5 credits
15.0 h
Q2
This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2017-2018
Teacher(s)
Maeder Costantino; Mélan Amandine (compensates Maeder Costantino);
Language
Italian
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of written and spoken Italian (level B2 of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) ; basic understanding of narratology.
Main themes
In this seminar, we will study the connection born out of the mythic and literary transposition between the transposed text and the text to be transposed. This discourse pertains the rewriting of a narrative text in a dramatic text, lyrical or cinematographical.
Students will either analyse the transposition/rewriting of a novel into another genre (theatre, lyric opera, sculpture, cinematographic script, tableau), either rewrite a narrative text in a theatrical text. We will privilege franco-italian themes such as, for instance, the rewriting of French works in Italy or the rewriting of Italian pieces in France.
Students will either analyse the transposition/rewriting of a novel into another genre (theatre, lyric opera, sculpture, cinematographic script, tableau), either rewrite a narrative text in a theatrical text. We will privilege franco-italian themes such as, for instance, the rewriting of French works in Italy or the rewriting of Italian pieces in France.
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1 | To be able to analyse the relationship between the hypotext and the hypertext, between the text to be transposed and the transposed text. To know how to recognize the strategies of rewriting. To know how to interpret the effects of rewriting. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
Traumas, grand narratives, and war. Most literary works rewrite the same questionings, at deep level. Literature is often haunted by social traumas. As a consequence, the most disparate texts, stemming from different genres, enter a complex, diachronic game of communication.
We will study in this course traumatic events and their literary representation as well as their influence on the characters. We will deal essentially with World War I and II.
The main question of this seminary is the following: How try writers to represent literally what cannot be expressed in words?
Selection of writers :
' Umberto Saba
' Giorgio Bassani
' Giuseppe Ungaretti
' Cesare Pavese
' Bebbe Fenoglio
' Italo Calvino
' Ornela Vorpsi (guerra dei balcani)
' Lalla Romano
We will study in this course traumatic events and their literary representation as well as their influence on the characters. We will deal essentially with World War I and II.
The main question of this seminary is the following: How try writers to represent literally what cannot be expressed in words?
Selection of writers :
' Umberto Saba
' Giorgio Bassani
' Giuseppe Ungaretti
' Cesare Pavese
' Bebbe Fenoglio
' Italo Calvino
' Ornela Vorpsi (guerra dei balcani)
' Lalla Romano
Teaching methods
In the introductory sessions, the lecturers will present the corpus, the issue and the theoretical approaches to be used. The seminars will continue with personal supervision of students' research work. The final sessions will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of the work done.
Evaluation methods
June Session
' Presentation of a paper and discussion (50%)
' Scientific paper (50%)
September Session
' Presentation of a paper and discussion (50%)
' Scientific paper (50%)
' Presentation of a paper and discussion (50%)
' Scientific paper (50%)
September Session
' Presentation of a paper and discussion (50%)
' Scientific paper (50%)
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