Literature Music Performing Arts

The course will focus on different critical methods, especially those developed in the 20th century, studying analysis as well as historical and cultural perspectives. Furthermore, attention will be paid to the authorship issue and transmedia storytelling.

A basic knowledge of the history of European and western literatures; ability to understand written texts in another European language.

- R. BARTHES, “La morte dell’autore”, in Id., Il brusio della lingua, trad. it. B. Bellotto, Saggi Critici IV, Einaudi, Torino 1988, pp. 51-56. - M. FOUCAULT, “Che cos’è un autore?”, in Id., Scritti letterari, trad. it. C. Milanese, Feltrinelli, Milano 1971, pp. 1-21. - F. MUZZIOLI, Le teorie della critica letteraria, Carocci 2003 e edizioni successive. - F. MEDAGLIA, Intermedialità diffusa: la narrazione transculturale metamoderna, Peter Lang, 2024.

On campus

Oral examination: verification of the learned concepts and of the development of skills for the analysis of literary and transmedia texts, plus a short thesis.

This course will be delivered through traditional lessons plus cooperative learning and peer to peer methodology.