ROMANCE PHILOLOGY

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Academic year
2015/2016
Teacher
MONICA LONGOBARDI
Credits
12
Didactic period
Secondo Semestre
SSD
L-FIL-LET/09

Training objectives

Control of basic methodological tools and command of fundamental issues of Romance Linguistics (with special attention to the Gallo-, Ibero-romance and Italian
linguistic families) and textual Philology, with an eye on the traditional historical debate and phenomenological problems of circulation and reception of literary
products, in the general dynamics of Mediaeval Manuscript Cultures. Improvement of specialized knowledge of Mediaeval Romance Literatures

Prerequisites

none

Course programme

This course will introduce linguistic and literary analysis of medieval romance texts in prose and verse. The aim is to provide a basic understanding of a range of literary genres in the Middle Ages, to establish a foundation of linguistic competence in romance languages, and to provide an introduction to the comparative study of romance texts. The focus of the course will be on writing from the 12th-14th centuries, particularly in old French and Provencale, traditions which preceded and extensively influenced Italian literature in its earliest stages

Didactic methods

Lectures

Learning assessment procedures

Oral examination to verify linguistic and literary knowledge of Romance Languages.

Reference texts

Bibliography


Le origini delle letterature medievali romanze / Maria Luisa Meneghetti. - 7. ed Roma [etc.] : GLF editori Laterza, 2007 (from chapt. IV forward)

Manuale di linguistica e filologia romanza / Lorenzo Renzi, Alvise Andreose
Bologna : Il mulino, °2003 or 2009 (except chapt. III, IV, VI)

I trovatori : una storia poetica / Michel Zink ; a cura di Federico Saviotti ; premessa di Maria Luisa Meneghetti
Milano ; Udine : Mimesis, 2015.


Lessons will be dedicated to Analysis of a choice of texts from Old French and Old Provençal Literatures. Texts, Translations and specific bibliography will be provided in itinere.

N.B. Who can not attend the lessons or foreign students will have a specific program.
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