Modern Philology

Metodi e problemi 12 cfu The course is aimed at students of master's degrees who already possess basic knowledge of Romance philology and linguistic and intends to present a case-study (an author, a text or a group of texts, a genre, a problem, a theme, ...) of exemplary importance, placing it into the appropriate historical-literary context, highlighting the most relevant philological problems, inserting it in current discussion on the subject. Specific objectives that are meant to be reached are the acquisition of in-depth expertise and critically evaluated skills around key problems of romance philology; acquisition of a secure methodology of work (critical analysis of the current literature, the ability to work directly out of ancient texts), in relation to the most recent research directions; ability to confront with the current critical literature. Students will develop more advanced critical skills in the analysis of texts through their formal characters and the comparison between related objects, refining the ability of contrastive analysis concerning texts, forms, genres, thematic clusters. Placing itself within a broader didactic development, this didactic unit is aimed at students of master's degrees who already possess basic knowledge of Romance philology and linguistic and intends to present a case-study (an author, a text or a group of texts, a genre, a problem, a theme, ...) of exemplary importance, placing it into the appropriate historical-literary context, highlighting the most relevant philological problems, inserting it in current discussion on the subject. Specific objectives that are meant to be reached are the acquisition of in-depth expertise and critically evaluated skills around key problems of romance philology; acquisition of a secure methodology of work (critical analysis of the current literature, the ability to work directly out of ancient texts), in relation to the most recent research directions; ability to confront with the current critical literature. Students will develop more advanced critical skills in the analysis of texts through their formal characters and the comparison between related objects, refining the ability of contrastive analysis concerning texts, forms, genres, thematic clusters.