Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2501801 Catalan and Spanish | OT | 3 | 0 |
2501801 Catalan and Spanish | OT | 4 | 0 |
2501902 English and Catalan | OT | 3 | 0 |
2501902 English and Catalan | OT | 4 | 0 |
2501907 English and Classics | OT | 3 | 0 |
2501907 English and Classics | OT | 4 | 0 |
2501910 English and Spanish | OT | 3 | 0 |
2501910 English and Spanish | OT | 4 | 0 |
2501913 English and French | OT | 3 | 0 |
2501913 English and French | OT | 4 | 0 |
Not applicable
The subject Italian Art and Literature aims to be, on the one hand, an introduction to the methodology of the study of the interrelationship between arts and literature and, on the other, an analysis of this interrelationship throughout history in four different fields:
Aims and Objectives
At the end of the course the student must demonstrate
This course of "Italian Art and Literature" wants to be a different and joint look directed at some moments of Italian art and literature of great importance both in terms of Italian and international culture. The difficult choice we have made tries to focus attention on some of the most relevant moments, authors and artists. The readings we propose are the following:
Dante, Comedy (Hell; songs 1, 5, 13, and 26; Purgatory: songs X-XII; Paradise: song 1 (dossier))
Petrarch, Sonnets of the Canzoniere (dossier)
Boccaccio, Decameron (selection) (dossier)
Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting (electronic resource)
19th and 20th century Sicilian writers: Vittorini, Conversazioni in Sicilia
Futurism: manifestos
Anna Banti, Artemisia
Methodology of comparative analysis between literature and the arts
Literature and other arts: how literature speaks to visual art. Questions of method.
1.2. Themes, motifs and myths
1.3. crossed poetics
1.4. Ecphrases
2. Some examples of the interrelation between painting and literature:
2.1. Middle Ages and Renaissance
Dante's Commedia (Hell 1, 3, 13, 26, 34; Purgatory 10-12; Paradise) (dossier)
2.1.2 The Canzoniere (sonnets) and the Triumphs (anthology) of Petrarch (dossier)
2.1.2.1 The portrait of the lady: Lorenzo dei Medici, Pietro Bembo, Giovanni della Casa, Gaspara Stampa (dossier)
2.1.3. Boccaccio and the Arts (story about Giotto, Decameron, day VI, narration V)
2.1.4. Individual and art in the Renaissance:
2. 1. 4.1. Leoan Battista Alberti, De pictura
2.1. 4.2. Leonardo, Trattato della pittura (http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/download/texto/lb000840.pdf)
2.1.4.2. Machiavelli, La mandragola.
3. Modern and contemporary Italian art and literature:
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Some examples:
3.2.1 Futurism.
3.2.2. Painting and metaphysical narrative (De Chirico, Savinio)
3.2. 3. Sicilian Photography, Art and Literature
3.2.4.1. Giovanni, Verga, the photograph
3.2.4.2. Elio Vittorini, Conversazione in Sicilia
3.2.5. The recovery of Caravaggio: literature and genre painting:
Anna Banti, Artemisia.
The course will have two successive blocks. The first block will deal with the subject in Italian literature from Dante to the Renaissance and the second in the period from Realism (19th century) to the middle of the 20th century.
The subject of Italian Arts and Literature is theoretical-practical. In general terms, learning activities are organised as follows:
-Directed activities: master class; collective discussion; reading, interpreting and commenting on texts.
- Supervised activities: individual and group exercises, both written and oral; reading, interpreting and commenting on texts.
- Autonomous activities: exercises on the course’s Moodle; preparation for the tests; readings, writing, search of documentation...
- Class exchanges (teacher-student, student-student)
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Classes with active participation | 30 | 1.2 | 2, 1, 12, 11, 3, 6, 8, 7, 10 |
Reading and commenting on texts | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 12, 11, 3, 6, 8, 7 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Reading and commenting on texts | 25 | 1 | 2, 1, 12, 11, 3, 6, 8, 7, 10, 13 |
Study of texts, materials and bibliography | 25 | 1 | 2, 1, 12, 11, 3, 6, 8, 7, 13 |
1 Assesment is continuous (100%) and based on the following sections:
- Follow-up and participation in class 30%.
- Reviews / Essais on some films / books 40 %
- Synthesis test 30%.
2. Lecturers will inform about the revision dates of each assesment activity once they have been qualified.
3. The student will receive a grade of Non-assessable if he/she has not submitted more than 30% of the assessment activities.
4. In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
5. In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
6. The tasks most directly related to the teaching activity in class are excluded from the re-assesment process.
7. Re-assesment will consist of a synthesis test on the part in question.
8. Italian Erasmus students should consult the Lecturer about their particular evaluation requirements.
9. The responsibility for monitoring training and assessment activities lies exclusively with the student.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Participation during the course: attendance, team and individual activities. | 30 | 15 | 0.6 | 12, 11, 6, 8 |
Reviews, written works and oral presentations relating to the works | 40 | 25 | 1 | 12, 11, 5, 4, 8, 7, 10, 9, 13 |
Synthesis test | 30 | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 1, 12, 11, 3, 6, 8, 7 |
Theoretical and critical bibliography
Boulnois, O., Au-delà de l'image. Une archéologie du visuel au Moyen Âge Ve-XVIe siècle, París: Seuil, 2008.
Ciccuto, M., Figure d’artista. La nascita delle immagini alle origini della literatura. Fiesole: Cadmo, 2002.
Ciccuto, M., Icone della parola. Immagini e scrittura nella letteratura delle origini. Mucchi, 1995.
Ciccuto, M., L’immagine del testo. Episodi di ultura figurativa nella letteratura italiana. Bonacci, 1990.
Cometa, M., La scrittura delle immagini. Letteratura e cultura visuale, Milà: Raffaelo Cortina, 2012.
Crivelli, R. Gli accordi paralleli letteratura e le arti visive del Novecento. Bari: Adriatica, 1979.
Fagone, V. (ed.). Arte e letteratura. Dal futurismo ad oggi. Bergamo: Lubrna, 1998
Franceschetti, A. (ed.). Letteratura e arti figurative. Atti del II Convegno dell’Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana. Firenze: Olschki, 1988.
Pantini, E. "La literatura y las demás artes", en Gnisci, A. (ed.), Introducción a la literatura comparada, Barcelona: Crítica, 2002, pp. 215-240.
Guillén, C. Entre lo uno y lo múltiple. Barcelona: Crítica, 1985.
Mengaldo, Pier Vincenzo. Tra due linguaggi. Arti figurative e critica. Torí: Bollati Borenghieri, 2005.
Monegal, A (ed.). Literatura y pintura. Madrid: Arco, 2000.
Praz, M. Mnemosyne. Parallelo tra la letteratura e le arti visive. Milà: Mondadori, 1971.
Welleck, R. I Warren, A., Teoría literaria. Madrid: Gredos, 1981, cap. XI, pp. 149-167.
Required readings
- Dante, Comedia: selección de cantos (dosier electrónico)
- Petrarca, Los Triunfos y otros textos (dosier electrónico)
- Boccaccio, Decameron, Barcelona: Edicions 62 (Madrid: Cátedra, 2007).
- Maquiavelo, La mandrágora, en Teatre del Renaixement, Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1985 (Madrid: Tècnos, 2008).
- Leon Battista Alberti, Sobre la pintura (recurso electrónico).
- E. Vittorini, Conversación en Sicília, Madrid: Gadir, 2004.
- A. Banti, Artemisia, Barcelona: Alfabia, 2008