The course aims to introduce the perspective and specificities of Comparative Literature and to acquire knowledge of the theories and methodologies of literary criticism that have followed one another over time and that constitute a transversal heritage across different national cultures.
Having acquired these tools, attention will be focused on a particular declination of the relationship between literature and visual culture: the relationship between novel and cinema. The theoretical outlines will be familiarised with and some exemplary cases will be analysed.

Bibliography:

- Letterature comparate, a cura di F. de Cristofaro, Carocci 2020;
- Teorie critiche del Novecento, a cura di E. Biagini, A. Brettoni, P. Orvieto
- M. Fusillo, Adattamento in Cinema Letteratura, intermedialità, Carocci, 2023
- Cinema è letteratura, numero monografico di «Micromega», 4, 2023

The complete reading of a group of texts, selected from the following:

- C. Boito, Senso
- G. Verga, I Malavoglia
- A. Fogazzaro, Piccolo mondo antico

- V. Pratolini, Cronache di poveri amanti
- G. Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il gattopardo
- C. Pavese, Tra donne sole

- L. Sciascia, A ciascuno il suo
- C.E. Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
- A. Tabucchi, Sostiene Pereira