronic linguistics and textual tradition. Students will learn how to use the principle bibliographical instruments for carrying out individual or team investigations on semantic, morphological, syntactic and literary aspects.
Seminars, with students’ presentations of individual researches, will be held. Visits to historical libraries will be planned.

A selection of chapters and passages from the following texts:
- J. Wilcox, Ælfric's Prefaces. Durham Medieval Texts 1994
- O. Erdmann (ed.), Otfrids Evangelienbuch, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag 1973
- J.C. King - P.W. Tax, Notker Labeo. Die kleineren Schriften, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag 1996
- J. Wogan-Browne et alii, The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280–1520, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
- D. Crystal, The Stories of English, London : Penguin Books, 2004.
- A.M. Luiselli Fadda, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2010.

Further material will be given at the beginning of the course.
Students are advised to attend classes. Those who cannot attend them are requested to contact the teacher at the beginning of 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.

The course is scheduled for the second semester 2017-2018. Therefore, the following program is valid starting from the exam session of June-July 2018

Mandatory book:

- Adornetti I., 2018, Patologie del linguaggio e della comunicazione. Carocci, Roma [to be published by the end of March, 2018]

One book to choose among:

- Adornetti I., a cura di, 2015, Pragmatica del discorso e della conversazione, Corisco, Roma-Messina.
- Bambini V., 2017, Il cervello pragmatico, Carocci (Le Bussole), Roma.
- Cardella V., 2013, Perdersi nei giochi linguistici. Schizofrenia, filosofia del linguaggio e scienze cognitive, Corisco, Roma-Messina.
- Jakobson R., ed. it. 2006, Linguaggio infantile e afasia, Einaudi, Torino.
- Surian, L., 2002, Autismo. Indagini sullo sviluppo mentale, Laterza, Roma-Bari.

The course aims to study and to translate Spanish short and journalistic essay. Guided by the teacher, students will learn techniques of the expositive and argumentative writings in Spanish and translation’s strategies.

Teaching material (To be studied for the finals)
1) Textbooks and critical essays
Montolío, Estrella, Manual de escritura académica y profesional, I. Estrategias gramaticales, II. Estrategias discursivas, Barcelona, Ariel, 2014.
Arenas Cruz, María Elena, Hacia una teoría general del ensayo: construcción del texto ensayístico, Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 1997.
Other bibliographical references will be provided during the course.
2) Texts
Selection of texts (download from teacher’s website) for practice exercises and translation during the course.
Dispensa con un’antologia di testi (scaricabile dal sito) per le esercitazioni a lezione
Ortega y Gasset, España invertebrada y otros ensayos, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2014.
Vargas Llosa, Mario, Sables y utopías: visiones de América latina, Madrid, Punto de lectura, 2011.
Salinas, Pedro, El defensor, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2002.
Del Molino, Sergio, La España vacía, Madrid, Turner Libros, 2016.
3) Dictionaries
Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, Madrid, RAE, 2014 (23ª ed.)
Seco, Manuel; Ramos, Gabino; Andrés, Olimpia, Diccionario del Español Actual, Madrid, Santillana, 2006.
Diccionario CLAVE, Madrid, SM, 2006.
Diccionario de americanismos, Madrid, Santillana, 2010.

Additional mandatory material for students who have failed their final tests and for non attending students.
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.
Aullón de Haro, Pedro, «La teoría del ensayo en España entre Ortega y Gasset y Juan Chabás», Pensamiento literario español del siglo XX, 2, pp. 40-55. Disponibile online.
Bueno, Gustavo, «Sobre el concepto de ensayo», in El Padre Feijoo y su siglo, Actas del Simposio (Universidad de Oviedo, 28 de septiembre al 5 de octubre de 1964),
Oviedo, 1966, I, pp. 89-112. Disponibile online: http://www.filosofia.org/aut/gbm/1964ensa.htm
Ortega y Gasset, José, Meditación de Europa y otros ensayos, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2015.

The seventheenth French century. Montaigne and the personal whriting

G. Macchia, La Letteratura francese. Dal tramonto del Medioevo al Rinascimento, Rizzoli/BUR
Lagarde et Michard, XVIe siècle, Bordas
Montaigne, Essais, I,II,III, Folio
Montaigne Essais/Saggi, a cura di Fausta Garavini, Bompiani
J. Starobinski, Montaigne en mouvement, Gallimard
P. Carile, Dall'America all'Australia..., Biblink, CeSIF/Conferenze
Auerbach, Mimesis, vol. II, cap. I e II, Einaudi/PBE
S. Solmi, La salute di Montaigne, in S.S., Saggi di letteratura francese, vol. IV, t, I, Adelph

The course will examine, discuss and study some relevant Spanish literary works and cultural issues from the second half of the XXth century until our days, with special attention to the evolution of the novel.

Reading list:

• Luis Martín Santos, Tiempo de silencio, ed. Alfonso Rey, Barcelona, Crítica, 2000;
• Juan Marsé, Últimas tardes con Teresa, DeBolsillo, Barcelona, 2014;
• Javier Cercas, Anatomía de un instante, DeBolsillo, Barcelona, 2014;
• Antonio Muñoz Molina, Plenilunio, Seix Barral, Barcelona, 2013;
• Javier Marías, Todas las almas, DeBolsillo, Barcelona, 2010;
• Enrique Vila-Matas, Bartleby y compañía, DeBolsillo, Barcelona, 2014;
• Eduardo Mendoza, El misterio de la cripta embrujada, Booket, Barcelona, 2017.

