B020973 - PRACTICE AND METHODOLOGY OF LITERARY TEXTS' ANALYSIS

Italian

Basic theoretical and technical instruments to analyze modern poetry and prose. The course will focus specifically on the following subjects: Theoretical and practical analysis of the poetic text; Theoretical and practical analysis of the narrative text; Theoretical and practical analysis of the translated text; Brief introduction to inter-media texts.
Supplementary module for the Workshop (Prof. Bacchereti): Brief introduction on modern theories and types of short narration.

Francesco Muzzioli, L'analisi del testo letterario, Edizioni Empiria, Roma, 2012; La forma breve della narrazione, by Loretta Innocenti, Pacini 2013. Further consultation and practice material will be distributed in photocopies during the course, or uploaded on the Moodle platform of the Ateneo.

Knowledge:
- acquisition of theoretical and technical competence to interpret texts of modern poetry and prose.
- Historical and theoretical knowledge of the different forms of modern short narration.
Competence:
- ability to autonomously interpret a literary text, with reference to the analysis of style and themes of narrative and poetic works.
- Ability to autonomously decipher the structure, style and themes of works of modern short narration
Behaviour:
- stimulate a productive collaboration between teacher and students and among the students themselves.
- Stimulate the habit to compare the interpretations of a work and discussing the results of the study.

Workshop: concise introductory lectures, class exercises.

Supplementary module on short narration (Prof. Bacchereti). Being a supplementary module of 6 hours, full attendance is mandatory. The precise date of the three lessons will be communicated at the beginning of the Laboratory on the analysis of the text conducted by professor Teresa Spignoli.

The qualifying examination will be written. The student will be asked to produce a brief analysis of a poem and of a short prose text.

The laboratory focuses on the interaction between the theoretical study of modern poetry (prosody, metre, rhetorical figures, structures and verse) and prose (forms and genres of narrative communication, analysis of characters, rhetorical and linguistic tools), and the guided practice in class. Concerns related to translation and inter-media texts will also be briefly introduced. The supplementary module includes brief theoretical introductions on modern short narration, to identify its technical and formal features, modes and genres. Then students will be requested to collectively carry out the analysis of modern Italian and foreign (in translation) short narratives. The material to be used during the practical exercises under the supervision of the teacher will be handed out during the course. The final test includes a written autonomous analysis of a brief poem and a prose text, set up according to current publishing norms.