- 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)
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