We will study the most important poetic and novelistic experiments in early twentieth-century English-language modernism. We will focus in particular on the differences between British artists such as D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, on one hand, and the Irish and American poets as well as Joseph Conrad – an English writer but a transnational novelist.
Our purpose is not just to uncover the early signs of the dynamics that lead to a breakup of that which Antoine Compagnon has defined “le modèle de la philologie, pour laquelle l’unité langue-littérature-culture coïncide avec l’esprit d’une nation, ou d’une race”; or identify the starting point of the process which led eventually a number of non-British authors to transform what was up to that point a national literature; of even greater importance is to make students understand how much these experiments had in common with models being constructed on the Continent by those thinkers and linguists who founder literary theory, truly one of the great inventions of the 20th century.

Fiction
We will be moving back in time, in our investigation of the differences among the authors.
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927). Novel
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924). Novel
James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Novel
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900). Novel
D. H. Lawrence, “Odour of Chrysanthemums” (1911). Short story.

Reading List
Novels which will not be taught in depth during the course but that must be studied for the exam. Choose one among the following two:
D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (1913)
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)

Poems
Irish Airman, Leda and the Swan, September 1913, Easter 1916, Byzantium, Sailing to Byzantium,
T. S. Eliot, “Prufrock”, The Waste Land, “The Hollow Men”
Ezra Pound, “To Whistler, American”, “In a Station of the Metro”, “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”

Before classes start on February 28, the instructor will send to all the students included in the mailing list the poems by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound which we will study in class.

Essays
We will study some of the main theoretical statements set forth by the authors we will study. Among these:
Joseph Conrad, “Preface” to Almayer’s Folly (1895), The Nigger of the “Narcissus” (1897), and a selection from his letters.
T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919), “Ulysses, Order and Myth” (1923)
Ezra Pound, “Vorticism” (1914), “Henry James and Remy de Goncourt” (in Make It New, 1935)
Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction” (1919), “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1923), Reviews of Conrad’s novels, references to James Joyce.

Criticism and Historical Background
These are the first of a number of critical works that form an integral part of the program. More will follow during the course.
Kenner, Hugh, “The ‘Portrait’ in Perspective, The Kenyon Review, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Summer, 1948), pp. 361-381 (disponibile in pdf)
Rainey, Lawrence, Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture, London New Haven : Yale University Press, 1998 (collocazione, LLS/ H 0681 )
Vendler, Helen, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007 (collocazione, LLS/ 58 D 0537)

Some Versions of Disenchantment in American Poetry
Four poems by major American poets will offer the ground for a close reading of the poetic text, and an investigation of the growing disenchanted mood in American poetry in light of the impingement of the changing historical conditions. Translation studies will be under scrutiny.

Reading List
E. A. Poe, The Raven; T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men; Ezra Pound, Canto 45; Allen Ginsberg, Howl. The poems are available in anthologies of American poetry, and in the Selected/Collected Poems of the individual poets.

Criticism: The Cambridge Companions to the individual poets; on T. S. Eliot: Caterina Ricciardi, Una lettura di The Hollow Men di T. S. Eliot (Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2017); selected chapters from A New Literary History of America (ed. by Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors, Boston, Harvard University Press, 2009).

Title of the course: Ippolito Nievo's “Le confessioni di un italiano"

Description of the course: Information about the course will be communicated at the beginning of lessons

Bibliography:

- G.Leonelli, Istituzioni di Letteratura italiana, Roma, Studium, 2016
- I. Nievo, Le confessioni di un italiano, (una qualunque edizione)
- Further materila will be provided during the course

The texts and the dictionaries can be consulted at the Petrocchi humanistic library:

Scarpa F., La traduzione specializzata. Un approccio didattico professionale, Milano, Hoepli, 2008.
Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho, Gramática do português, editora Contexto, 2010 pagg 169-242 (the copy machines can be found at the shop right in front of the main entrance, in Via Ostiense)
Mateus, M. H. M. et al, Gramática da língua portuguesa, Lisboa, Caminho 2003.


Dictionaries:
Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea, Academia das Ciências, Lisboa, Verbo, 2001.
Novo Dicionário Aurélio da Língua Portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Nova Fronteira, 2004.
Mea, G., Dicionário de Italiano-Português e Italiano-Português, Zanichelli Porto Editora, 2 VV., 2010

Translation: from theory to practice

In order to achieve the formative aims, the course will be divided into two parts: the first part will deal with more theoretical issues while the second will be concerned with more practical aspects and will include laboratory work.

- S. Borutti, U. Heidmann, , La Babele in cui viviamo. Traduzioni, riscritture, culture, Bollati Boringhieri 2012 (Introduzione e capitoli 2, 4, 5)
- P. Ricoeur, Sur la traduction, Bayard 2004
-J. Risset, Peut-on traduire les géants?, « Mezzavoce », 1, 1992
- A. Prete, In compagnia di Baudelaire. Traduzione, dialogo, imitazione, «Cahiers d’études romanes», 24, 2011, URL: http://etudesromanes.revues.org/1068
- L. Santone, Traduire le « vertige de l’expansion ». Sur Madame Bovary, « Flaubert. Revue critique et génétique », 14, 2015, URL : https://flaubert.revues.org/ (solo per il II anno)
- L. Santone, Traduction, rythme, mémoire. Sur la traduction de la Divine Comédie de Jacqueline Risset, « Il Confronto Letterario », 2016 (sous presse)

The course focuses on aspects of literary/non literary translation, combining translation practice with translation theory and history.
The first part of the course (Unit 1) will deal with the history and theory of translation within the Western tradition, with special focus on a) the cultural status of translation in past and present times, b) the contribution of translations in the reception of texts, c) contemporary translation studies.
Unit 2 will focus on the process and product of translation, in the intent to encourage experimental reflection on the act of translating and on problems of linguistic, stylistic and cultural difference. Close textual analysis will set the basis for further discussion about writing and translation strategies.
Translation practice of literary/non literary texts, active participation in the discussion forums, and presentation of individual projects on which the students have chosen to work will be an integral part of the course and of the final assessment.

