- Docente: Maria Pia Pozzato
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-FIL/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Semiotics (cod. 8886)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to analyze literary texts with semiotic methodology
Course contents
Theories of the most important semioticians of Literature will be introduced. During each lesson, some literary passages will be analyzed. Also high quality Tv Series and advertisement will be considered as a literary text. This year, the course will be partially devoted to the subject of the 'quality' of literary texts.
Readings/Bibliography
For all students, the base-text is the manual of Daniela Panosetti, Semiotica letteraria. Teorie e analisi (Carocci 2015). Some more texts will be assigned to attendees depending on the kind of text they have chosen to be analysed. Who doesn't attend the lessons should write to the teacher to choose a second text for the oral part of the exam (see section "verifica")
Teaching methods
The tools are the traditional ones (speech, power point, hand out)
Assessment methods
The attendees (present for at least 2/3 of the lessons) can choose a text to analyze, individually or in group. Who does not attend, will have to analyse a literary text chosen by the teacher and will have an oral examination on Panosetti's text and on one more text which will be choose with the teacher.
Office hours
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