SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE 2 MOD. 2
- Academic year
- 2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- LETTERATURE SCANDINAVE 2 MOD. 2
- Course code
- LT40AC (AF:460287 AR:286894)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6 out of 12 of SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE 2
- Degree level
- Bachelor's Degree Programme
- Educational sector code
- L-LIN/15
- Period
- 1st Semester
- Course year
- 2
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Scandinavian Literature 2 module 2 is offered to students of Swedish at the second year of their BA-programme in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, literary-cultural curriculum. Scandinavian Literature 2 (12 ects) is divided into two modules, both in the autumn semester.
Scandinavian Literature 2 (12 ects) can be a freely chosen course for Swedish language students of the other curricula who wish to go deeper into Scandinavian Studies.
History of Scandinavian Culture (6 ects) is offered to students of Swedish at the second year of their BA-programme in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, international-political curriculum. History of Swedish Culture is also included in the literary-cultural curriculum at the third year, and as a freely chosen course it is also available to students of the linguistic-philological curriculum, being recommended to students who wish to go deeper into Scandinavian Studies.
Expected learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to enable students to connect their knowledge of the social, political and cultural history of Scandinavia with the analysis of the proposed literary works, in order to reflect upon Nordic modernity.
Pre-requirements
Contents
The aim of the course is to enable students to connect their knowledge of the social, political and cultural history of Scandinavia with the analysis of the proposed literary works, in order to reflect upon Nordic modernity.
The climate issue, central historically, culturally, economically and politically for Scandinavian countries, appears in different forms in the literature and cinema of the northern countries, spanning genres and themes. The module will address the study of contemporary Scandinavian literary texts and television and film productions through different articulations of the most recent developments in ecocriticism. In particular, we will discuss the relationship between man and nature, the concepts of posthuman and dystopian in relation to the critical environmental and climatic issues.
Referral texts
1) General part: Cultural and literary history
Elisabeth Åsbrink 2018, Made in Sweden. Le parole che hanno fatto la Svezia, Milano: Iperborea 2021 / Orden som formade Sverige
Massimo Ciaravolo 2023, Profilo di storia culturale, sociale e politica del Nord (dagli inizi del 1800 ai giorni nostri), (pdf-file available on Moodle)
2) Materials on eco-criticismo and literature
· Garrard G., Ecocriticism, Routledge (2nd edition)
· Iovino S., Ecologia letteraria. Una strategia di sopravvivenza
· Henning R., Jonasson A.K., Dagerman P. (2018), Nordic narratives of nature and the environment. Ecocritical approaches to northern European literatures and cultures.
· Malmio K., Kurikka K. (2020), Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality, Palgrave Macmillan (cap.1 e 5).
· Altri contributi saranno forniti dal docente e caricati su Moodle
3) Literary works
· Testi scelti di Jacobsen R. (dispensa fornita dal docente)
a)
· Vesaas T., Gli uccelli
. Hamsun K., I germogli della terra
· Magnason A.S., Il tempo e l'acqua
· Lunde M., La storia delle api
· Niemi M., Musica rock da Vittula
· Sjöberg F., L'arte di collezionare mosche
b)
· Ekman K., Il buio scese sull'acqua
· Høeg P., Il senso di Smilla per la neve
· Berg Holm I., La rabbia dell'orsa
4) Film and television
· Ragnarok (Serie TV)
· Okkupert (Serie TV)
· Lamb (Johánsson V., film, 2021)
N.B.: It is necessary to read at least 4 works chosen from parts a) and b), including at least one work from each part (so you cannot choose 4 novels from part a). To these, at least one work is added from part 4 Films and TV series.
Assessment methods
Students not attending the course are asked to come and talk to the professor at least once before the oral examination.
Teaching methods
The course offers mainly frontal lectures, but with moments of participatory learning, as students may, on a voluntary basis, present in class one of the works included in the syllabus. When students present a work in class, they do not have to prepare it again for the examination. Italian is the language used in teaching, and the works will be basically presented and studied in Italian translation.
Teaching language
Further information
Should you have questions or need further explanations, please email the lecturer andrea.romanzi@unive.it. Students' meetings should be booked in advance via e-mail.
Type of exam
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals
This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Natural capital and environmental quality" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development