Students will be provided with case studies and readings for discussions. All materials produced during class and additional readings will be made available on the Moodle Platform (protected area dedicated to the course) at the end of each session.

The class, supported by the German language courses, offers a comparison between two different and complementary aspects of contemporary translation studies: the functionalist, communicative and holistic one by Hans G. Hönig and the 'literal' one by Antoine Berman. The theory lessons will be alternated with translation exercises from German into Italian in which different textual varieties will be dealt with. The analysis of individual translation of the students will be an opportunity to compare theoretical discourse with practice.

Hans G. Hönig, Konstruktives Übersetzen, 3. Aufl., Stauffenburg 2010;
Antoine Berman, La traduzione e la lettera o l’albergo nella lontananza, Quodlibet 2003.

The course will examine, discuss and study some relevant Spanish literary works and cultural issues from the second half of the XXth century until our days, with special attention to the evolution of the novel.

Reading list:

• Luis Martín Santos, Tiempo de silencio, ed. Alfonso Rey, Barcelona, Crítica, 2000;
• Juan Marsé, Últimas tardes con Teresa, DeBolsillo, Barcelona, 2014;
• Javier Cercas, Anatomía de un instante, DeBolsillo, Barcelona, 2014;
• Antonio Muñoz Molina, Plenilunio, Seix Barral, Barcelona, 2013;
• Javier Marías, Todas las almas, DeBolsillo, Barcelona, 2010;
• Enrique Vila-Matas, Bartleby y compañía, DeBolsillo, Barcelona, 2014;
• Eduardo Mendoza, El misterio de la cripta embrujada, Booket, Barcelona, 2017.

Gli studi semiotici e antropologici hanno messo in evidenza come attraverso il sistema di comunicazione del cibo si definiscano (o autodefiniscano) rapporti di potere, distinzioni tra classi sociali, questioni di genere, vincoli tra popoli lontani, identità nazionali, locali e meticce, pratiche religiose o schemi dottrinali e finanche tradizioni letterarie. Il modulo esplora alcune di queste tematiche attraverso testi che appartengono ormai anche alla tradizione culinaria latinoamericana oltre che a quella letteraria.

C. Cattarulla (a cura di), Identità culinarie in Sudamerica, Roma, Nova Delphi, 2017;
M. Montanari, Il cibo come cultura, Milano-Bari, Laterza, 2004;

Modulo – A
L. Esquivel, Como agua para chocolate [1989] qualunque edizione (ultima ed. italiana Dolce come il cioccolato, Milano, Garzanti, 2015);
A. Morino, Il libro di cucina di Juana Inés de la Cruz, Palermo, Sellerio, 1999;
K. S. Salkjelsvik, “El desvío como norma: la retórica de la receta en Como agua para chocolate”, Revista Iberoamericana, LXV, 186 (enero-marzo 1999), pp. 171-182;

Modulo – B
J. Amado, Gabriela Cravo e canela (qualunque edizione) [tr.it. Gabriella, garofano e cannella, Torino, Einaudi, 1991]
G. Ramos, Vidas Secas (qualunque edizione) [tr. it. Vite secche, Roma, Robin, 2001]

E. Finazzi-Agrò, La parabola golosa. Oralità e alimentazione in Gabriela, in Jorge Amado. Ricette narrative, a cura di G. Lanciani, Roma. Bulzoni, 1994, pp. 21-31;
P. Peterle, La fame delle assenze e l’intellettuale brasiliano: un percorso letterario, “Quaderno del Dipartimento di Letterature Comparate”, 5, 2010, pp. 345-354

We will study the most important poetic and novelistic experiments in early twentieth-century English-language modernism. We will focus in particular on the differences between British artists such as D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, on one hand, and the Irish and American poets as well as Joseph Conrad – an English writer but a transnational novelist.
Our purpose is not just to uncover the early signs of the dynamics that lead to a breakup of that which Antoine Compagnon has defined “le modèle de la philologie, pour laquelle l’unité langue-littérature-culture coïncide avec l’esprit d’une nation, ou d’une race”; or identify the starting point of the process which led eventually a number of non-British authors to transform what was up to that point a national literature; of even greater importance is to make students understand how much these experiments had in common with models being constructed on the Continent by those thinkers and linguists who founder literary theory, truly one of the great inventions of the 20th century.

Fiction
We will be moving back in time, in our investigation of the differences among the authors.
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927). Novel
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924). Novel
James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Novel
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900). Novel
D. H. Lawrence, “Odour of Chrysanthemums” (1911). Short story.

Reading List
Novels which will not be taught in depth during the course but that must be studied for the exam. Choose one among the following two:
D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (1913)
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)

Poems
Irish Airman, Leda and the Swan, September 1913, Easter 1916, Byzantium, Sailing to Byzantium,
T. S. Eliot, “Prufrock”, The Waste Land, “The Hollow Men”
Ezra Pound, “To Whistler, American”, “In a Station of the Metro”, “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”

Before classes start on February 28, the instructor will send to all the students included in the mailing list the poems by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound which we will study in class.

Essays
We will study some of the main theoretical statements set forth by the authors we will study. Among these:
Joseph Conrad, “Preface” to Almayer’s Folly (1895), The Nigger of the “Narcissus” (1897), and a selection from his letters.
T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919), “Ulysses, Order and Myth” (1923)
Ezra Pound, “Vorticism” (1914), “Henry James and Remy de Goncourt” (in Make It New, 1935)
Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction” (1919), “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1923), Reviews of Conrad’s novels, references to James Joyce.

