0000373 - COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

The course aims at: 1)making students familiar with some recent trends of world/global/planetary literary and cultural studies, with special attention to literature as part of an environment of interconnected media – and a medially interconnected environment; 2)developing advanced theoretical tools for a comparative analysis of individual texts and cultural materials from “distant” languages and contexts, thus fostering intercultural abilities and awareness; 3) having students approach literary, artistic, and creative items as complex knots of meaning in a complex world.
Honing the developing theoretical/methodological categories through practical reading and interpretive exercises, students will develop a capacity to read literary, creative, and cultural items as articulate re-elaborations of a complex and interconnected planetary condition, as well as “agents” that can foster broad cultural understanding.

Autonomy in Judgment:
At the end of the course, students are expected to articulate a self-conscious perspective on literary and cultural comparison as world-scale concerns.

Communicative Abilities:
At the end of the course, students should be able to provide sound arguments to back up their attempted dialogues among texts and contexts.

Learning Capacity:
At the end of the course, students will be expected to possess a baggage of advanced critical categories and concepts that will boost their ability to read and discuss literature, media, and culture as complex phenomena at the crossroads of different languages and experiences.