Ateneo - UPO

Theoretical-methodological part: Spaces, chronotopes and heterotopias of the literary imagination.

Focus seminar: Experience and imagination in prison narrative.

Theoretical-methodological part: : Spaces, chronotopes and heterotopias of the literary imagination

Mikhail Bakhtin, Forms of time and of the chronotope in the novel, "in The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M.M.. Translated by Caryl Emerson & Michael Holquist, University of Texas Press, 1981, pp. 84-258, 198.

Gaston Bachelard, La poétique dello spazio, éd. Gilles Hieronimus, Paris, Puf, 2020;

Michel Foucault, Le corps utopique ; suivi de Les hétérotopies, Paris, Lignes, 2009

Focus seminar: Experience and imagination in prison narrative

Jack London, The Star Rover (or The Jacket) (any edition)

Antonio Gramsci, Lettere dal carcere, Torino, Einaudi;

Italo Calvino, Il Conte di Montecristo, in Id, Ti con zero, Milano, Mondadori;

Goliarda Sapienza, L’università di Rebibbia Torino, Einaudi.

Antoine Volodine, Le post-exotisme en dix leçon. Leçon onze, Paris, Gallimard

MOVIES
1. Don Siegel, Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
or
1.a. Franklin J. Schaffner, Papillon (1973);

2. Leonardo Di Costanzo, Aria ferma (2021)

3. Cristiana Farina, Mare fuori (2020) (I stagione)
or
3.a. Jenji Kohan, Orange is the New Black (2013) (I season).

Supplementary readings for non-attending students:

Theoretical-methodological part
Giulio Iacoli, Gli spazi della letteratura, in Stefania Sini, Franca Sinopoli (a cura di), Percorsi di teoria e comparatistica letteraria, Milano-Torino, Pearson, 2021 (cap.16);

Focus seminar:

Michel Foucault, Surveiller et punir. Naissance de la prison, Paris, Gallimard

- A fourth movie to be chosen.

For further insights
Monika Fludernik, Metaphors of Confinement. The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Non-attending Students are invited to contact me in time for clarification on the program

The theoretical-methodological part is dedicated to investigating the role of the representation of spaces in literature and its teaching, with particular attention to the historical phenomenology of represented spaces, to the stylistic, rhetorical and narratological modes of representation and to the relationship between imaginative elaboration and real worlds of reference.

the contemporary dedicated to fictional and non-fictional narratives of the prison experience, with particular attention to the representation of the incarcerated body, the perceptions of space and time, imaginative life and communication between prisoners, and in relation to the stylistic, rhetorical and narratological choices characteristic of each work.

Knowledge, acquired during the precedent three years, of history of Italian, European and World literature; basic knowledge of critic and theory of literature.

Frontal lessons, text reading and text, and film analysis, discussions.
During the course, students who wish, singularly or in a group, can present to the class a text or a film, or part of the program.

Dir website will be used, uploading materials that will constitute an indispensable part of the preparation of the exam by the attending students.

Pc and video projector in the classroom are required

Students can choose between the written and the oral form of examination in presence.

The examination, either in oral form or in written, includes
1)Theoretical-methodological part: one or more questions related to the role of the representation of spaces in literature and its teaching, with particular attention to the historical phenomenology of represented spaces, to the stylistic, rhetorical, and narratological modes of representation and to the relationship between imaginative elaboration and real worlds of reference.

2) Focus seminar: analysis, interpretation, and comment of an excerpt from one or more literary texts or from one of the films in the program dedicated to the narration of the prison experience, with particular attention to the representation of the incarcerated body, the perceptions of space and time, the imaginative life and communication between prisoners, and in relation to the stylistic, rhetorical and narratological choices characteristic of each work.

The student is thus asked to demonstrate:

1. KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge of the fundamental conceptual nuclei focused on during the course concerning the role of the representation of spaces in literature and its teaching, with particular attention to the historical phenomenology of represented spaces, the stylistic, rhetorical, and narratological modes of representation, and the relationship between imaginative elaboration and real worlds of reference.

In-depth knowledge of the texts and films included in the path dedicated to the narration of the prison experience, with particular attention to the representation of the incarcerated body, the perceptions of space and time, the imaginative life and communication between prisoners, and in relation to the stylistic, rhetorical and narratological choices characteristic of each work.

COMPETENCES
Acquisition of some fundamental notions of literary criticism, literary theory, and aesthetics of literature related to the role of space in literary experience and its teaching, their critical use in the analysis and commentary of a text, and their active and interactive use in the teaching of literature.
Acquisition of the methodological tools presented and discussed during the course for the construction of monographic didactic paths that pay attention both to the thematic aspects and to the stylistic-compositional aspects of the works examined.
Acquisition of methodological tools for teaching reading, analysis, and commentary on the literary text, with particular attention to stylistic, rhetorical, and narratological analysis.

3.
TRANSVERSALS SKILLS
Being able how to present with clarity and argumentative effectiveness, using the appropriate terminology, the results of the readings carried out.
In particular, the following weight will be given to the verification of the aforementioned achievement of the training objectives: 1. 40%; 2. 40%; 3. 20%;

N.B. The evaluation of the written exam will include grammatical correctness (orthography, morphology, syntax).

In order to achieve the knowledge and skills corresponding to the minimum level of sufficiency, the student is asked to demonstrate:

1. KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge of the fundamental conceptual nuclei focused on during the course regarding the role of the representation of spaces in literature and its teaching, with particular attention to the historical phenomenology of represented spaces, the stylistic, rhetorical, and narratological modes of representation, and to the relationship between imaginative elaboration and real worlds of reference.

In-depth knowledge of the texts and films included in the path dedicated to the narration of the prison experience, with particular attention to the representation of the incarcerated body, the perceptions of space and time, the imaginative life and communication between prisoners, and in relation to the stylistic, rhetorical and narratological choices characteristic of each work.

2. COMPETENCES
Knowledge of some basic notions of literary critics, theory, and aesthetics of literature regarding the dialogical aspects of the literary experience, and of its teaching, their critical use in analyzing and commenting a text, and their active and interactive use in teaching literature.
Acquisition of the methodological tools presented and discussed during the course for the construction of monographic didactic paths that pay attention both to the thematic aspects and to the stylistic-compositional aspects of the works examined.
Acquisition of methodological tools for teaching reading, analysis, and commentary on the literary text, with particular attention to narratological analysis and the forms of the reported speech.

3.TRANSVERSALS SKILLS
the ability to argumentation, with clear and precise terminology.

Knowing how to evaluate a work as an aesthetic object stratified in its context of origin, in its main structural and compositional elements, and in its historical, ideological, and social vitality.
Knowing how to move in front of a text between a synthetic understanding of the whole and analytical articulation of the details.

To achieve an advanced level, the student must demonstrate:
A global and unitary understanding of the path of the course, with the acquired complementarity between theoretical-methodological skills and interpretative skills.
The ability to autonomously re-elaborate the contents of the course and to apply the tools and knowledge acquired to texts and materials, including other ones than those in the program.
The active and confident competence in critical and theoretical terminology combined with excellent appropriate expression.