Corso di laurea magistrale in
Culture moderne comparate

As preliminary knowledges and skills for this course, students should have:
1) a very good knowledge of a first foreign language, and a a basic knowledge of a second foreign language; 2) a very good knowledge of Italian literature, and of a foreign literature; 3) at least basic knowledges of the history of literary critics and the literary theory; 4)excellent skill in the practice of textual analysis, implying narratology, rhetoric and stylistic; 5)good critical attitude and disposition to the intertextual approaches and readings.

According to the specific educational goals of this degree course, course of study in Comparative Literature aims to give students a deep knowledge of the humanistic culture in its cultural roots and developments in the present age, with a critical approach. Among the other specific goals, it aims to provide: 1) notion and knowledge on the literary genres and their development through the time; 2) a critical knowledge of the intertextual dialogue between literatures, arts, and human sciences; 3) notions of literary criticism and theory of literature; 3) the ability to develop critical issues in different literary texts and cultural areas.

For the academic year 2023-2024 the course will focus on the relationships between literature and intermediality. authors awarded with the Nobel Prize for literature, focusing on their works and provinding both a strong and updated theoretical frame, and a corpus of texts and examples as wide as possibile involving poetry, theater, and other hybrid forms.

At the end of this module, students should:

1) know the historical context and the main critical and theoretical issues the topic involves; 2) know the primary texts in their context and relationships; 3) according to the theories of a intersemiotic dialogue, be able to create interpretations of literary texts and to generalize these interpretations within historical, formal, rhetorical, cultural or other systems of literary analysis; 4) know the literary and aesthetics theory in its fundamental concepts.

The development of critical thinking skills will be tested by a 8.000 words paper focussed on a specific topic connected with the main theme. Interpretative and stylistic analysis of the texts to be conducted through the translation and analysis of 5 pages in the original language.

Literature and Intermediality. The contemporary world.

"Human imagination is essentially intermedial", wrote Pietro Montani. Starting from the definition of 'intermediality' and from some theoretical notions, the course will deal with the relationships between the forms of intermediality and contemporary literature, focusing on cinema and photography as medium. Authors to be analyzed will be Thomas Mann, John Coetzee, Winfried Sebald, Annie Ernaux.

Traditional lessons (36 hours for 6 cfu), round tables, seminars, conferences.

A seminar of Literary Theory, round tables, conferences.

primary texts:

critical texts:

Students have to choose one of the following texts:

Students with Specific Learning Difficulties are encouraged to contact the lecturer at the beginning of the course to arrange individual learning paths suited to their needs, and that could go beyond the compensatory and dispensatory measures guaranteed for the exam.
In general, Students with SLD or disabilities are asked to take note of the university modalities

• of support (https://www.unito.it/servizi/lo-studio/studenti-con-disabilitaopen_in_newopen_in_new),

• of welcoming (https://www.unito.it/accoglienza-studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsaopen_in_newopen_in_new),

• and of the procedures to request support for the exams: https://www.unito.it/servizi/lo-studio/studenti-e-studentesse-con-disabilita/supporto-studenti-e-studentesse-conopen_in_new »