Stylistics and Textual Analysis

6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 4016669FNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

Italian

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Ann Peeters (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

13 contact hours Lecture
13 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
156 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

This course discusses the importance of the libretto writer's stylistic features and techniques when adapting a novel into an opera. Through a comparative analysis between Alessandro Manzoni's "I Promessi sposi" (1827-1840) and the operatic adaptations that were created throughout the 19th century, students will not only acquire insights in the stylistic and metrical features that characterize the novel and the opera as a genre, but also in the relationship between the contents and the author's linguistic choices within the adaptation process.

Course material

Handbook (Recommended) : Gli strumenti della poesia, Pietro Beltrami, Bologna, Il Mulino, 9788815240552 , 2012
Handbook (Required) : I Promessi sposi, Alessandro Manzoni, Milano, Mondadori, 9788828614470, 2013
Handbook (Recommended) : Manuale di retorica, Bice Mortara Garavelli, Milano, Bompiani, 9788845247507, 2003
Handbook (Recommended) : Palimpsests. Literature in the Second Degree, Literature in the Second Degree, Gerard Genette, University of Nebraska Press, 9780803270299, 1997
Digital course material (Required) : Corpus Operalibretti, Ann Peeters

Additional info

Not applicable.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

Course objectives:
- the student is able to distinguish linguistic features of different literary genres
- the student is able to analyse an opera text starting from previous anayses
- the student is able autonomously to explain the results of his/her research during a presentation in Italian
- the student is able autonomously to illustrate the same results in a high-quality paper in Italian

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
SELF Presentation determines 50% of the final mark.
SELF Paper determines 50% of the final mark.

Within the SELF Presentation category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Presentation with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Paper with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Note: Formatieve evaluatie

Additional info regarding evaluation

The exam consists of an oral presentation during which students analyse an operatic adaptation based upon "I Promessi sposi" and an additional paper that describes the results of this analysis.

Absence of a mandatory part of the evaluation leads to an absence as a final result.

Partial results cannot be transferred to the second session nor to the next academic year.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context