- Docente: Patrizia Caraffi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Learning outcomes
The student deepens his knowledge of the philological method and Romance literature of the Middle Ages through the "close reading" of a choice of texts. He/She acquires awareness, even theoretical, of the Alterity and Modernity of Medieval literature.
Course contents
How to tragically kill a woman. Gender-based violence in the Middle Ages.
The course will address the unresolved issue of gender-based violence in some exemplary texts of Medieval Romance Literature.
COURSE TIMETABLE, from February, 9th, 2021:
Tuesday 15.30-17.00 FICLIT, Classroom Camporesi
Thursday 17.15-18.45 FICLIT, Classroom Camporesi
Readings/Bibliography
Primary sources:
A)
Maria di Francia, Lais, Carocci: "I due innamorati", "L'usignolo", "Il frassino" (available online)Chrétien de Troyes, Philomena (available online)
La fille du Comte de Ponthieu (available online)
La virago evirata/ La dame escoilee, Ledizioni.
Boccaccio, Decameron, a cura di A. Quondam, M. Fiorilla, G. Alfano, BUR Classici: Proemio, Introduzione alla I giornata; le novelle II, 7 (Alatiel), II, 9 (Bernabò da Genova), IV, 1 (Tancredi), IV, 5 (Elisabetta), IV, 9 (Guglielmo Rossiglione), V, 8 (Nastagio), X, 10 (Griselda) Online in: Decameron Web’ https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/ oppure in ‘Biblioteca Italiana’http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/
Two tests of your choice between:
Chrétien de Troyes, Erec e Enide, Carocci
Philippe de Remi, La Manekine, edizioni dell'Orso
Libro de Apolonio, Carocci
Juan de Flores, Grisel y Mirabella (available online)
Juan Rodríguez del Padrón, Schiavo d'amore, Carocci
B) Bibliography of Secondary texts (essays, articles, volumes).
In progress
C)
Three meetings on the following dates: february, 18th , and 25th, march, 4th, online
Teaching methods
Lessons, seminars and conferences given by external scholars.
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Multimedia devices
Office hours
See the website of Patrizia Caraffi
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.