Teaching Workshop: Poetry Writing Workshop
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The workshop will involve students in the activities of reading, writing and translating poetry in order to increase their knowledge of poetic language through the experience of manipulating language creatively for expressive and aesthetic purposes.
Expected learning outcomes
The workshop will allow students to hone their knowledge of the specificity of literary language with the aim of increasing their competence in interpreting and evaluating poetic texts, their mastery in writing and translating poetry, and their skills in editing poetry and poetic translations.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The workshop will open with a reflection on the nature of the poetic text, and a collaborative effort at defining it. It will proceed with a rehearsal of the tools of poetic language to come soon to the students' production of poetic texts (original and in translation) and their discussion in class by means of the sharing of critiques.
Prerequisites for admission
The workshop is open to all students who are interested in understanding the nature of a poetic text and how poetic language may be manipulated. Practices may include translating, so the knowledge of a second language is welcome.
Teaching methods
The workshop is delivered as such, that is, as a class production, analysis, and discussion of texts. Students are expected to write and present poems, translations, and brief commentaries/critiques of classmates' texts.
Teaching Resources
For reading and reference:
Mario Santagostini, Manuale del giovane poeta, Mondadori, 2017 (1988).
Stefano Colangelo, Come si legge una poesia, Carocci 2003.
Angelo Marchese, Dizionario di retorica e stilistica, Mondadori, 1992.
Mario Santagostini, Manuale del giovane poeta, Mondadori, 2017 (1988).
Stefano Colangelo, Come si legge una poesia, Carocci 2003.
Angelo Marchese, Dizionario di retorica e stilistica, Mondadori, 1992.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The workshop's results will be assessed mainly based on students' active participation in the work in class and its preparation at home, that is, their contribution to the production and discussion of poetic texts and possibly translations, as well as brief critical comments on them.
Educational website(s)
Professor(s)
Reception:
In the Fall semester (teaching period) on Fridays at 14:30; in the Spring Semester (teaching period) on Wednesdays at 14:30. Please write Prof. Loreto to fix an appointment..
Dept. of Lingue, Anglistica section, third Floor (Sottotetto), piazza Sant'Alessandro 1