| CODE | MAL5022 | ||||||
| TITLE | Maltese Language and Literature | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Maltese | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit discusses Maltese authors of different literary genres from various points of view. The aesthetic aspect together with the hermeneutic experience and stylistics will be applied to several Maltese literary works including Maltese drama in the post-independence period. By means of these literary features, the Maltese national identity is clearly highlighted. It will also sketch the linguistic history of Malta in the theoretical framework of linguistic stratigraphy, language contact and language shift. Study-unit Aims The aims of this study-unit is to demonstrate to prospective students how to analyze Maltese literary works from a critical point of view and to be able to interpret such works in different ways. Thus a clear definition of the national identity emerges according to various Maltese writers and also according to different ways of expression. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Possess an updated view of the structure of the Maltese language that will go beyond the traditional “ours” – “not ours” dichotomy. - Understand aesthetically the whole process of a literary work within spatial and temporal limits; - Recognize and decipher the cumulative efforts assimilated by Maltese paradigms and symbols along their past literary and cultural usage; - Gain an overview of the development of Maltese fiction; - Understand the development of Maltese theatre and drama especially for the post-independence period; - Gain an understanding of nations as “imagined communities” and an awareness of the role of Maltese literature in the construction of identity and the nation 2. Skills (including transferable [generic] skills): By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - To compare Maltese aesthetic writings with other such works by foreign writers of the same period; - Relate each part of the literary work to its provisional totality or conjectured whole; - Appreciate the literary efforts and merits of the Maltese novelists during the 19th and 20th centuries; - Relate Maltese theatrical works with the history of European and world theatre; - Analyze the creation of new conceptual metaphors that shape our imaginary through the extension of conventional conceptual metaphors. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings - Attard, J., “Il-Letteratura u s-Soċjetà – Studju Dijakroniku tal-Ħsieb Estetiku Malti” in. Zammit-Ciantar J. (ed.), Fora Melitensia, Numru 1, Malta, 2004, pp. 1 – 14 - Cassola A., The Biblioteca Vallicelliana “Regole per la lingua Maltese”, Malta, Said International, 1992 - Cassola A., Il “Mezzo Vocabolario Maltese-Italiano del ’700”, Malta, Said International, 1996 - Cachia L., L-Ewwel Dizzjunarju Malti-Taljan, Valletta, Pubblikazzjoni Mużew ta’ San Ġwann, 1999 - Brincat J.M., Half a dictionary… and two bits, The Sunday Times, September 29, 1996, pp. 54 – 55 - Vella O., L-Għejjun tal-Istorja tal-Ilsien Malti, M.A. Thesis, Maltese, 2006, pp. 80 – 93 - Agius D., Siculo Arabic, Kegan Paul International, London, and New York, 1996 - Aquilina J., Paper in Maltese Linguistics, Malta University Press, Malta, 1961 - Borg A. and Alexander M., Maltese, Lingua descriptive Grammars, London, 1997 - Borg A., “Maltese Phonology”, in A.S. Kaye (ed.), Phonologies of Asia and Africa, vol. 1, Indiana, 1997, pp. 245-285 - Brincat J. M., Il-Malti. Elf sena ta’ storja, PIN, 2000 (2nd edition 2005) - Brincat G., Malta. Una storia linguistica, Le Mani, Genova, 2004 - Brincat J.M., “Malta”, in K. Versteegh (gen. ed.