The course aims to offer a thorough knowledge of the novel genre, understood as the history of a European literary genre from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The chronological approach will be accompanied by a critical reflection on the historiography of the genre, as well as a particular attention to the exchanges and mutual influences that have determined its evolution. The student will be guided in the analysis of the main strands of the European novel –from the medieval courtly novel to the eighteenth-century epistolary and/or libertine novel, from nineteenth-century realism to the essay novel and the twentieth-century modernist novel – in order to understand the dynamics that have made it the most important genre in the European literary tradition.
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The course explores the representation of the First World War in the European and Italian novel, with particular attention to the transformations of narrative forms, literary language, and the imaginary of modernity. Through the analysis of both canonical and lesser-known texts, the course investigates how the experience of war reshaped the relationship between experience, memory, and writing, generating new modes of representing trauma and subjectivity.
Giovanni Comisso, Giorni di guerra
Dino Buzzati, Il deserto dei Tartari
E.M. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Course handouts
Programme
The nights and the pens are all white. The Great War and the novel”The course explores the representation of the First World War in the European and Italian novel, with particular attention to the transformations of narrative forms, literary language, and the imaginary of modernity. Through the analysis of both canonical and lesser-known texts, the course investigates how the experience of war reshaped the relationship between experience, memory, and writing, generating new modes of representing trauma and subjectivity.
Core Documentation
Selected editions of:Giovanni Comisso, Giorni di guerra
Dino Buzzati, Il deserto dei Tartari
E.M. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Course handouts
Reference Bibliography
Selected editions of: Giovanni Comisso, Giorni di guerra Dino Buzzati, Il deserto dei Tartari E.M. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front Course handoutsAttendance
Attendance is recommendedType of evaluation
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The course explores the representation of the First World War in the European and Italian novel, with particular attention to the transformations of narrative forms, literary language, and the imaginary of modernity. Through the analysis of both canonical and lesser-known texts, the course investigates how the experience of war reshaped the relationship between experience, memory, and writing, generating new modes of representing trauma and subjectivity.
Giovanni Comisso, Giorni di guerra
Dino Buzzati, Il deserto dei Tartari
E.M. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Course handouts
Mutuazione: 20711436 STORIA DEI GENERI LETTERARI in Lettere L-10 R RIGO PAOLO
Programme
The nights and the pens are all white. The Great War and the novel”The course explores the representation of the First World War in the European and Italian novel, with particular attention to the transformations of narrative forms, literary language, and the imaginary of modernity. Through the analysis of both canonical and lesser-known texts, the course investigates how the experience of war reshaped the relationship between experience, memory, and writing, generating new modes of representing trauma and subjectivity.
Core Documentation
Selected editions of:Giovanni Comisso, Giorni di guerra
Dino Buzzati, Il deserto dei Tartari
E.M. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Course handouts
Reference Bibliography
Selected editions of: Giovanni Comisso, Giorni di guerra Dino Buzzati, Il deserto dei Tartari E.M. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front Course handoutsAttendance
Attendance is recommendedType of evaluation
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