IN-DEPTH SEMINARS OF DISCIPLINARY AREA (LCSM) - MOD. 8

The seminar is part of the Languages, Cultures, and Modern Society curriculum, which encompasses a wide range of linguistic and cultural fields, organized to value differences and specificities while promoting transdisciplinary perspectives.

Doctoral students will be expected to critically analyze fictional and cinematic texts with theoretical awareness from a narratological perspective.

Knowledge and skills verified during the selection process; good understanding of the historical and literary context of Anglo-American literature, excellent command of the English language.

The seminar will address several essays and book chapters that are relevant to the critical debate that has evolved from classical narratology to first- and second-generation post-classical narratology. Particular attention will be given to the development of foundational concepts of voice and focalization, allowing for a critical examination of the formal mechanisms at play in film adaptations of novels. Some sessions will also cover adaptation theory and, more specifically, the language of cinema.

Monika Fludernik, Towards a Natural Narratology (Routledge 1996), chapter 1, “Towards a ‘natural’ narratology”
Monika Fludernik, Towards a Natural Narratology (Routledge 1996), chapter 5, “Reflectorialization and figuralization: the malleability of language”
Monika Fludernik, Towards a Natural Narratology (Routledge 1996), chapter 7, “Games with tellers, telling and told”
Monika Fludernik, “Mediacy, Mediation and Focalization. The Squaring of Terminological Circles”, in Alber, Fludernik (eds.) Postclassical Narratology. Approaches and Analyses. (Ohio State UP, 2010)
Jonathan Culler, “Some Problems concerning Narrators of Novels and Speakers of Poems,” in Sylvie Patron (ed.) Optional-Narrator Theory. Principles, Perspectives, Proposals (University of Nebraska Press, 2021).
Marie-Laure Ryan, Jan-Noël Thon (eds.), Storyworld across Media: Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology, (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), chapter 1 “Story/World/Media: Tuning the Instruments of a Media-Conscious Narratology.”
Jan-Noël Thon, Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture. (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), chapter 4, “The Narrator as a Transmedial Concept.”

The assessment of the acquisition of tools and methodologies will be carried out through the semi-annual evaluations scheduled for current doctoral students.

In-person interactive seminars and conferences

English

not present