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Italian Literature within Narrative, Poetry and the Stage [ LROM2851 ]


5.0 crédits ECTS  15.0 h   1q 

Teacher(s) Maeder Costantino ;
Language Italian
Place
of the course
Louvain-la-Neuve
Online resources

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Prerequisites

Baccalaureate in ROM or ROGE, with a minor subject in Italian or equivalent.

Main themes

Depending on the annual program, in this course we study some of the main authors of Italian literature (from the Middle Ages to the XX century). Students are taught to reflect on the genesis of three literary works (one in verse, one in prose, and a play for the theatre) through study of a body of texts and drafts. This allows students to understand the mechanisms and the challenges of writing (on the part of the author), of reading, of interpreting and of editing (in terms of scholarly critique) which all intervene in the production and the reception of literary work.

Aims

By the end of the course, students are expected to be able to:

a) read, analyze and interpret a literary text using the methodologies described and adopted in the course,

b) place a literary text within its cultural, linguistic, aesthetic, literary, and scriptural context,

c) identify and interpret different textual levels and their interactions.

Evaluation methods

Assignments during the course and oral examination during the examination period.

Teaching methods

Lectures with student presentations


 

Content

Decameron's last novella, whose heroine is the peasant girl Griselda, was an astonishing success over various centuries. Petrarch translated it into Latin. His version, in its turn, was retranslated into Italian. Soon afterwards, this novella was to become known all over Europe: translations and adaptations for theatre, opera and cinema, in German, French, English and Italian have followed one another, up to the present.

Bibliography

A series of articles and compulsory reading material can be found on iCampus

Other information

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Cycle et année
d'étude
> Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General
> Master [120] in Performing Arts
> Master [60] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General
> Master [60] in Modern Languages and Literatures : General
> Master [120] in Modern Languages and Literatures : General
> Certificat universitaire en littérature
Faculty or entity
in charge
> ROM


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