Learning objectives

The single seminar (Winter School) provides 9 CFU of basic teaching (type A). The Winter School intends to reflect on the contacts, integrations and hybridizations between different literatures with a broad view of entire currents and vast eras, without excluding current issues such as translation practice and relations with the publishing market. It also intends to question current critical approaches that allow young scholars to be provided with the appropriate investigative tools to tackle literary research. At the end of the seminar, doctoral students will have to demonstrate: • ability to independently orient themselves in the historical-cultural relationships relating to their field of study; • awareness of the need for different theoretical and methodological perspectives and critical approaches that are appropriate to the object of study; • awareness of the transcontextual and transcultural importance of the classics; • awareness of the historical-cultural complexity of translations and transcodings across different eras and media (e.g. literature/film text), even in today's world.

Prerequisites and basic notions

not required

Program

Plots 6. "Margins and Borderlines"
Margin suggests ideas of border, extremity, frontier, but also threshold, limit, barrier. In its various declinations, this term – starting point for the sixth edition of the Winter School “Intrecci” of Foreign Literatures and Cultures – allows the exploration of different theoretical, textual, cultural territorialities. The investigation of the margin, of what builds it and makes it (or makes it seem) impassable to become sometimes, and on the contrary, permeable, of the ways in which it is preserved, crossed, corroded or erased, offers a range of fruitfully different paths that intertwine theoretical reflection and creative practice. It therefore makes possible the study of textual, but also geo-political and cultural spatiality, the analysis of problems related to the definition of genres, to the inclusion and exclusion from the canon/s, up to the examination of intertextual, interdiscursive and philological dynamics, as well as broadly interdisciplinary.

Literatures are unstoppable. They stage conflicts, question barriers and cross national, linguistic and political borders, creating fertile interferences and fruitful crossbreeding. As with philosophy, art and music, literatures have always been transversal in history and geography. The Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, Modernism and Contemporary: none of the literatures could have flourished without the others, indeed each one integrates with the others. The Winter School in Foreign Literatures and Cultures of the Doctorate in Foreign Languages and Literatures intends to reflect on the contacts between different literatures, adopting a broad view of entire currents and vast eras. It also intends to question, beyond disciplinary boundaries, the ways to study their connections and the tools to understand them.

Didactic methods

Classes will be held in person, but a Zoom link can be requested from individual instructors and provided at their discretion. Attendance is mandatory.

Learning assessment procedures

PhD students will identify an aspect of the seminar as the topic for their annual term paper, to be prepared under the guidance of one of the supervisors.

Assessment

written report and products of the doctoral student

Scheduled Lessons