Learning objectives

The student learns to deal with the category of "classic" an "literary canon" from a transnational, transdisciplinary and transmedia perspective.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Knowledge of the Italian language

Program

Wednesday 22 May

9.30 Institutional greetings and opening of the proceedings

First session
Chair: Fabio Forner
10.00 Luca Mazzoni (E-Campus University), Dante illustrated between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
10.20 Nicola Catelli (University of Parma), Visions of the "Comedy" in the 19th century: Dante's illustrations by Gustave Doré and Francesco Scaramuzza
10.40 Mattia Petricola (University of L'Aquila), The illustrated "Comedy" and fantasy imagery: notes on Paolo Barbieri's "Inferno"
11.00 Debate
11.20 Coffee Break

Second session
Chair: Nicola Catelli
11.40 Fabio Forner (University of Verona), Illustrated Petrarch: from the 18th to the 19th century
12.00 Giorgio Busi Rizzi (Universiteit Gent) and Lorenzo di Paola (Universiteit Gent – University of Salerno), Pa(pe)rodie: Disney parodies and the Italian canon
12.30 Debate
1.00pm Lunch break

Third session
Chair: Anja Meyer
3.00pm Francesco de Cristofaro (University of Naples Federico II), History of a comic novelist . Manzoni, Balzac and other animals
3.20pm Chiara Battisti (University of Verona), Vertical Visions: Rewriting the Myth of the Frontier in Graphic Cities
3.40pm Claudia Cerulo (University of Naples Federico II), Not-so happy endings. The fairy tale between adaptation and comic research in “And in the end they die. The dirty truth about fairy tales” by Lou Lubie
4.00pm Debate
4.30pm Coffee Break

Round table
Coordination: Luca Mazzoni
5.00pm Paolo Pellegrini and Fabiano Fiorin, The "Divine Comedy" for children: telling and illustrating Dante to the little ones

5.30pm Happy hour at Polo Santa Marta

Thursday 23 May

First session
Chair: Francesco de Cristofaro
10:00 Federica Formiga (University of Verona), The comic genre vs literary classics? No, because
10.20 Silvia Baroni (University of Bologna – University of Verona), The “Illustrated Classics” series by Rizzoli
10.40 Massimo Scotti (University of Messina), “La Scala d'Oro” UTET: a series of plots between text and images
11:00 Debate
11:20 Coffee Break

Second session
Chair: Silvia Baroni
11:40 Chiara Protani (University of Bologna), Graphic Antigone. Adapting classical tragedy into comics and graphic novels
12.00 Francesca Cichetti (University of L'Aquila), A Euripidean graphic novel: Notes on “The Trojan Women” by Rosanna Bruno and Anne Carson
12.20 Maria Arampatzi (University of Siena), Female figures of classical myth in illustrated books: reception in the teaching of children's literature
12.40 Debate
1.00pm Lunch break

Third session
Chair: Chiara Battisti
3.00pm Sidia Fiorato (University of Verona), Alice in the Land of Images: from Lewis Carroll in contemporary interpretations
3.20pm Erika Mihalycsa (University of Cluji), Ulysses in Viennese. Nicolas Mahler's comic stripbooks after Joyce
3.40pm Anja Meyer (University of Verona), Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde between colors and shadows: graphic reinterpretation of a Victorian classic
4.00pm Viviana Triscari (University of Catania), Drawing Bartleby: visual exegesis and transmedia comparisons
4.20pm Debate
4.40pm Coffee Break
5.00pm Closing of proceedings

Didactic methods

Lecture

Learning assessment procedures

Conference attendance
8,000 character report

Exam language

Italiano

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