- Docente: Patrizia Caraffi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Course contents
Voices and female silence in the Middle Ages
The course aims at studying voices and female silence in significant works of literary genres in the Middle Ages: the lai, the medieval romance, the tale. Volountary or forced silence , such as Fresne, Griselda, Filomela, Silence, who are object of several types of violence, and manage to react; voices of knowledge, as Teodor, Tarsiana, woman musician and poet, and Medea.
Readings/Bibliography
Texts:
Chrétien de Troyes, Philomena
Historia de la doncella Teodor
Heldris di Cornovaglia, Il romanzo di Silence, Carocci
Aucassin e Nicolette , Pratiche or Carocci
Boccaccio, Decameron, a cura di V.Branca (a selection of tales)
Libro de Apolonio , Pratiche or Luni
Essays:
P.Caraffi, Figure femminili del sapere (XII-XV secolo), Carocci
Further bibliographical suggestions will be given at the beginning of the lessons
In front lessons, texts in original Old French and Old Spanish language will be introduced, read, and philologically commented: they will be at students' disposal in photocopy since the beginning of the module
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