Criticism and Historical Background
These are the first of a number of critical works that form an integral part of the program. More will follow during the course.
Kenner, Hugh, “The ‘Portrait’ in Perspective, The Kenyon Review, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Summer, 1948), pp. 361-381 (disponibile in pdf)
Rainey, Lawrence, Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture, London New Haven : Yale University Press, 1998 (collocazione, LLS/ H 0681 )
Vendler, Helen, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007 (collocazione, LLS/ 58 D 0537)

I semester: Soviet Literature and Culture (1934-1991). Knowledge of historical (1917-1991), cultural and literary background. Soviet byt key-concepts. Analysis of literary and filmic works.
II semester: Post-Soviet Literature and Culture.

Readings/Bibliography (I semester)

Textbooks

- Storia della civiltà letteraria russa, a cura di Michele Colucci e Riccardo Picchio, UTET, Torino1997, v. II, pp. 173-198; pp. 396-403;

- Storia della letteratura russa. Il Novecento, a cura di Vittorio Strada et al., Einaudi, Torino 1990, v. III, pp. 167-197, pp. 407-418, pp. 421-436, pp. 459-465); pp. 770-783.

- Ju. Lejderman, M. Lipoveckij, Istorija russkoj sovremennoj literatury (any editions)

Readings
Students must have already read: E. Zamiatin, My, M. Bulgakov, Master i Margarita, B. Pasternak, Doktor Zhivago, A. Akhmatova, Rekviem.

A. Solhenicyn, Odin den’ Ivana Denisovicha
V. Aksenov Zvezdnyi bilet
V. Erofeev Moskva-Petushki
V. Pelevin Omon Ra
Vl. Makanin Andegraund, ili geroi nashego vremeni

2 additional readings
A. Bitov Pushkinskii dom
S. Dovlatov Zona/ Inostranka
V. Shalamov Kolymskie rasskazy
A. Solzhenitsyn Rakovyi Korpus
Iu. Trifonov Dom na naberezhnoi/Obmen
V. Voinovich Monumental’naia propaganda/ Shapka

Literary Criticism
G. P. Piretto, Il radioso avvenire. Mitologie culturali e sovietiche, Torino, Einaudi, 2001 (three chapters) or P. Vail, A. Genis, 60-e. Mir sovetskovo cheloveka, Moskva, Novoe Literaturnoe obozrenie, 2001 (two chapters).
Vi. Erofeev, I fiori del male russi, in I fiori del male russi. Antologia. a cura di Vi. Erofeev, Roma, Voland, 2001 (in Italian/English or Russian).
I. Brodskii, “Room an half”, in Id., Less than One: Selected Essays, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1886


The bibliographical material is available in the library of Faculty.


The bibliographical material is available in the library of Faculty. Additional materials will be provided during the lessons.

Incoming students info
Erasmus students, or any exchange students, can take their examination in Russian. Arrangements are to be made before the exam.


Additional info
Attendance and participation are highly encouraged. Non-attending students should contact us immediately at the beginning of academic year to discuss what they should be doing. The course is taught in Russian and Italian.

Gli studi semiotici e antropologici hanno messo in evidenza come attraverso il sistema di comunicazione del cibo si definiscano (o autodefiniscano) rapporti di potere, distinzioni tra classi sociali, questioni di genere, vincoli tra popoli lontani, identità nazionali, locali e meticce, pratiche religiose o schemi dottrinali e finanche tradizioni letterarie. Il modulo esplora alcune di queste tematiche attraverso testi che appartengono ormai anche alla tradizione culinaria latinoamericana oltre che a quella letteraria.

C. Cattarulla (a cura di), Identità culinarie in Sudamerica, Roma, Nova Delphi, 2017;
M. Montanari, Il cibo come cultura, Milano-Bari, Laterza, 2004;
L. Esquivel, Como agua para chocolate [1989] qualunque edizione (ultima ed. italiana Dolce come il cioccolato, Milano, Garzanti, 2015);
A. Morino, Il libro di cucina di Juana Inés de la Cruz, Palermo, Sellerio, 1999;
K. S. Salkjelsvik, “El desvío como norma: la retórica de la receta en Como agua para chocolate”, Revista Iberoamericana, LXV, 186 (enero-marzo 1999), pp. 171-182.
J. Amado, Gabriela Cravo e canela (qualunque edizione) (tr.it. Gabriella, garofano e cannella, Torino, Einaudi, 1991);
G. Ramos, Vidas Secas (qualunque edizione) [tr. it. Vite secche, Roma, Robin, 2001];
E. Finazzi-Agrò, La parabola golosa. Oralità e alimentazione in Gabriela, in Jorge Amado. Ricette narrative, a cura di G. Lanciani, Roma. Bulzoni, 1994, pp. 21-31;
P. Peterle, La fame delle assenze e l’intellettuale brasiliano: un percorso letterario, “Quaderno del Dipartimento di Letterature Comparate”, 5, 2010, pp. 345-354.

Title of the course: The others' travel. Contemporary narrations of migration to Italy

Description of the course: In the last fifteen years the epochal phaenomenon of migrations has had literary repercussion also in Italy. The course will present some samples of this recent literary production in order to describe the different strategies of narration employed to give voice to the migratory experience.

