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Description
The course proposes the reading and analysis of authors belonging to the modern and contemporary period, from different linguistic and cultural areas, whose works are characterized by a focus on the relationships between the individual and the natural and anthropic environment. Dynamics of representation and narration of space, landscape and architecture will be highlighted, recalling texts of various types, from Walter Benjamin’s “Städtebilder” to W.G. Sebald’s photo-texts, from the ecocriticism of Henry David Thoreau or Rachel Carson to the ecopoetry of Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver or Seamus Heaney. Different textual forms and dynamics will be explored from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, with the aim of highlighting how the word explores the space, the environment, and the space of the page.
Objectives
Through texts from various literary genres, from prose to poetry, from essay to photo-text, the course explores how literature deals with spatial, architectural, landscape and environmental dimensions.
Sustainable development goals
- Life on land
Teaching mode
In presence
Learning methods
Lectures with seminar approach aimed at encouraging dialogue and in-depth study of texts.
Examination information
Oral during the exam session.
Reference texts will be provided during the course.
Education
- Master in Storia e teoria dell’arte e dell’architettura (120 ECTS), Lecture ex cathedra, Elective course, Elective, 1st year (3.0 ECTS)
- Master in Storia e teoria dell’arte e dell’architettura (120 ECTS), Lecture ex cathedra, Elective course, Elective, 2nd year (3.0 ECTS)
- Master in Storia e teoria dell’arte e dell’architettura (90 + 30 ECTS), Lecture ex cathedra, Corso a scelta (Arte e Architettura), Elective, 1st year (3.0 ECTS)
- Master in Storia e teoria dell’arte e dell’architettura (90 + 30 ECTS), Lecture ex cathedra, Corso a scelta (Arte e Architettura), Elective, 2nd year (3.0 ECTS)
- Master of Science in Architecture, Lecture ex cathedra, Elective, 1st year
- Master of Science in Architecture, Lecture ex cathedra, Elective, 2nd year
