30129 - History of Literary Criticism (LM)

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)

Course contents

CRISIS / LITERARY CRITICISM / LITERATURE

Period: Second semester (april-may 2012)

Timetable of lessons, classrooms etc: See Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature website

Readings/Bibliography

I. Novels

·      Don DeLillo, Underworld (1997), Einaudi

·      Philip Roth, Pastorale americana (1997), Einaudi

 

II. Critical Texts

·      Francesco Muzzioli, Le teorie della critica letteraria, Carocci

·      Daniele Giglioli, Oltre la critica, in XXI secolo, vol. 2: Comunicare e rappresentare, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana (il testo potrà essere scaricato dai Materiali didattici dell'insegnamento)

·      Reinhart Koselleck, Crisi, in Il vocabolario della modernità, Il Mulino, pp. 95-109

·      Mario Lavagetto, Eutanasia della critica, Einaudi

 

Teaching methods

Class lessons

Assessment methods

At the end of the course the students will take an oral examination, with questions on topics and texts analyzed.

Teaching tools

Slides, Power point. For further teaching material see the website.

Links to further information

http://www.unibo.it/SitoWebDocente/default.htm?UPN=federico.bertoni@unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Federico Bertoni