Syllabus After Dante: Italian Literature from a Global Perspective - 45166

Last update 06-09-2020

HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: Romance Studies

Academic year: 0

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Dr. Gur Zak

Coordinator Email: [email protected]

Coordinator Office Hours:

Teaching Staff: Dr. Gur Zak

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Course/Module description: The aim of the course is to explore the representation of the "other" in Italian Renaissance Literature. To that end, we will focus on two central topics: the representation of Muslims and Jews in literary works from Dante to Tasso, and the common use of eastern women as objects of desire in these works. Throughout the course we will ask whether the literary works of the Italian Renaissance contributed to the formation of modern binary distinctions between "East" and "West", or rather laid the foundation to contemporary universalist and multi-cultural perspectives.

Course/Module aims:

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: 1. Demonstrate deep acquaintance with representation of otherness in Italian Renaissance literature. 2. Offer careful contextual analysis of literary works from the Renaissance. 3. Demonstrate significant acquaintance with contemporary theoretical perspectives on representation of otherness in literature.

Attendance requirements(%): 100%

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:

Course/Module Content: 1. Dante and the Other 2. Dante - Cont. 3. Interreligious tolerance in Boccaccio's Decameron 4. Sex, gender and race in the Decameron 5. Sex, gender, and race in the Decameron - cont. 6. Passion, gender, and race in early - 7. Petrarch - cont. 8. Gender and race in Trissino 9. Ariosto and the Other 10. Ariosto - cont. 11. East and West in Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered 12. Tasso - cont. 12. Summary and conclusion

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Required Reading: Dante, Inferno, 4,5,28 Teodolinda Barolini, “Dante’s Sympathy for the Other,” Critica del testo 14.1 (2011): 177-206 Maria Esposito Frank, “Dante’s Muhammad: Parallels between Islam and Arianism,” in Dante and Islam, ed. Jan Jilkowski (New York: Fordham, 2015), 159-177

Boccaccio, Decameron, Day 1.1-3, Day 2.7, Day 3.10, Day 4.4, Day 5.2, Day 9.9. Janet Smarr, “Other Races and Others Places in Boccaccio’s Decameron,” Studi sul Boccaccio 27 (1999): 113-136

Petrarch, Trionfi, trans. Wilkins, Massinissa and Sophonisba episode Petrarch, Letters of Old Age, 2.1 Nancy Bisaha, “Petrarch’s Vision of the Muslim and Byzantine East,” Speculum 76.2 (2001), 284-314

Petrarch, Africa, 5 Joyce Green MacDonald, Women and Race in Early Modern Texts (New York:Cambridge University Press, 2002), 68-86.

Gian Giorgio Trissino, “La Sofonisba”, in Trissino’s Sophonisba and Aretino’s Horatia: Two Italian Renaissance

Ariosto, , cantos 1, 8, 17, 38. Jo Ann Cavallo, The World Beyond Europe in the Epic Poems of Boiardo and Ariosto (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013), 21-35 Pia Schwarz Lausten, “Saracens and Turks in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso,” NJRS 16 (2019): 97-126

Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, 1,4,16,20

Additional Reading Material:

Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 0 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 10 % Project work 70 % Assignments 20 % Reports 0 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 %

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