MODERN EUROPEAN LITERATURE

Academic year
2022/2023 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
LETTERATURE EUROPEE MODERNE SP
Course code
FM0551 (AF:378621 AR:206056)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
L-FIL-LET/14
Period
1st Semester
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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The course "Modern European Literatures" is framed in the common curriculum of the Master's Degree Programme "Italian philology and literature".
According to the aims of the Master's Degree and to the areas Literatures and Cultures, the course provides the ability to consolidate advanced critical and methodological instruments and a solid knowledge of European literary texts in italian translation (19th and 20th cent., and debates in their cultural and historical context.

The course is open to interested students attending other Degree Programmes.
Aims of this course are:
a) the ability to analyse critically some of the most significant literary and theoretical texts of the cultural debates subject of the course;
b) the comprehension of these debates in their cultural and historical context;
c) the ability to consolidate critical and methodological instruments;
d) the ability to comprehend and analyze texts and contexts in a competent and autonomous way;
e) the ability to perfectionate comunication and production by an accurate reading of the texts, the discussion in class and and a detailed study of scientific writing;
f) the ability to discuss in seminars and workshops about the subjects of the course.
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COURSE TITLE: The canon of the European modernist novel: 1890-1945.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922), James Joyce (1882-1941), Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Michail A. Bulgakov (1891-1940), Albert Camus (1913-1960)
- James Joyce, Dedalus. Ritratto dell'artista da giovane, traduzione di Cesare Pavese, Adelphi, Milano 2009 (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, prima pubblicazione in volume 1916);
- Franz Kafka, Il processo, traduzione di Paola Capriolo, SE, Milano 2015 (Der Process, scritto 1914-1915, prima pubblicazione, postuma, 1925);
- Marcel Proust, Dalla parte di Swann, a cura di Luciano De Maria, traduzione di Giovanni Raboni, Oscar Classici, Mondadori, Milano 2019 (Alla ricerca del tempo perduto, volume 1) (Du côté de chez Swann, prima pubblicazione 1913);
- Michail Bulgakov, Il maestro e Margherita, traduzione di Vera Dridso, Einaudi, Torino 2014 (Master i Margarita, scritto 1929-1939, pubblicato nel 1966);
- Albert Camus, Lo straniero, traduzione di Alberto Zevi, Bompiani 2013 (L'étranger, prima pubblicazione 1942).

Teaching materials will be provided in pdf format on the course Moodle.
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Regular class sessions. Teaching materials will be provided in pdf format on the course Moodle.
Front lectures and seminars.
Italian
Non attending students will have to contact the teacher (al5@unive.it) and check the moodle of the course for further readings.

All students are kindly requested to check frequently the notices on the lecturer's CF-homepage.
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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

This programme is provisional and there could still be changes in its contents.
Last update of the programme: 19/12/2022