32603 - Romance Philology 2 (2nd cycle)

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)

Course contents

The Body and the Voice

The course aims at studying the voice and the female body in significant  works of literary genres in the Middle Ages: the lai, the  medieval  romance,  the tale.

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

Christine de Pizan, La città delle dame, Carocci

Christine de Pizan, Giovanna d'Arco, Le lettere

Essays:

P.Caraffi, Figure femminili del sapere (XII-XV secolo), Carocci

Corpo e cuore, a cura di P. Caraffi, Edioni Odoya - I Libri di Emil

Further bibliographical suggestions will be given at the beginning of the lessons


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