This module continues the in-depth exploration of contemporary literary debate, providing advanced tools for understanding and analyzing complex texts—narrative, theatrical, and filmic—with an increased focus on theoretical-comparative analysis. The course is structured around the analysis of categories such as reception, rewriting, adaptation, and transmediality, integrating both diachronic and synchronic perspectives in relation to other arts. Students will be guided in the autonomous application of the acquired theoretical tools, with particular attention to hypertextual and multimedia texts. The module will enable them to interpret literary phenomena in diverse contexts, developing a critical method capable of reading and analyzing texts from a theoretical-comparative perspective – both diachronic and synchronic – in dialogue with other artistic forms.
teacher profile teaching materials
Claudio Guillén, Entre lo uno y lo diverso. Introducción a la literatura comparada, Madrid, Taurus, 1985. (In originale o in traduzione italiana); Ernst Robert Curtius, Letteratura europea e Medioevo latino, La Nuova Italia
Classici del pensiero critico (capitoli indicati durante il corso):
Erich Auerbach, Mimesis. Il realismo nella letteratura occidentale, 2 voll., Einaudi
Northrop Frye, Anatomia della critica, Einaudi
Viktor B. Šklovskij, Teoria della prosa, Einaudi
Tzvetan Todorov (a cura di), I formalisti russi, Einaudi
Teoria/Theory. Prospettive per la critica letteraria e le letterature comparate, a cura di Elisabetta Abignente, Mimmo Cangiano, Irene Fantappiè, Guido Mattia Gallerani, Marco Gatto, Francesco Giusti, «Status Questionis», 6, 2024, https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/status_quaestionis
Intermdialità (capitoli indicati durante il corso):
Marina Grishakova & Marie-Laure Ryan (a cura di), Intermediality and Storytelling, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015
Jürgen Bruhn, The Intermediality of Narrative Literature, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
Gabriele Rippl (a cura di), Handbook of Intermediality, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015
Michele Cometa, Estetica e media, Milano: Bompiani, 2011
Montani, Pietro, L’immaginazione intermediale. Perlustrare, rifigurare, testimoniare il mondo visibile, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2010.
Arvidson, Jens; Askander, Mikael; Bruhn, Jørgen; Führer, Hubert (a cura di), Changing Borders: Contemporary Positions in Intermediality, Lund: Intermedia Studies Press, 2007.
Testi narrativi indicati all’inizio del corso.
Programme
This module continues the in-depth exploration of contemporary literary debate, providing advanced tools for understanding and analyzing complex texts—narrative, theatrical, and filmic—with an increased focus on theoretical-comparative analysis. The course is structured around the analysis of categories such as reception, rewriting, adaptation, and transmediality, integrating both diachronic and synchronic perspectives in relation to other arts. Students will be guided in the autonomous application of the acquired theoretical tools, with particular attention to hypertextual and multimedia texts. The module will enable them to interpret literary phenomena in diverse contexts, developing a critical method capable of reading and analyzing texts from a theoretical-comparative perspective – both diachronic and synchronic – in dialogue with other artistic forms.Core Documentation
Manuali di letteratura comparata (capitoli indicati durante il corso):Claudio Guillén, Entre lo uno y lo diverso. Introducción a la literatura comparada, Madrid, Taurus, 1985. (In originale o in traduzione italiana); Ernst Robert Curtius, Letteratura europea e Medioevo latino, La Nuova Italia
Classici del pensiero critico (capitoli indicati durante il corso):
Erich Auerbach, Mimesis. Il realismo nella letteratura occidentale, 2 voll., Einaudi
Northrop Frye, Anatomia della critica, Einaudi
Viktor B. Šklovskij, Teoria della prosa, Einaudi
Tzvetan Todorov (a cura di), I formalisti russi, Einaudi
Teoria/Theory. Prospettive per la critica letteraria e le letterature comparate, a cura di Elisabetta Abignente, Mimmo Cangiano, Irene Fantappiè, Guido Mattia Gallerani, Marco Gatto, Francesco Giusti, «Status Questionis», 6, 2024, https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/status_quaestionis
Intermdialità (capitoli indicati durante il corso):
Marina Grishakova & Marie-Laure Ryan (a cura di), Intermediality and Storytelling, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015
Jürgen Bruhn, The Intermediality of Narrative Literature, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
Gabriele Rippl (a cura di), Handbook of Intermediality, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015
Michele Cometa, Estetica e media, Milano: Bompiani, 2011
Montani, Pietro, L’immaginazione intermediale. Perlustrare, rifigurare, testimoniare il mondo visibile, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2010.
Arvidson, Jens; Askander, Mikael; Bruhn, Jørgen; Führer, Hubert (a cura di), Changing Borders: Contemporary Positions in Intermediality, Lund: Intermedia Studies Press, 2007.
Testi narrativi indicati all’inizio del corso.
Reference Bibliography
Manuali di letteratura comparata (capitoli indicati durante il corso): Claudio Guillén, Entre lo uno y lo diverso. Introducción a la literatura comparada, Madrid, Taurus, 1985. (In originale o in traduzione italiana); Ernst Robert Curtius, Letteratura europea e Medioevo latino, La Nuova Italia Classici del pensiero critico (capitoli indicati durante il corso): Erich Auerbach, Mimesis. Il realismo nella letteratura occidentale, 2 voll., Einaudi Northrop Frye, Anatomia della critica, Einaudi Viktor B. Šklovskij, Teoria della prosa, Einaudi Tzvetan Todorov (a cura di), I formalisti russi, Einaudi Teoria/Theory. Prospettive per la critica letteraria e le letterature comparate, a cura di Elisabetta Abignente, Mimmo Cangiano, Irene Fantappiè, Guido Mattia Gallerani, Marco Gatto, Francesco Giusti, «Status Questionis», 6, 2024, https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/status_quaestionis Intermdialità (capitoli indicati durante il corso): Marina Grishakova & Marie-Laure Ryan (a cura di), Intermediality and Storytelling, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015 Jürgen Bruhn, The Intermediality of Narrative Literature, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 Gabriele Rippl (a cura di), Handbook of Intermediality, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015 Michele Cometa, Estetica e media, Milano: Bompiani, 2011 Montani, Pietro, L’immaginazione intermediale. Perlustrare, rifigurare, testimoniare il mondo visibile, Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2010. Arvidson, Jens; Askander, Mikael; Bruhn, Jørgen; Führer, Hubert (a cura di), Changing Borders: Contemporary Positions in Intermediality, Lund: Intermedia Studies Press, 2007. Testi narrativi indicati all’inizio del corso.Attendance
Attendance is strongly recommended. Active participation in lectures and seminars is an essential part of the learning process and will be taken into account in the development of the course program.Type of evaluation
The exam will consist of an oral interview aimed at assessing not only the student’s thorough knowledge of the texts on the syllabus, but also their critical and interpretative skills. Particular attention will be paid to methodological awareness, the effective use of the relevant bibliography, and the quality of the student’s presentation, especially their ability to establish meaningful connections between the theoretical framework and the texts discussed.