SEMINARIO: DIETRO IL TESTO. CREATIVITA' LETTERARIA E ANALISI FILOLOGICA
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The only prerequisite of the seminar is a good attention span in reading the text. Knowledge of the general lines of the history of Italian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, together with a good dose of curiosity, will be elements of help.
For the acquisition of the cfu: attendance of lectures, active participation in collective laboratory activities, delivery of a short text on material agreed with the teacher.
How do great writers work? The seminar intends to lead to the discovery of the “back room” of some great authors, of their work habits. With the investigation of the elaborative materials of some literary works we want to offer the opportunity to reflect on the difficult paths that are hidden behind the static image of literary works sometimes proposed by a certain school teaching or by common opinion.
The first few hours aimed at explaining the historical stages and the methodological bases of the study of the author’s manuscripts, will be followed by meetings intended for the examination of some emblematic cases, chosen from among the central literary works in the Italian cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Particular attention will be paid to the works and reworking practices of Alessandro Manzoni and Gabriele d’Annunzio.
The main topics of the quini seminar will be:
• What’s behind the text: the craftsmanship of the words and the study of the author’s manuscripts
• How Manzoni worked. Author’s philology tested on I Promessi sposi
• I Promessi sposi in the laboratory. Nature, composition and density of some variants
• How d’Annunzio worked. Times, habits and tools in the workshop of the writer Imaginifico
• Francesca da Rimini in the laboratory. Style and poetics in the dynamics of the text.
The learning goals of the course will be achieved through the laboratory mode (16 hours): on the handwritten texts of the authors, students will be invited to practice, individually and in groups, in dialogue with the teacher, to reconstruct the chronology and the motivations of some rewritings particularly significant.
Upon email request (ev.maiolini@uninsubria.it), at the end of the classes.