MIDDLE AGE ROMANCE IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- LUCA GATTI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-FIL-LET/09
Training objectives
- The course provides a historical-literary formation: students will be able to evaluate and appreciate, in the context of contemporary literature, literary forms and themes that come from medieval romance literature.
- Knowledge and understanding: by the end of the course the student will possess basic notions relating to medievalisms, and will be able to read and comment on the texts studied within the course, also establishing links with other literary products.
- Applying knowledge, understanding and judgments making: by the end of the course the student will be able to establish links between the texts that are the subject of the course and not (even with non literary expressions).
- Communication skills: by the end of the course the student will be able to communicate and share information in an appropriate and clear vocabulary.
- Learning skills: by the end of the course the student will comprehend, independently, basic critical and literary bibliography. Prerequisites
- None. Knowledge of French is unnecessary.
Course programme
- The term “medievalism” defines “the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages”. The course will start from the description of medievalisms in the contemporary world, with particular reference to novels, poetry, theatre literature (but we will extend the horizon to other expressive media, such as cinema, television series, video games, etc.). Peculiar case of interest, and which will be the subject of a specific investigation, is that of the Occitan, who has started a literary production of absolute importance in the European context from the 19th to 21st century (but Occitan is anchored, linguistically and culturally, to his medieval phase).
The second part of the course will focus on Franco Scataglini (1930-1994), one of the greatest Italian poets of the second half of 21st century, and in particular on one of his works, La rosa, which is a poetic version of a real medieval “best seller”, the Roman de la Rose, a famous allegorical poem composed by two different authors in the thirteenth century. Quoting Roberto Antonelli, La rosa “is the non-literal but faithful translation” of the Roman de la Rose.
Reading and commentary of passages from La rosa will be given, by comparing them to the Old French model, in order to explore Scataglini’s compositional technique. Didactic methods
- Frontal lessons; reading, translation and commenting of texts.
Learning assessment procedures
- Oral examination.
Reference texts
- M. Longobardi, F. Conte (a cura di), Medievalismi, Roma : Aracne, 2020.
M. Longobardi, Il giardino e la rosa : tre saggi per Franco Scataglini, Milano ; Udine : Mimesis, 2018.
Non-attending students will be provided with a specific bibliography suitable for an independent preparation of the exam and, where appropriate, according to their linguistic abilities. Please, contact the professor by Unife email.
