| CODE | ITL2016 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Letteratura comparata anglo-italiana: Petrarca e il Petrarchismo inglese | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Italian | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will study the concept of metamorphosis in literature by focusing on a specific tradition of appropriation and transformation. The transfiguring power of literature will be examined in three stages. First, selections from Petrarch's Canzoniere will be read in terms of the poetics of absence and desire. Petrarch's study of the self, caught in the predicament of desiring what can never be attained, will therefore furnish the organizing principle for investigation. Next, Petrarchan and anti-Petrarchan poems by English Renaissance masters of the lyric such as Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser and Donne will be studied. Finally, a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets will be read, with their alternate mockery and acceptance of Petrarchan rhetoric. In the concluding lectures, our excursus will take us from the lyrical tradition to theatre and film. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, with its blend of Petrarchan and anti-Petrarchan modes, will be compared with its cinematic adaptations by Zeffirelli and Luhrmann. In the latter instance, special attention will be given to the profound metamorphosis which the Petrarchan model undergoes as it is transposed from poetry to drama and then into audio-visual art. Reading List - Petrarca, F. (2005) Il canzoniere. Einaudi. - Shakespeare, W. (2010) Sonnets. Arden Shakespeare. - Shakespeare, W. Romeo and Juliet. Arden Shakespeare. 1996. Coursepack of readings comprising a selection of poems in Italian and their translation in English as well as essays on English Petrarchism. Recommended reading: - Thomson, P. (1964) Sir Thomas Wyatt and his Background. Stanford UP. - Kirkpatrick, R. (1995) English and Italian Literature from Dante to Shakespeare. Longman. - D'amico, J. (a cura di) (1979) Petrarch in England. An Anthology of Parallel Texts from Wyatt to Milton. Longo Editore. - Mazzotta, G., The Worlds of Petrarch, Duke UP, 1993. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | This study-unit is taught and assessed in Italian. | ||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Glen Bonnici Gloria Lauri Lucente (Co-ord.) |
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