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SINOPOLI FRANCA
(programma)
Il corso introduce gli studenti allo studio dei temi principali della World Literature o letteratura mondiale: il dibattito sul canone, la traduzione, il transnazionalismo e la metodologia comparatistica.
Il corso si svolgerà in modalità "directed study" e in due fasi:
a) introduzione alla World Literature con analisi dei testi principali in cui è stata teorizzata (lingue inglese e francese)
b) ciclo di seminari tenuti da un visiting professor
c) assegnazione di lavori di ricerca agli studenti (research paper)
This course is focused on the basic topics of World Literature: international and transnational canon debate, translation of literatures and cultures, transnationalism and comparatism.
"A directed study is a coherent, well-defined, substantive reading and research project supervised by a faculty member, usually resulting in a major written document. It is not credit for work experience. Rather, it offers the student an opportunity to explore in detail a carefully defined area of special concern, as well as a chance to work under the close supervision of a faculty member" (Boston University)
The course will consist of:
a) a general introduction to the history and theory of the concept of World Literature
b) research paper assignment
READINGS (a selection)
Ben Etherington, Jarad Zimbler (Eds), World Literature, Cambridge University Press 2018
https://assets.cambridge.org/97811084/71374/frontmatter/9781108471374_frontmatter.pdf (table of contents)
César Dominguez Prieto, World Literature and Cosmopolitanism Studies,
In: The Routledge Companion to World Literature. Eds. Theo D’haen, David Damrosch and Djelal Kadir, Routledge 2012. 242-52.
https://www.academia.edu/1146426/World_Literature_and_Cosmopolitanism_Studies
David Damrosch, What is World Literature?, Princeton UP 2003
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7545.html (table of contents)
David Damrosch's essay ‘World Literature as Figure and as Ground’ (2014) can be read online here: .
Christopher Prendergast (Editor), Debating World Literature, Verso 2004
http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/370839897.pdf (table of contents)
Mads Rosendhal Thomsen, Mapping World Literature. International Canonization and Transnational Literatures, Continuum 2008
http://stateofthediscipline.acla.org/entry/world-famous-locally-insights-study-international-canonization (state of the discipline, by M. Rosendhal Thomsen)
Theo D'haen, The Routledge Concise History of World Literature, Routledge 2012
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415495899/ (table of contents)
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