IN-DEPTH SEMINARS OF DISCIPLINARY AREA (LCSM) - MOD 7

The doctoral programme in Modern Languages, Cultures and Societies, as well as Language Sciences, offered by the Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies, is distinguished by its multidisciplinary focus and commitment to enhancing linguistic and cultural diversity. The wide range of languages available in the Department—some of which are unique among universities in Italy—combined with the quality and innovation of research, creates an ideal environment for a doctoral programme that aims to train highly specialized professionals in the analysis of texts and linguistic-cultural phenomena, as well as in theoretical, applied, and educational, linguistic research. This doctoral programme, continuing from the previous five-year period, is aligned with the Department's project for Excellence development, which includes the provision of three additional scholarships linked to the themes of the project.
The course is characterized by the intersection of two distinct curricula: Modern Languages, Cultures, and Societies, and Language Sciences. Each curriculum is distinguished by the wide range of themes and contexts it addresses, as well as by innovative methodological approaches that promote multidisciplinary training.

The curriculum in Modern Languages, Cultures, and Societies covers a variety of linguistic and cultural fields, including American Studies, English Studies, French Studies, German and Scandinavian Studies, Iberian and Ibero-American Studies, as well as Slavistics and Balkan Studies. This curriculum aims to highlight differences and specificities that enhance a transdisciplinary perspective. Various critical approaches to literary and cultural traditions are incorporated, from textual analysis to philological, linguistic, and cultural-historical analyses. Different methodologies are employed, including comparative, translational, and historical-linguistic approaches.

The in-depth study of eighteenth-century English culture and literature will serve as a basis for the doctoral students' specialist research on topics related to that period.

The seminar is aimed exclusively at Licuso (Modern Languages, Cultures and Societies) PhD students in the subject area ANGL/01 (English Literature/Anglo-American Languages and Literatures)

The seminar will analyse: the context of 18th century culture: Neoclassicism; the reflections of the Glorious Revolution in politics and culture; whig and tory culture; the querelle des anciens et des modernes; literary clubs; the formation of public opinion; the relationship between domestic and public space; the professionalisation of women's writing; the ‘rise of the novel’; the constitution of the ‘realist’ canon and its contestation; other alternative canons; women's romance and ‘secret histories’; status fiction and stories of virtue; the feminist revision of the canon.
In addition, the reception of the eighteenth century in the nineteenth century will also be examined in W. M. Thackeray's rewriting of the eighteenth century in ‘The Luck of Barry Lyndon’, including its film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick (also part of seminar R25221).

Jürgen Habermas, "Storia e critica dell’opinione pubblica"
Michael McKeon, "The Secret History Of Domesticity: Public, Private, and The Division Of Knowledge"
Betty A. Schellenberg, "The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain"
Ian Watt, "The Rise of the Novel"
Michael McKeon, "The Origins of the English Novel"
W.M. Thackeray, "The Luck of Barry Lyndon"
Stanley Kubrick, "Barry Lyndon".

The assessment will be carried out in accordance with the doctoral tutor during the periods stipulated in the rules of the doctoral programme.

Lectures, seminars, discussion of the scheduled texts, commented viewing of films.

English

The schedule for the seminar meetings will be arranged with the doctoral students involved and will be published on the doctoral course calendar.

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