16455
Graduate Course
SoSe 16: Never-ending Short Stories in Literature, Theatre and Cinema
Igor Candido Tatiana Korneeva
Comments
From classical literature to modern cinema (and everything in between), the short story is an essential part of Western culture. We will explore this genre from its origins in antiquity (with special reference to Apuleius and the Greek “novel”), and its development in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Boccaccio, Bandello, Basile, Straparola, Chaucer, Margherite de Navarre and La Fontaine), up to modern and contemporary rewritings and adaptations in theatre and cinema (Shakespeare, Pasolini, Taviani, Garrone). We will explore how this corpus of brief literary texts underwent endless metamorphoses from one author to another, one work to another, one genre to another, and, along the way, helped shape Western artistic imagery.
The course will be taught in English. Reading materials will be provided via the website Blackboard at the beginning of the course.
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Suggested reading
Bibliography:
Apuleius, Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass (after 158-159 AD)
Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron (1349-1352)
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (1388-1400)
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Decameron (1971)
Vittorio and Paolo Taviani, Il Meraviglioso Boccaccio (2015)
Matteo Garrone, Il racconto dei racconti - Tale of Tales (2015)
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13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2016-04-21 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2016-04-28 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2016-05-12 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2016-05-19 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2016-05-26 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2016-06-02 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2016-06-09 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2016-06-16 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2016-06-23 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2016-06-30 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2016-07-07 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2016-07-14 16:00 - 18:00
Thu, 2016-07-21 16:00 - 18:00