Romance studies

MIDDLE-LATIN AND ROMANCE PHILOLOGY AND LITERATURE

History of Medieval Latin literature (up to the 14th century), study of Medieval Romance languages and literature (the lyrical tradition from a comparative European perspective, the ancient novel, the short novel, odeporic literature etc.) in all its linguistic varieties (Galician-Portuguese, Occitan, Old French, the vulgar Italian language, Franco-Veneto, etc.). The latter are combined with investigation into the theory and practice of ecdotics, Medieval metrics and rhetoric, and with the history of the discipline. Studies also include modern and contemporary Galician literature (with the help of the Galician Study Centre, which focuses mostly on translation) and Romanian (the relationship with national identity, the development of the literary language etc.).

SPANISH AND LATIN-AMERICAN LANGUAGES, LITERATURE AND CULTURES

The Spanish novel between the 19th and 20th centuries; the literature of the Spanish Civil War and of the Republican exile; avant-garde poetry (in particular Surrealism); the literary and film culture of the post-Franco era; the relationship between the great Spanish-American novel of the 1960s and contemporary (in the strictest sense) narrative styles; literary translation (into Italian - colonial and post-colonial literature, Cervantes, the picaresque novel; into Spanish - Machiavelli and Beccaria); variationist linguistics from a synchronic and diachronic perspective; contrastive grammar and grammatical historiography; historical lexicography; text philology and translation analysis, focussing on issues regarding the critical editions of multilingual metalinguistic repertoires and of early translations.

FRENCH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE

The Late Middle Ages; the literature of the Reformation and the 16th century; the great literary figures of the 19th century; contemporary French and Francophone literature (with a focus on Proust); the fable in the 16th century; the poetry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; Surrealism; book circulation between France and Italy; the stylistics of the literary text; text linguistics and pragmatics applied to the literary text; the linguistics of the French verb; special languages; terminology.

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