- U. Fracassa, Patria e lettere. Per una critica della letteratura postcoloniale e migrante in Italia, Perrone, 2012

- 4 of the following texts:
• Wu ming 2, Antar Mohamed, Timira. Romanzo meticcio, Torino , Einaudi, 2012
• Paolo Di stefano, I pesci devono nuotare, Rizzoli, 2016
• Melania Mazzucco, Io sto con te. Storia di Brigitte, Einaudi 2017
• Eraldo Affinati, Vita di vita, Mondadori, 2014
• Erri De Luca, Solo andata. Righe che vanno troppo spesso a capo, Einaudi, 2005
• Marco Rovelli, La parte del fuoco, Barbès, 2012
• Giuseppe Catozzella, Non dirmi che hai paura, Feltrinelli, 2014
• Fabio Geda, Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli. Storia vera di Enaiatollah Akbari, Baldini&Castoldi, 2010
• Ibrahim Kane Annour, Elisa Cozzarini, Il deserto negli occhi, Nuovadimensione, 2013

Further indications will be provided during the course

Medieval English and German authors between Latin and the Vernacular languages

The aim of the course is to describe the medieval author's concern with the diffusion of knowledge  and his concept of vernacular literacy through the analysis of texts, prologues, letters coming from the Germanic milieu. Special attention will be paid to the relationship between Latin and the vernacular languages, to translation strategies, to the use of different languages and dialects within the same text and to the intended audience. 
The works analyzed will serve as the starting point for outlining the main literary and cultural conditions and circumstances in which they were produced and for widening and refining the students’ knowledge in the field of diachronic linguistics and textual tradition. Students will learn how to use the principle bibliographical instruments for carrying out individual or team investigations on semantic, morphological, syntactic and literary aspects.
Seminars, with students’ presentations of individual researches, will be held. Visits to historical libraries will be planned.

A selection of chapters and passages from the following texts:
- J. Wilcox, Ælfric's Prefaces. Durham Medieval Texts 1994
- O. Erdmann (ed.), Otfrids Evangelienbuch, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag 1973
- J.C. King - P.W. Tax, Notker Labeo. Die kleineren Schriften, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag 1996
- J. Wogan-Browne et alii, The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280–1520, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
- D. Crystal, The Stories of English, London : Penguin Books, 2004.
- A.M. Luiselli Fadda, Tradizioni manoscritte e critica del testo nel Medioevo germanico, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2010.

Further material will be given at the beginning of the course.
Students are advised to attend classes. Those who cannot attend them are requested to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.

First part: Romance ecdotics and texts. Second Part: Myths and models between convergences and comparisons. The sentimental education of the medieval romance fiction.

Notes on "Interpretation and criticism of the text" made available at the beginning of the course, and selected parts of critical editions (Editions Carocci, Editions dell'Orso, Aracne, "Magnificat" Journal of medieval philology and literature), indicated by the teacher

The Fall of Man in Medieval Germanic Literature

The course will focus on the different modes of translating and interpreting Biblical passages in the medieval Germanic milieu. Special attention will be given to the Fall of man and to the representations of Adam and Eve in texts belonging to different genres and periods. Problems related to source identification, to the relations among texts, to the interaction between word and image, to the various allusions and quotations of the Temptation episode found in works of different authors (Chaucer, Langland, Gottfried von Strassburg), to the allegorical and metaphorical dimension of the scene as it appears in literary texts will be analyzed from a literary, philological and linguistic perspective. The course will also provide students with an understanding of the main aspects of language changes over time (phonological, lexical, morphological, syntactic). Students will learn how to use the principle bibliographical instruments for carrying out individual or team researches.

One of the following texts:

- C. Barber, The English Language: a Historical Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993.
- P. von Polenz, Geschichte der deutschen Sprache, Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter 1978.

A selection of chapters from:

- 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
- B. Murdoch, The Apocryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe: Vernacular Translations and Adaptations of the Vita Adae et Evae, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009
- 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 (chapters 1,2,6,21,26).
- D. Kartschoke, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im hohen Mittelalter, München: DTV 1990.

Further material (critical editions, glossaries, critical essays) will be given at the beginning of the course.
Students are advised to attend classes. Those who cannot attend them are requested to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.

The Seventheenth French Century. Montaigne and the Personal writing

G. Macchia, La Letteratura francese. Dal tramonto del Medioevo al Rinascimento, Rizzoli/BUR
Lagarde et Michard, XVIe siècle, Bordas
Montaigne, Essais, I,II,III, Folio
Montaigne Essais/Saggi, a cura di Fausta Garavini, Bompiani
J. Starobinski, Montaigne en mouvement, Gallimard
P. Carile, Dall'America all'Australia..., Biblink, CeSIF/Conferenze
Auerbach, Mimesis, vol. II, cap. I e II, Einaudi/PBE
S. Solmi, La salute di Montaigne, in S.S., Saggi di letteratura francese, vol. IV, t, I, Adelphi

Some Versions of Disenchantment in American Poetry
Four poems by major American poets will offer the ground for a close reading of the poetic text, and an investigation of the growing disenchanted mood in American poetry in light of the impingement of the changing historical conditions. Translation studies will be under scrutiny.

E. A. Poe, The Raven; T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men; Ezra Pound, Canto 45; Allen Ginsberg, Howl. The poems are available in anthologies of American poetry, and in the Selected/Collected Poems of the individual poets.

Criticism: The Cambridge Companions to the individual poets; on T. S. Eliot: Caterina Ricciardi, Una lettura di The Hollow Men di T. S. Eliot (Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2017); selected chapters from A New Literary History of America (ed. by Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors, Boston, Harvard University Press, 2009).

