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Melodrama / Realism: two conflicting approaches in literature, painting, theater, cinema, and music (from Euripides to TV series) (PhD)

Period of duration of course
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Number of course hours
40
Number of hours of lecturers of reference
40
CFU 6
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Modalità esame

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Note modalità di esame

Students must prepare a seminar on a topic related to the monographic theme, not on the texts in the program; purely theoretical and methodological seminars are also welcome.

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Prerequisiti

No prerequisites; the course is designed for doctoral students but is also open to students enrolled in the regular course.

Programma

The course will develop the themes and issues covered in the regular course regarding the interaction between melodrama and realism, focusing primarily on theoretical and methodological questions and exploring the transmedia dissemination of the two approaches.

Obiettivi formativi

The course aims to develop and deepen comparative methodology through monographic courses focused on long-standing themes and their transformations across different eras and cultures, and in different artistic languages and media: literature, theater, cinema, visual arts, and music. Particular attention will also be given to the relationship between literature and other fields of knowledge, such as philosophy, anthropology, cognitive sciences, and historiography, through in-depth seminars, discussions, and supplementary activities assigned to PhD students.

Riferimenti bibliografici

Pedro Almodóvar, Matador, Spagna 1986.

Erich Auerbach, Mimesis. Il realismo nella letteratura occidentale, Torino, Einaudi. 2002.

Honoré de Balzac, Illusioni perdute, Introduzione di Francesco Fiorentino, Milano, Rizzoli, 1995. 

Federico Bertoni, Realismo e letteratura. Una storia possibile, Torino, Einaudi, 2007.

Emily Bronte, Cime tempestose, Milano, BUR, 2017.

Peter Brooks, L'immaginazione melodrammatica, prefazione di Mariolina Bertini, Milano, Il saggiatore, 2023.

Gustave Courbet, Il realismo. Lettere e scritti, Milano, Abscondita, 2024.

Euripide, Ippolito, con testo originale a fronte, a cura di Guido Paduano, Milano, BUR, 2000.

Lazarillo de Tormes, con testo a fronte, a cura di Antonio Gargano, Venezia, Marsilio, 2017.

Roberto Longhi, Caravaggio, Roma, Editori riuniti, 2006.

Alessandro Metlica, Lessico della propaganda barocca, Venezia, Marsilio, 2020.

Emiliano Morreale, Così piangevano. Il cinema melò nell'Italia degli anni Cinquanta, Roma, Donzelli, 2010.

Petronio, Satyricon, con testo originale a fronte, a cura di Andrea Aragosti, Milano, BUR, 1995.

Henry Purcell/Sasha Waltz, Dido and Aeneas, Berlin 2005.

Gianluigi Rossini, Le serie TV, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016.

Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, USA 1955.

Walter Siti, Il realismo dell'avanguardia, Torino, Einaudi, 1975.

Giuseppe Verdi- Alexandre Dumas, La Traviata - La signora delle camelie, Firenze, Passigli, 1985.

Luchino Visconti, Senso, Italia 1954.

Moduli

Modulo Ore CFU Docenti
Modulo 2: Comparatistica (per ordinari e PhD) 20 3 Massimo Fusillo
Modulo 3: Comparatistica e Intermedialità (per PhD) 20 3 Massimo Fusillo
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