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, vol. III, 2008, pp. 141-145 - Brincat J.M., Maltese and other languages, Midsea Books, Malta, 2010 - Cremona J., “The Romance Element in Maltese: a Review of the Problems” in Transactions of the Philological Society, 88:2 (1990), pp. 163-199 - Cremona J., “ The Romance Element in Maltese: the Sicilian centuries”, in M.M.Parry et al (eds.), The Changing Voices of Europe, Cardiff, 1994, pp. 281-294 - Kaye A.S. and Rosenhouse J., “Arabic Dialects and Maltese”, in R. Hetzron (ed.), The Semitic Languages, London and New York, 1997, pp. 263-311 - Mifsud M., Loan Verbs in Maltese. A descriptive and comparative study, Brill, Leiden, 1995 - Mifsud M., “Maltese” in K. Versteegh (gen. ed.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, vol. III, 2008, pp. 146-159 - Vanhove M., “Malta” in Encyclopedia of Islam, vol. VI, Brill, Leiden, 1991, pp. 295-303 - Varvaro A., Lingua e storia in Sicilia, vol. I, Palermo, 1981 - Varvaro A., “Maltese e siciliano: varietà a contatto nel tempo”, in R. Sardo e G. Soravia, Continuità e contiguità linguistica e culturale, Catania, 1989 - Attard J., L-Estetika Maltija – Antoloġija Kritika, Mireva Publications, Malta, 1997 - Beardsley M.C., Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present – A Short History, University of Alabama Press, Alabama, 1997 - Townsend D., An Introduction to Aesthetics, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, U.K., 1997 - Lyas C., Aesthetics: Fundamentals of Philosophy, Routeledge, London, 1997 - Fenech V., F’Altimira – Poeproża, Publikazzjoni Gulf, Malta, 1979 - Fenech V., Sajonara – ħsibijiet stil ħajku / thoughts haiku style, Gutenberg Press, Malta, 1999. - Friggieri O., Poeżiji, Mireva Publications, Malta, 1998 - Mizzi A., Poeżiji, Mireva Publications, Malta, 1993 - Gadamer H.G., Truth and Method (trans. By Weinsheimer J. and Marshall D.G.), Sheed and Ward Ltd., London, 1989 (2nd ed.) - Ricoeur P., The Conflict of Interpretations, Northwestern University Press, Illinois, 1974 - Ricoeur P., Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning, Texas Christian University Press, Fort Worth, 1976 - Briffa Ch., Il-Letteratura Maltija: L-Istorja tan-Narrattiva, Malta University Publishing, 2008 - Briffa Ch., In-Novella Maltija, PIN, Malta, 1999 - Briffa Ch., Rhythmic Patterns in Mlatese Literature, Midsea Books Ltd., Malta, 2001 - Briffa Ch., Id-Dinja ta’ Ineż Farruġ, Klabb Kotba Maltin, Malta, 2001 - Briffa Ch., Ir-Rumanz Malti fit-Tieni Nofs tas-Seklu Għoxrin, PIN, Malta, 2004 - Galea M., Cremona V.A., Mifsud I. (eds.), Il-Kitba Teatrali f’Malta: Hawn xi Kriżi?, Malta University Press, Malta, 1998 - Azzopardi M., It-Teatru f’Malta, PIN, Malta, 2002 - Galea M., “A Study of Postcolonial Drama in Malta,” Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Birmingham, 2002 - Cremona V.A., “Politics and Identity in Maltese Theatre: Adaptation or Innovation?,” TDR: The Drama Review 52.4, 2008, pp.118 – 144 - Crow B., Banfield C., Post-Colonial Theatre, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996 - Crow B., Galea M., “The Maltese Janus: Francis Ebejer and his drama,” World Literature Today, Vol. 77, no. 1, 2003 - Anderson B., Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Verso, London, 1991 - Cassar C., Society, Culture and Identity in Early Modern Malta, Mireva, Malta 2000 - Grima A., “Dgħajjes Qodma u Maħmuġin.” Dun Karm, id-Dielja u l-Barranin, Kumitat Festi Nazzjonali, Malta, 2003 - Grima A., “Dominant Metaphors in Maltese Literature”, Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Malta, Malta, 2003 - Grima A. and MacNeil K., Gżejjer ta’ Diversità Kulturali / Islands of Cultural Diversity, Inizjamed, Malta, 2001 |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite qualifications Degree or Equivalent | ||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Josette Attard Charles Briffa Joseph M. Brincat Arnold Cassola Marco Galea Adrian Grima Bernard Micallef |
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