The main aim of the course is the contrastive paremiologic study of the translations in Italian language of a representative corpus gathered by La Celestino and The Quijote. The retrieval of the sources and The lexicology study of the proverbs will be the first phase of a work that wants to solicit, according to a diacronic approach , a critical reflection about the results of the translating experiences stratified along the centuries and to develop a dominion of the lexicographical materials and of the corporation. These resources will give to the students the right instruments to operate consciously and efficiently with some translation proofs compared to the analyzed material. The new experience will be supported by the discussion on methodological problems and by a reflection of the act of translating as linguistic cultural mediation, in order to consolidate the necessary skills to act in a coherent way in front of the transcultural problems.

BIZZARRI, Hugo Oscar, El refranero castellano en la Edad Media, ed. Laberinto, Madrid, 2004.
IRIBARREN, José María, El porqué de los dichosl porqué de los dichos: sentido, origen y anécdota de dichos, modismos y frases proverbiales, Ariel, Barcelona, 2015.

Testi di consultazione
Miguel de Cervantes, L’ingegnoso cittadino Don Chisciotte della Mancia. Traduzione di Lorenzo Franciosini, Venezia, 1622.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Chisciotte della Mancia. Traduzione, introduzione e note di Vittorio Bodini, 2 volumi, Einaudi, Torino 1994.
Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina. Traduzione di Alfonso Ordóñez, Roma,1506.
Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina. Traduzione di A. Gasparetti, Rizzoli, Milano, 2006.

Studenti non frequentanti
Gli studenti che non potranno seguire il corso sono pregati di mettersi in contatto con il docente per concordare la bibliografia integrativa.

First Part: Texts and Intersections in Medieval Catalan Literature and beyond the Middle Ages. Second part: The medieval text, between critical edition and translation.

Manuals, critical readings and texts (with translation into Italian aside) will be indicated by the teacher at the beginning of the course.

La prima parte del corso, tenuta dal prof. Trecca in forma seminariale, si propone di illustrare il concetto di repertorio culturale attraverso lo studio di adattamenti (filmici e televisivi) e allestimenti teatrali in epoca contemporanea di opere rappresentative della tradizione letteraria e drammaturgica spagnola (dai classici agli anni 20 del Novecento). La seconda parte del corso sarà tenuta dal prof. J. Aparicio (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, visiting professor), che illustrerà più in particolare alcuni aspetti teorici centrali nello studio della narrativa contemporanea (il problema delle cd. “letterature nazionali”, dello “stile d’autore”, delle “generazioni letterarie”, il concetto di genere, la centralità della riscrittura, dell’intertestualità e dell’interdiscorsività). Il corso si terrà interamente in lingua spagnola.

Materiale didattico (necessario per seguire le lezioni e per sostenere l’esame)

TESTI

MODULO 1 (prof. Trecca)
1) OPERE LETTERARIE DI RIFERIMENTO
(Nota bene: la conoscenza degli autori e dei testi elencati, facenti parte del patrimonio letterario spagnolo canonico, costituisce un prerequisito per la partecipazione proficua agli incontri seminariali. Le edizioni indicate sono quelle consigliate. Gli studenti già in possesso di altre edizioni dovranno comunicarlo tempestivamente al docente all’inizio del corso per concordare i materiali ai fini della frequenza e dello svolgimento dell’esame)
• Anonimo, Lazarillo de Tormes (si consiglia la nuova edizione bilingue a cura di A. Gargano, Venezia, Marsilio);
• Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina, qualsiasi edizione spagnola;
• Lope de Vega, El perro del hortelano (si consiglia l’edizione bilingue a cura di F. Antonucci e S. Arata, Napoli, Liguori);
• Lope de Vega, Peribáñez y el comendador de Ocaña, (si consiglia l’edizione bilingue a cura di F. Antonucci, Milano, BUR);
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La vida es sueño, a cura di F. Antonucci, Barcelona, Crítica;
• Benito Pérez Galdós, Doña Perfecta, Madrid, Cátedra;
• Leopoldo Alas “Clarín”, La Regenta, Madrid, Castalia;
• Federico García Lorca, Bodas de sangre (si consiglia l’edizione bilingue a cura di Elide Pittarello, Venezia, Marsilio);
• Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Divinas palabras, a cura di Gonzalo Sobejano, Madrid, Austral.

2) ELENCO DEGLI ADATTAMENTI FILMICI E DEGLI ALLESTIMENTI TEATRALI
• El Lazarillo de Tormes, film diretto da César Fernández Ardavín, 1959;
• Lázaro de Tormes, film diretto da Fernando Fernán Gómez e José Luis García Sánchez, 2000;
• La Celestina, film diretto da César Fernández Ardavín, 1969;
• La Celestina, film diretto da Gerardo Vera, 1996;
• El perro del hortelano, film diretto da Pilar Miró, 1996;
• El perro del hortelano, vari allestimenti teatrali;
• Peribáñez y el comendador de Ocaña, sceneggiato televisivo TVE, 1970;
• Peribáñez y el comendador de Ocaña, allestimento teatrale diretto da José Luis Alonso de Santos, 2002;
• La vida es sueño, vari allestimenti teatrali fino al 2012;
• La vida es sueño, sceneggiato televisivo TVE, 1967;
• Doña Perfecta, film diretto da César Fernández Ardavín, 1977;
• Doña Perfecta, allestimento teatrale diretto da Ernesto Caballero, 2013;
• La Regenta, serie televisiva diretta da Fernando Méndez-Leite, 1995;
• La Regenta, allestimento teatrale diretto da Marina Bollaín, 2012;
• Bodas de sangre, film diretto da Carlos Saura, 1981;
• La novia, film basato su Bodas de sangre diretto da Paula Ortiz, 2015
• Divinas palabras, film diretto da José Luis García Sánchez, 1987;
• Divinas palabras, allestimenti teatrali del 1999 e del 2006.

MODULO 2 (prof. Javier Aparicio)
• Javier Marías, Todas las almas, DeBolsillo, Barcelona, 2010;
• Enrique Vila-Matas, Bartleby y compañía, DeBolsillo, Barcelona, 2014;
• Eduardo Mendoza, El misterio de la cripta embrujada, Booket, Barcelona, 2017.


3) CRITICA e NOZIONI DI STORIA E STORIA LETTERARIA:

a) Giuliana Di Febo, Santos Juliá, Il franchismo, Roma, Carocci;
b) Carmelo Adagio, Alfonso Botti, Storia della Spagna democratica, Milano, Bruno Mondadori;
c) Jordi Gracia y Domingo Ródenas, Derrota y restitución de la modernidad. 1939-2010. Historia de la literatura española. 7, Crítica, Barcelona, 2011 (parti indicate dal docente)
d) Uno o più manuali di letteratura spagnola di riferimento da concordare con il docente all’inizio del corso;
e) “Nociones de teoría de la adaptación y la intermedialidad” (fascicolo messo a disposizione dal docente all’inizio del corso)
f) “Notas sobre la puesta en escena actual del teatro clásico español” (fascicolo messo a disposizione dal docente all’inizio del corso);
g) altri materiali critici che verranno indicati per tempo sul sito del docente.

Gli studi semiotici e antropologici hanno messo in evidenza come attraverso il sistema di comunicazione del cibo si definiscano (o autodefiniscano) rapporti di potere, distinzioni tra classi sociali, questioni di genere, vincoli tra popoli lontani, identità nazionali, locali e meticce, pratiche religiose o schemi dottrinali e finanche tradizioni letterarie. Il modulo esplora alcune di queste tematiche attraverso testi che appartengono ormai anche alla tradizione culinaria latinoamericana oltre che a quella letteraria.

C. Cattarulla (a cura di), Identità culinarie in Sudamerica, Roma, Nova Delphi, 2017;
M. Montanari, Il cibo come cultura, Milano-Bari, Laterza, 2004.
L. Esquivel, Como agua para chocolate [1989] qualunque edizione (ultima ed. italiana Dolce come il cioccolato, Milano, Garzanti, 2015);
J. M. Gorriti, Cucina eclettica. L’America Latina a tavola nell’800 [1890], Roma, Nova Delphi, 2013;
C. Cattarulla, “Cibo e donna nell’Argentina migratoria: dall’ecletticismo al mosaico culturale nazionale”, Oltreoceano, 4(2010), pp. 143-150.
http: riviste.forumeditrice.it/oltreoceano/issue/view/36/showToc;
K. S. Salkjelsvik, “El desvío como norma: la retórica de la receta en Como agua para chocolate”, Revista Iberoamericana, LXV, 186 (enero-marzo 1999), pp. 171-182.
J. Amado, Dona Flor e seus dois maridos (qualunque edizione) (tr. it Dona Flor e i suoi due mariti, Milano, Garzanti, 2003);
G. Freyre, Casa-grande e Senzala. Formação da família brasileira sob o regime da economia patriarcal, São Paulo, Global Editora, 2011 (tr.it. Padroni e schiavi. La formazione della famiglia brasiliana in regime di economia patriarcale, Torino, Einaudi, 1965);
N. Castro da Silva, Culinária e alimentação em Gilberto Freyre: raça, identidade e modernidade, “Latin American Research Review”, vol 49, 3, 2014, pp. 3-22;
V. Ribeiro Corossacz, Razzismo, meticciato, democrazia razziale. Le politiche della razza in Brasile, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2005, pp. 7-61.

Gli studi semiotici e antropologici hanno messo in evidenza come attraverso il sistema di comunicazione del cibo si definiscano (o autodefiniscano) rapporti di potere, distinzioni tra classi sociali, questioni di genere, vincoli tra popoli lontani, identità nazionali, locali e meticce, pratiche religiose o schemi dottrinali e finanche tradizioni letterarie. Il modulo esplora alcune di queste tematiche attraverso testi che appartengono ormai anche alla tradizione culinaria latinoamericana oltre che a quella letteraria.

C. Cattarulla (a cura di), Identità culinarie in Sudamerica, Roma, Nova Delphi, 2017;
M. Montanari, Il cibo come cultura, Milano-Bari, Laterza, 2004;

Modulo – A
para chocolate [1989] qualunque edizione (ultima ed. italiana Dolce come il cioccolato, Milano, Garzanti, 2015);
J. M. Gorriti, Cucina eclettica. L’America Latina a tavola nell’800 [1890], Roma, Nova Delphi, 2013;
C. Cattarulla, “Cibo e donna nell’Argentina migratoria: dall’ecletticismo al mosaico culturale nazionale”, Oltreoceano, 4(2010), pp. 143-150.
http: riviste.forumeditrice.it/oltreoceano/issue/view/36/showToc;
K. S. Salkjelsvik, “El desvío como norma: la retórica de la receta en Como agua para chocolate”, Revista Iberoamericana, LXV, 186 (enero-marzo 1999), pp. 171-182.

Modulo - B
J. Amado, Dona Flor e seus dois maridos (qualunque edizione) [tr. it Dona Flor e i suoi due mariti, Milano, Garzanti, 2003]
G. Freyre, Casa-grande e Senzala. Formação da família brasileira sob o regime da economia patriarcal, São Paulo, Global Editora, 2011 (tr.it. Padroni e schiavi. La formazione della famiglia brasiliana in regime di economia patriarcale, Torino, Einaudi, 1965)

N. Castro da Silva, Culinária e alimentação em Gilberto Freyre: raça, identidade e modernidade, “Latin American Research Review”, vol 49, 3, 2014, pp. 3-22.
V. Ribeiro Corossacz, Razzismo, meticciato, democrazia razziale. Le politiche della razza in Brasile, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2005, pp. 7-61.

I semester: Soviet Literature and Culture (1934-1991). Knowledge of historical (1917-1991), cultural and literary background. Soviet byt key-concepts. Analysis of literary and filmic works.
II semester: Post-Soviet Literature and Culture.

Readings/Bibliography (I semester)

Textbooks

- Storia della civiltà letteraria russa, a cura di Michele Colucci e Riccardo Picchio, UTET, Torino1997, v. II, pp. 173-198; pp. 396-403;

- Storia della letteratura russa. Il Novecento, a cura di Vittorio Strada et al., Einaudi, Torino 1990, v. III, pp. 167-197, pp. 407-418, pp. 421-436, pp. 459-465); pp. 770-783.

- Ju. Lejderman, M. Lipoveckij, Istorija russkoj sovremennoj literatury (any editions)

Readings
Students must have already read: E. Zamiatin, My, M. Bulgakov, Master i Margarita, B. Pasternak, Doktor Zhivago, A. Akhmatova, Rekviem.

A. Solhenicyn, Odin den’ Ivana Denisovicha
V. Aksenov Zvezdnyi bilet
V. Erofeev Moskva-Petushki
V. Pelevin Omon Ra
Vl. Makanin Andegraund, ili geroi nashego vremeni

3 additional readings
A. Bitov Pushkinskii dom
S. Dovlatov Zona/ Inostranka
V. Shalamov Kolymskie rasskazy
A. Solzhenitsyn Rakovyi Korpus
Iu. Trifonov Dom na naberezhnoi/Obmen
V. Voinovich Monumental’naia propaganda/ Shapka

Literary Criticism
G. P. Piretto, Il radioso avvenire. Mitologie culturali e sovietiche, Torino, Einaudi, 2001 (three chapters) or P. Vail, A. Genis, 60-e. Mir sovetskovo cheloveka, Moskva, Novoe Literaturnoe obozrenie, 2001 (two chapters).
Vi. Erofeev, I fiori del male russi, in I fiori del male russi. Antologia. a cura di Vi. Erofeev, Roma, Voland, 2001 (in Italian/English or Russian).
I. Brodskii, “Room an half”, in Id., Less than One: Selected Essays, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1886


The bibliographical material is available in the library of Faculty.


The bibliographical material is available in the library of Faculty. Additional materials will be provided during the lessons.

Incoming students info
Erasmus students, or any exchange students, can take their examination in Russian. Arrangements are to be made before the exam.


Additional info
Attendance and participation are highly encouraged. Non-attending students should contact us immediately at the beginning of academic year to discuss what they should be doing. The course is taught in Russian and Italian.

Translation: from theory to practice

In order to achieve the above mentioned aims, the course will be divided into two parts: the first part will deal with more theoretical issues while the second will be concerned with more practical aspects and will include laboratory work.

- S. Borutti, U. Heidmann, , La Babele in cui viviamo. Traduzioni, riscritture, culture, Bollati Boringhieri 2012 (Introduzione e capitoli 2, 4, 5)
- P. Ricoeur, Sur la traduction, Bayard 2004
-J. Risset, Peut-on traduire les géants?, « Mezzavoce », 1, 1992
- A. Prete, In compagnia di Baudelaire. Traduzione, dialogo, imitazione, «Cahiers d’études romanes», 24, 2011, URL: http://etudesromanes.revues.org/1068
- L. Santone, Traduire le « vertige de l’expansion ». Sur Madame Bovary, « Flaubert. Revue critique et génétique », 14, 2015, URL : https://flaubert.revues.org/
- L. Santone, Traduction, rythme, mémoire. Sur la traduction de la Divine Comédie de Jacqueline Risset, « Il Confronto Letterario », 2016 (sous presse)

The texts and the dictionaries can be consulted at the Petrocchi humanistic library:

Ataliba Teixeira de Castilho, Gramática do português, editora Contexto, 2010 pagg 169-242 (the copy machines can be found at the shop right in front of the main entrance, in Via Ostiense)
Mateus, M. H. M. et al, Gramática da língua portuguesa, Lisboa, Caminho 2003.


Dictionaries:
Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea, Academia das Ciências, Lisboa, Verbo, 2001.
Novo Dicionário Aurélio da Língua Portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Nova Fronteira, 2004.
Mea, G., Dicionário de Italiano-Português e Italiano-Português, Zanichelli Porto Editora, 2 VV., 2010

The main topic of the course is the use of corpus linguistics in translation.

Students will focus on the translation from English into Italian of complex texts belonging to different textual genres, which differ in terms of their pragmatic purposes, their lexicogrammar, and their language register.

Students will carry out several practical activities in the classroom and in the computer room.

Paul Baker (2006). Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum.
ISBN PB: 0-8264-7725-9
PB: 978-0-8264-7725-5

The class offers a comparison between two different and complementary fields of contemporary transation studies: the functionalist, communicative and holistic one by Hans G. Hönig and the 'literal' one by Antoine Berman. Theoretical lessons will be alternated with translation exercises from German into Italian in which different textual varieties will be dealt with. The classroom analysis of individual papers will be an opportunity to compare theoretical discourse with practice.

Hans G. Hönig, Konstruktives Übersetzen, 3. Aufl., Stauffenburg 2010;
Antoine Berman, La traduzione e la lettera o l’albergo nella lontananza, Quodlibet 2003.